San Francisco Porter
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
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7.22
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330 ml, bottled July 24. Dark brown body, with a creamy, dark beige head.
Aroma of toast, dark bread, cocoa, some liquorice, some smoked wood, slight toffee. Tastes quite similar, with more hoppy notes and a bit more dark chocolate.
Finishes roasty, toasty, wooden, quite a lot of pine needle like hop notes, a bit smokey, slightly sweet, with some dark chocolate.
Nice, although I was expecting something a bit different as this was inspired by the classic Anchor Porter, but I don't get much similarities. Still a really quaffable, old-school Porter, with a robust character and also quite a lot of hop notes.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home, 13th December 2025. Pours a watery thin dark brown colour. Aroma is chocolate and coffee, roasted malts. Taste is bitter, coffee and cocoa, some De Ranke character comes through. Nice enough
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A clear dark brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of mild chocolate, dark malt, caramel, some berries. Taste of roasted dark malt, chocolate, caramel, hints of berries.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
0.33 l bottle at Ambasada, Zagreb. Dark brown, medium frothy beige head, diminishing. Aroma is roasty, burnt, nutty, some spice, some cardboard. Soft earthy and herbal hop notea. Hints of roasted coffee and chocolate. Smooth, light body, roasty and quite burnt, bitter chocolate flavour. Earthy bitterness. Soft texture and carbonation, finishes dry and slightly astringent.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed San Francisco Porter from Brouwerij De Ranke 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
On tap at Brugge BF. Dark brown cola colour. Lasting tan head. Chocolate. Flavour. Good flavours. Good malts. Really different in a sea of Belgian beers. Yes,American hops too.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed San Francisco Porter from Brouwerij De Ranke 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Towering greige head over brown-tinted, almost black beer. Very roasty, Maillard, roasted nuts, faint meatesters, burnt pistacchio, caramel, toffee. Dry roast, tobacco, ashes with a bitter hopflavour finish. There is a slight acidity, but more from the CO² than from real stoutacidity, I think. Cigar leaf, and more sweetness in the aftertaste, warming up. Medium bodied at best. Creamy texture, txs to the head, but the beer breathes a quite light impression. Well carbonated, all the same. I was expecting more fireworks, but somehow, it advertises authenticity on the porter front.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
0,33l bottle at home. Bottled July 2024. BB 18.07.2026. black color, medium big tan head. smells spices, soapy, toffee, earthy, light caramel, ligh sweat. ok smell. full body soft carbonation. tastes earthy, herbal, spices, peppery, light smoke, grains, soapy, ashy. finishes dry and medium bitter with notes of ash, herbs and earthy notes. interesting one, rather dry, rather bitter, I would say rather old school, reminiscence of a black IPA. pretty good to drink, a tad on the soapy side. hints of some veggies. overall nice
8, 6, 7, 6, 7
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed San Francisco Porter from Brouwerij De Ranke 6 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle from Malt Attacks in Brussels.
F: big, tanned, good retention.
C: black, opaque.
A: nice roasted tones, coffee, cocoa, dark bread, bit herbal, nutty, some berries touch.
T: medium malty base, a lot of roasted tones, bitter chocolate, nutty and caramel touch, bit herbal, long lasting roasted bitterness connected with hoppy bitterness, medium carbonation, very good, fully enjoyed.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Generous off white head. Dry. Roasted malts, some dark chocolate and coffee. Mediums body. Long lasting bitter finish.Quite pleasant
