RVP (Robust Vanilla Porter)
Great North Aleworks in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
7.01
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft: Poured a black color porter with a medium size off-white foamy head with good retention and light lacing. Aroma of roasted malt with some black chocolate notes and light vanilla notes. Taste is also a mix of vanilla and roasted malt with some black chocolate notes and vanilla notes. Body is a bit light with good carbonation. Enjoyable porter with good balance overall.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can, from Cambridge Wine & Spirits. Pours dark brown with ruby highlights, spongy tan head, faint mocha aroma, low carbonation, bitter roasted malt-mocha taste, very faint vanilla flavor, thin body, long finish. Robust indeed!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a nice near black from a tap. Big sweet vanilla aroma and flavor, a little cloying. Good beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at the source. Clear bright maroon color light tan head. Big vanilla aroma. Taste is vanilla on a background of dark roast coffee
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at Barley House, 12/9/17.
High clarity in this dark mahogany beer, with dark maroon highlights and a small, dark beige head atop that recedes quickly to a ring.
Light and thin in the nose, it right away seems a bit overdone on the vanilla and nor does the vanilla smell particularly natural (just extract it seems). Hard roast, some husk/malt astringency and very little base malt.
Fizzy, light, thin, undermalted body with syrupy chocolate-vanilla notes throughout. A bit fake and cheap tasting, with an undermalted body and texture.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from can dated 10/2/17 black with brown tinges and a tan head. Aroma is roasted malt chocolate vanilla. Taste follows aroma not overly sweet or too much vanilla. Decent. --- Beer merged from original tick of Great North RVP (Robust Vanilla Porter) on 19 Mar 2018 at 18:50 - Score: 6. Original review text: 10/2/17
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz can bought in NH. Clear dark brown pour with a tiny beige head and poor retention. No lacing. Smooth and semi-creamy dark lager flavor. Vanilla is subtle mixing with dark chocolate notes. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can from the beer store in nashua. Big black pour with a pillowy head. Smells mildly of vanilla. Robust flavors but never over the top. However, I do detect some urges to become imperial. Remains well behaved. Has shades of chocolate in the end. Not bad for a dark beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
12oz can thanks to Grant. a light dark brown to black. small head. Smells decent. Vanilla and cocoa are there. vanilla on first taste. Very thin body, a little chalk, finish is weak, watery and thin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Thanks, John! "johnnnniee") Can. A- Vanilla, chocolate, brownies. A- Black color, black liquid, tan head. T- Vanilla, cocoa, roasty, P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, sweet finish. O- When they say robust vanilla, they mean hold on to your taste buds because they will be blown away with vanilla. At first I thought it might be a bit much, but as I drank it, I really enjoyed what it offered. Quite possibly the most vanilla forward beer I’ve had and yet remained balanced. Tasty no doubt.