Iceni Brewery Ported Porter

Ported Porter

 

Iceni Brewery in Elveden, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular
Score
6.36
ABV: 4.4% IBU: - Ticks: 3
Packed with taste. A bottle of port is added to each cask.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

9th July 2008. BBE of Nov 2006! Quite a soft porter. The port doesn’t really present itself other than possibly being responsible for the pronounced fruity tone. Not too dry.

Tried on 15 Nov 2009 at 04:14


6.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

[500ml bottle from The Real Ale Shop, Priory Farm, Wrentham, Suffolk] Pours deep crimson/black, with no head at all. Big lumps of sediment at bottom. Initially tastes weak and watery before a slight chocolate flavour comes through, followed by a big wallop of damsons and sloes. The sourness of the damsons dominates unpleasantly mid-drink before the intense dryness of the sloes comes through. The aftertaste develops through burnt woody notes into a slightly smokey dryness. In fact dryness in the dominant characteristic. Despite this, I’d agree with others who have said that this should posssibly be classified as a mild rather than a porter. However, despite being quite an interesting and unusual mild I wouldn’t number it amongst my favourites. Still a decent beer though - give it a go if you fancy something different.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2008 at 17:18


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask gravity Reading BF 06. Black beer with disappearing beige head. Bit of a thin porter, I certainly didn’t get any port out of it. Some nice tarryness, just not very much else

Tried from Cask on 30 Apr 2006 at 02:32