Export India Porter - Simcoe
The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey, Greater London, England 🏴
Porter Series|
Score
7.78
|
|
5.6-6.3% abv. Malted barley. This started out as a recipe based on one from the Barclay Perkins brewery from 1855. We’ve tempered the roast character of the original recipe with some chocolate and crystal malts, but the main difference is that this is hopped in the way we would hop our pale ales and IPAs – late kettle additions and dry hopping. The result is a dark brown beer that promises coffee and cocoa, but then the hops bring lightness, brightness and fruit.
Sign up to add a tick or review
8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Kernel, 12th December 2025. Pours black, aroma is roasty and cocoa. Taste is rich, roasted malts, cocoa, bittersweet
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Dec 2025
at 08:45
9/10
—
Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle. Waitrose. 5.5%. Instant new contender for best supermarket beer available. Not far off black. Beautiful tan swede. Nose is all charred citrus and bitter earthy ashy well done granary bread malts. Taste has a bitter chocolate sweetness and a good dose of charred grapefruit bitterness. Silky and full on the palate, to the tune of a nitro beer. Lingering moderate bitterness to finish. Holy shit.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Waitrose Supermarket (Various locations)
on 04 Dec 2025
at 18:27
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2025
at 09:59
8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 330ml. @ home - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏡🇩🇰 ❄☃️ [ As Kernel Export India Porter Simcoe ]. ABV: 5.7%. [20250119]. 8/4/8/4/16
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2025
at 21:26
9.2/10
—
Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from the brewery taproom. Pours rich brown-black with a tight, creamy mocha topping. Super smooth, rich dark malts, coffee, pine, baking cocoa, grapefruit peel. Medium bodied with massaging carbonation and velvety texture. Perfectly balanced finish, bittersweet cocoa, more ideal piney-citrusy hop accents. Masterclass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2024
at 23:03