Harry Porter and The Fair Grounds Coffee Bean
Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.18
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(On tap at Bryden’s, Jan 14 2014) Pours black with dark brown highlights and a loose frothy tan head, left loads of lace. Aroma is loaded with roast coffee bean/grounds, fairly dry with a little sweet dark malt as it warmed. Flavour initially of cold, strong dark coffee or espresso lightly sweetened, a little dark malty flavour in the middle and then coffee bean/ground flavour and moderate bitterness on the finish, really roasty and very dry overall. As it warmed, more pronounced malt sweetness in the middle along with a floral, leafy hop character towards the finish which integrated well with all the roast at the end. Body medium, fairly soft carbonation. This is a really coffee-forward beer, not surprisingly, but what struck me is how coffee bean forward it was. The aroma and much of the flavour were more like the bean than the drink. Like chocolate-covered espresso beans without most of the chocolatey sweetness. None of the ashtray-like character of some coffee porters. I love coffee, so this worked for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a dark color stout with a large dark brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of dry floral coffee undertone is quiet pleasant with light roasted malt notes. Taste is also dominated by floral coffee notes with roasted malt and light black chocolate notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. I really enjoyed this one which packs quite a lot of flavours and is well balanced without the dryness for the coffee overshadowing the rest of the ingredients.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pretty well done. Pours black with some lacing and good initial head. Strong aroma of coffee though can’t taste the fair trade. It’s all in the imagination I guess. Finishes with but bitter. Consistency a little syrupy.. Tap at barhop.