Breakfast Porter (Bourbon Barrel)
Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter Regular|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Kind of odd for a strong stout. Barrel is well-integrated but I’m not sure what’s going on with the rest of this. Pours clear reddish dark brown with fizzy soda-like bubbles. Some sweet malt as well but no roast and only minimal bitterness on finish. Soft carbonation. On tap at C’est What Craft Beer Festival.
Earlier Rating: 8/24/2013 Total Score: 3.5
A very barrel-heavy beer. Barrel is overriding, and takes over a beer that I normally like. Needs a little more balance and integration here. Big bourbon aroma with wood. Light roast malt in background. Finishes bourbon sweet with some bitterness. Thick on palate. Tap at Barhop.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Draught at the brewpub, Aug 31 2013). Pours black with dark brown highlights and a decent head of pale tan bubbles. Aroma is very bourbon-forward, bourbon and vanilla sweetness, some light chocolate, fairly faint roast. On the palate the bourbon is again to the fore, rich and woody and slightly sweet, followed by dry roast malts, milk chocolate and a slight creamy oat feel and taste to the middle of the palate. Finishes with lingering sweetish bourbon atop some light roast coffee bitterness. Interesting that unlike many bourbon beers the char of the barrel doesn’t come through, only roast from the malts. Body is medium but silky and smooth, carbonation had faded by the time I got to it. This is a really nice breakfast porter, if a little bourbon-heavy. Booze was relatively hidden despite the board saying 8.5%.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A dark brown porter with a thin mocha head. In aroma, smooth chocolate with light woody vanilla notes. In mouth, a dry fruity chocolate with faint corky and woody notes, nice.