Old London Porter
Bowtie Brewers in Watford, Hertfordshire, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.28
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Inspired by early Victorian London Porters. Expect complex flavours of dark chocolate and biscuit reminiscent of chocolate digestives. Deep and dark, smooth and malty.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
Gravity cask at the 28th St Albans Beer Festival, 26/09/25.
Deep mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that soon thins.
Nose is cocoa powder, dark malts, dried fruit rinds.
Taste comprises tangy fruits, artificial sweet notes perhaps chocolate, mellow roast, brown bread.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Okay if a little muddled and not a natural flavour profile being picked up.
Deep mahogany brown topped with a beige cap that soon thins.
Nose is cocoa powder, dark malts, dried fruit rinds.
Taste comprises tangy fruits, artificial sweet notes perhaps chocolate, mellow roast, brown bread.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Okay if a little muddled and not a natural flavour profile being picked up.
Tried
on 26 Sep 2025
at 11:48
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
26/9/2025. Cask at the St Albans Beer & Cider Festival 2025. Nice pour. Aroma is dark chocolate, liquorice, ash, caramel, dark fruits, plastic edge. Touch of aniseed. Quite drying, roasted finish. Old style porter. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2025
at 11:06
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gravicask, half-pint at St Albans Beer & Cider Festival 2023. Shared with Finn. Ruby-black body, spotty lacing, declining fawn-coloured head. Plain chocolate malty aromas, smoothly roasted. Moderate chocolate malty flavours, hints of earth and liquorice. Rather short dark malt-driven end, roasted. Decent, slightly anonymous though. (St Albans, 27.09.2023).
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Oct 2023
at 18:30
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
På St. Albans Beer & Cider Festival 2023. Delt med Rune. Svart. Luftig skumring. Lett sjokoladearoma. Smaken tørket frukt. Tørr - bitterløs - avslutning.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2023
at 16:51