Eden Mill St Andrews Seggie Porter

Seggie Porter

 

Eden Mill St Andrews in Guardbridge, Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Porter Regular Out of Production
Score
6.85
ABV: 5.2% IBU: - Ticks: 11
This is very consistent with the intent of those who brewed on the site on the banks of the Eden Estuary in the 19th Century. The Seggie Brewers back then, looked to ’make great drinkable beer for the people of the area, their visitors and friends’

Based on a classic recipe for porter which dates from the 17th Century. A blend of pale, chocolate, black and munich malt along with roasted barley and of course the more unusual brown malt. The toasty, coffee, burnt bittersweet aroma.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home in London - sourced from Royal Mile Whiskies, Bloomsbury. Pours deep brown with a fading, frothy beige head. Moderate toasted malts in the nose, some cocoa, nips of rubber. Light sweet flavour with dry chocolate character, mellow roast, further rubber notes, some dried berries, earthy bitterness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Finishes pretty well in the balance, with more dry, bittersweet chocolate, moderate roasted malts, subtle scorched earth, old leather. Maybe a little tame, but altogether very drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jan 2017 at 18:16


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle into a Chimay badged chalice at home on 23rd June 2016. Cheers Dad for bringing this back from Scotland for me. Pitch black body, wispy tanned collar for a head. Chocolate aroma and taste, fairly sweet flavoured with a coffee grains bitterness in the finish. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jun 2016 at 17:48


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Manchester Beer & Cider Festival 2016. Black coloured ale. Has decent coffee roasted malts in aroma and taste.

Tried on 02 May 2016 at 03:04


6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (gravity) @ Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival (2014), Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EL. [ As Eden Seggie Porter ].Clear dark black brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, dark roasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, roasted, dark roasted, burnt, malt bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141009]

Tried from Cask on 27 Oct 2015 at 16:17


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at the brewery. Pours black, nose is chocolate, burnt sugar, sweet, taste is thin, light chocolate, sweet, creamy.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2014 at 04:11


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Stockbridge Market. Black body with a thin tan head. Light lacing. Aroma of smoky bacon, dark chocolate and ash. Flavour of burnt toast, treacle, chocolate and slightly sour malt. Thin body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. Bold flavour but with a slightly sour finish that overpowers the ashy, chocolatey notes.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2014 at 14:46


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at The Guildford Arms. Pours clear dark brown, thin tan head. Light chocolate aromas, light milky coffee. Taste is more chocolate sweet, light roast bitter at the back. Decent.

Tried from Cask on 15 Aug 2014 at 00:18


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Six D Abz. It pours near black with a small bubbly tan head. The nose is soft roasty, earthy, toast, salted caramel, treacle and liquorice. The taste is bitter-sweet, cocoa, earth, light spice, cola, roasty, toast, umami, aniseed and treacle with a soft finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. A solid porter.

Tried from Cask on 25 Jan 2014 at 10:40


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Quite an intense coffee and roast malt aroma. That also comes through in the flavour together with light smoke, although less intensively. Body is a little thin.

Tried on 24 Dec 2013 at 12:34


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

33cl bottle - sample from Victoria at Stockbridge Market. Pours opaque black with a nice creamy fawn head. The nose is instantly liquorice and maybe even some charcoal. The taste is a little more creamy with gentle chocolate, more liquorice and some cream. The palate is probably the most impressive part of this - a really rich malt profile leads into a large but tight structure. The texture in the mid-section is still rich and very tight. The finish is elegant. Overall, a really well made Porter.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2013 at 07:01