Chocolate Orange Porter
Tom's Tap and Brewhouse in Crewe, Cheshire, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.45
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Smooth but robust porter with the addition of orange peel and cacao nibs.
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7/10
Tried
on 03 Apr 2023
at 18:23
Tried
on 05 Feb 2022
at 12:37
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Every now and then you come across beers that you anticipated liking every much, only to find when you actually taste them, that you fdon’t like them at all ! This is one such case. Anyways, cask from Crewe Dog, Crewe (at 5.5%). Pours a very dark reddish brown with a small cream head. Not much of an aroma, just some hints of chocolate. In the mouth the overwhelming flavour is VERY bitter oranges, which swamps everything else. Unfderneath there are roast malts and hints of chocolate, alcoholic strength, aniseed and other spicese. Finish is spoicy – too spicy for me. It’s not a bad beer I just didn’t like it.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Jan 2022
at 23:01
7/10
Had to pair it with one. Decent porter with subtle orange.
Tried
from Crowler
on 25 Dec 2021
at 23:47
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Dec 2021
at 16:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample thanks to Grumbo: Poured a deep brown black with a thin tan head. Aroma is orange peel, overpowers much else, maybe a little roast malts. Taste is bitter orange peel forward, tingly spices, cacao, roasted malts.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2021
at 21:27
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
23/1/2021. Fresh crowler shared at the first Ipswich Lockdown 3.0 virtual bottle share. From Tom's Tap & Brewhouse, Crewe. Pours black with a small frothy beige head. Aroma of dark chocolate, carob, cinnamon, biscuit, light orange. Moderate sweetness and light roasted bitterness. Liked it but lacked the orange.
Tried
from Crowler
on 23 Jan 2021
at 12:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ #MBCF19, [ Manchester Beer & Cider Festival 2019 ], Manchester Central Convention Complex, Windmill St, Petersfield, Manchester, Great Manchester, England M2 3GX. [ As Tom's Chocolate Orange Porter ].Unclear dark red brown colour with a average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, sweet malt, chocolate, orange chocolate. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, dark malt, orange, chocolate, orange chocolate, fruity malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20190123] 6-3-7-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2019
at 09:49