Winter Sol
Tilted Barn Brewery in Exeter, Rhode Island, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Winter|
Score
7.47
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Winter Sol is our winter porter brewed with huge amounts of chocolate malt, and is fermented on cocoa nibs and Madagascar vanilla beans. This beer is robust with a velvety smooth finish. Perfect for those long winter nights.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home over two nights oddly. Black pour and fine head (less day two). Nose is coffee and chocolate. Tatsss some vanilla, coffee, earthy, cocoa powder some soy sauce. Creamy palate.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2026
at 02:34
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
6 oz. pour on tap at brewery. Appearance is opaque black with persistent beige ring and trace lacing. Aroma strong roasted malt—borderline char—dark/baker’s chocolate, nut. Taste is strong roasted and sweet malt, with milk/bakers chocolate, molasses. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and bittersweet finish as taste. Overall, good strength of aroma and flavor and reasonable complexity. Seemed slightly more complex than when I had it three years ago.
Tried
from Draft
at
Tilted Barn Brewery
on 31 Jan 2026
at 20:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured a pitch black color with a small tan head. Aroma was coffee, mocha, chocolate. Pleasant coffee, vanilla. Light malts, coffee, dark chocolate. Really nice.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2024
at 08:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can pours a thick black with some beige head. Nutty, malty nose. Cocoa, bread crust, cola, some brown sugar. Flavors are all the same with some coffee. Finishes full bodied but dry. Nicely balanced.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2024
at 14:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Roast and some light vanilla, caramel. Black pour with decent head. Some mocha. Bitter end. Nice balance, and great beer. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2024
at 21:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Draught at Beer Temple, Amsterdam, 14 Feb 2024) Dark brown colour, almost black, with foamy beige head. Malty, roasted nose with dark chocolate, coffee, vanilla and black bread. Malty, roasted taste with notes of coffee, dark chocolate, cacao, black bread and a balanced roasty bitterness in a dryish finish. More than medium body, quite dry. Solid and well made porter. Very nice.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2024
at 14:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home shared with Laura. Opaque black color with a medium sized light brown colored head that diminishes quickly. Aroma is malts, chocolate. Flavor is malts, chocolate, cocoa powder, sweetish with a distant lightly bitter hint. Very pleasant.
Tried
on 22 Mar 2024
at 22:10
7/10
Decent beer, a bit on the lighter side, somewhat thinner than expected. Beer temple ams
Tried
on 12 Feb 2024
at 22:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Brewery draught, 1/14/24. Dark. Tan head, moderate retention. Heavy coffee character with big earthy roast, cocoa powder and light black licorice. A bit heavy-handed on the toastiness, as that's all I'm really getting... Big coffee, cocoa, prune, pepper, licorice. Medium-plus body with some decent maltiness and good attenuation. But just a bit too much on the coffee intensity. Too much beany roast, despite the bitterness being balanced.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2024
at 19:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a pint can. Pours an almost opaque black with a small tan head. Aromas of cocoa and vanilla. Flavors are moderately bitter toasted oats.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Dec 2023
at 22:07