Brains Craft Brewery A-Pork-Alypse

A-Pork-Alypse

 

Brains Craft Brewery in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  Porter - Smoked Regular
Score
6.55
ABV: 4.5% IBU: - Ticks: 8
A-Pork-Alypse is a double-chocolate and bacon porter inspired by the eclectic brews of the States. Made up of a grist of Chocolate, Brown, Dark Crystal and Smoked malt, with freshly grilled bacon and cacao nibs added to the boil, A-Pork-Alypse has the nose of a bag of pork scratching with flavours of delicious chocolate and smoked meatiness. This is a porky porter you’ll either love or hate.
 

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

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2013, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.Clear dark brown color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, bacon pork crackling - Kim’s pork crackling chips. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, bacon pork crackling - Kim’s pork crackling chips. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130813]

Tried from Cask on 23 Feb 2014 at 07:04


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

Gravity cask at GBBF 2013, Session 1 - London. Pours clear, red-brown with a creamy beige head. The nose has fruits and bacon along with smoked malts. Light-medium sweet flavour with dry chocolate and some bacon bits. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Dry finish with more dry bacon bits and mellow roast. Novel. Good effort.

Tried from Cask on 25 Dec 2013 at 06:46


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask @ GBBF 2013. Pours a dark brown color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty weak smoky chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor with smoky bacon hints. Has a roasted malty smoky bacon and chocolate finish.

Tried from Cask on 25 Sep 2013 at 06:41


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at Brains Bar, GBBF 2013. Deep dark brown coloured body. Not much head or lace. Chocolate malty nose with a smoked afterglow. Flavours of bacon and chocolate. Malt-porky ending. OK, but one drink was enough for a while (London Olympia 13.08.2013).

Tried from Cask on 17 Sep 2013 at 11:51


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Cask at Bree Louise. Pork and Chocolate. Hm... Firstly the aroma had a real crispy pork rind thing going on, didn’t really get any chocolate. On tasting, I got no bacon, no chocolate but very distinct rye and roasted malt flavours. Not my cup of tea at all. And made the young girl behind the bar feel "very ill" after tasting it with me. A shame as previous Brains craft offerings have been superb.

Tried from Cask on 09 Sep 2013 at 12:26


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at GBBF 2013. It pours deep brown with a small beige head. The nose is chinese-style sticky pork, bacon frazzles, light sweetness, soy sauce and toasted sesame. The taste is smokey bacon, frazzles, sticky pork, earth, mild acidity, soy and sesame. Medium body, fine carbonation and oily mouth-feel. Surprisingly it actually works. Fun to try. Nice work Brains!

Tried from Cask on 26 Aug 2013 at 08:48


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

13th August 2013
GBBF Day 1. Opaque dark brown beer, little pale tan head. Smell like a barbeque! Light dry palate, modest carbonation. Light malt with what tastes like smoky bacon crisps but without that artificial twang you get from flavouring, here it’s natural. Smooth finish. Very different and kudos to Brains form trying this. A real fun beer!

Tried on 26 Aug 2013 at 08:32


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

From cask. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. aroma is bacon, roasted malty and a hint of chocolate. Bitter, toffee malty and caramelish. Mild baconish flavoured. Roasted malty and breadish. Ends bitter and roasted malty.

Tried from Cask on 15 Aug 2013 at 01:40