XXP Porter
Luckie Ales in Leven, Fife, Scotland 🏴
Porter - Smoked Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.96
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XXP Export Porter was last brewed by Younger of Edinburgh in 1841, at a time when they were exporting to North and South America, Canada and Australia.
This beer is a full-bodied porter similar to Russian Imperial Stout. It is black, well-hopped and has an intense smoked, coffee flavour.
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Stuu (34178) reviewed XXP Porter from Luckie Ales 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, coffee, sherry fruits, taste is dry, roasted, prickly.
fonefan (85107) reviewed XXP Porter from Luckie Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 500ml. @ cgarvieuk [ Lets do a chrisO Tasting ], Edinburgh, Scotland. [ As Luckie Ales XXP Porter ].Clear dark brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, coffee, tart malt - coffee, light soy sauce. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, soy sauce, licorice, chocolate, roasted, earthy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20140315]
Scopey (25220) reviewed XXP Porter from Luckie Ales 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Slow gusher. It pours black with a gigantic tan head. The nose is coffee, earth, dark chocolate, nuts and salted liquorice. The taste is rich-roast, coffee grinds, dark chocolate, nuts, toast, salted caramel, with a dry, roasty finish. Medium-full body, high carbonation and foamy mouth-feel. Its all about dark chocolate covered nuts. Interesting, flavoursome and good depth. Delicious.
McCash (16153) reviewed XXP Porter from Luckie Ales 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A shared 50cl bottle @ allmyvinyl’s homebrew gathering. This ticks all the boxes you’d expect from the style but at this strength I’d want something that has more layers of flavour. There’s a lot of dark chocolate and coffee.
allmyvinyl (21224) reviewed XXP Porter from Luckie Ales 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle shared at home. Dark brown with a big tan head, a bit over-carbonated, and prickly on the palate because of that. Initially very fresh-tasting, but lots of toffee and chocolate and coffee coming through as it warms up. A woody note towards the end. Not bad.
stravale (3279) reviewed XXP Porter from Luckie Ales 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Beer Hive, Edinburgh [310813]
Very dark brown, bit of a gusher, huge frothy tan head, some lacing, good head retention
Aroma - Fruity caramel malts, some soft mellow roast, touch of yeast
Taste - Caramel malts, dark fruits, soft roasted malts, some liquorice, brown bread, slight coffee, alcohol very well hidden, fruity toffee, dab of yeast
Palate - Medium carb (after it had calmed down), fairly full body, smooth fruity quite sweet malts. Finish as main flavour, smooth, dark fruits, soft brown bread crust in linger
Overall - Decent Porter, palate smoother once the carbonation had calmed down.
cagarvie (40235) reviewed XXP Porter from Luckie Ales 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
bottle at home ... deep black ... thin tan lacing colapsing from big brown head ...soft dry blackcurrant toffee .... little too fizzy ... ruining it .... bitter front ... dark roast ... hint of coffee.