Export India Porter - Columbus
The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey, Greater London, England 🏴
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Score
7.43
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from beermerchants.com. A black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, chocolate aroma. Tastes similar, roasty, malty, chocolate, some coffee, slightly hoppy and bitter. Decent stuff as usual from the Kernel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2012
at 14:10
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle, 5.3% abv, (columbus written on the opposite side of the label), bought at the microbrewery. Devil-black body. Creamy, tan-coloured head. Sweet aroma of earthy malts. Cocoa taste with a backdrop of spices and juicy malts. Coffee bitterness to the finish. Well made, tasty beer (shared with Finn, hotel room, London 04.11.2012).
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2012
at 03:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle 330ml.Clear dark black brown colour with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, coffee, light to moderate hoppy, grass, light citrus. Flavour is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chocolate, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120813]
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2012
at 09:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, picked up from ’Jacks’ Westholme Stores’, Goring-on-Thames, Oxon consumed at home Wednesday 17.10.11 Pours black with a light beige head. Coffee and chocolate on nose and Loz said she could smell the chocolate on me, though she thought it wasn’t so apparent on the nose. Hoppy, roasty and smooth in mouth with a lovely juicy hoppiness combining well with the bitter and roastiness. Good, actually its very good. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.9
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2012
at 13:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home in London. Having read the myriad descriptions of this beer’s gushing abilities I opened it near the sink. Thankfully it was nothing more than a mild frother, and I’m happy to say I didn’t lose any beverage. The beer pours dark brown with a strong, frothy beige head. Lovely nose of rich cocoa, sticky pine and burnt grass. Light to medium sweet flavor with burnt sugars, burnt grass and wood, moderate roast, some dirt and cocoa. Medium bodied with lively, mouth-filling carbonation. Fairly dry to finish with burnt earth, wood, some bitter cocoa, grass, pine, mild roast. The condition is certainly not optimal but the beer is still good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2012
at 13:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home thanks to the beast, 28th September 2012, Roma is slightly smokey ad loads of chocolate, pours well, looks fine, the taste is too much chocolate then some hops, palate I watery, this one can’t make it’s mind up, not the best from the kernel by a long way
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2012
at 01:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home ... deep black ... small tan head ... deep roast toffee malt nose ... light roast malts ... big roast ... dark malts ... light bitter roast ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2012
at 13:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled@chriso (thanks Evin!). Deep coppery black colour with a mediumsized beige bubbly head. Aroma is ashy, fruity, roasted malts and some slight parfume. Flavour is roasted malts, some ripe fruits, mild sweet malts as well as some floral and wooden/resiny notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2012
at 14:22
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Mr Lawrence Wine Merchants, Brockley. If Vesuvius and Krakatoa combined it still wouldn’t be a patch on this gusher! Jesus! It absolutely exploded! After all the excitement (and a lot less beer left to pour in the glass) the head eventually goes down and leaves it unsurprisingly flat to leave a murky brown pour with a beige head. Licorice, fruitcake and some coffee aroma. Chocolate, sweet spice and coffee flavour. Sharp bitter edge. Bitter finish. Would love to try this without the gush.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2012
at 13:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at The Hope, Carshalton. It pours dark brown, with a medium beige head. The nose is roasted malt, coffee, pine, earth, chocolate and tar. The taste is roasted malt, charcoal, rich chocolate, pine, resinous hops and earth, with some decent bitterness in the finish. Medium body and medium carbonation. Thankfully not as lively or chunky as others have found it! A solid porter, but I preferred the last Bramling Cross version.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2012
at 06:41