Heavy Porter

Bottle. Color: Black, light brown head. Aroma: Roasted malt, chocolate, mocha, coffee. Taste: Very smooth, bit creamy mouthfeel. Roasted malt, mocha, notes of coffee and light notes of chocolate. Just over medium body, soft carbonation. Really nice smooth Porter.

Cask at GIST. Almost black color with creamy beige head. Aroma is black chocolate, leather, roast, walnuts. Taste is black chocolate, also milk chocolate, green hazelnuts, other nuts, a touch roast in the back. Super smooth mouthfeel, almost flat. Very, very good Porter like it should be! Chapeau!

Draught at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Porter with tightly membranous-lacing, dense, creamy, thick, tan head and jet black colour. Aroma of lots of unsugared black chocolate, cold black coffee and coffee liqueur, leather, wet toast, roasted walnuts, burnt tree branches or even charcoal, hard caramel candy, bayleaf, touches of dry earth, nutmeg, chicory, cigar ashes, beef stock cubes. Restrainedly sweetish onset with a cured meat-like umami edge, sourish undercurrent, fizzy carb, thick toasted nut- and bitter chocolate-like malt body developing more coffee-like roasted bitterness in the end, even becoming a tad ashy but nevertheless remaining pleasantly rounded and nutty with a toffee note persisting till the end; spicy hop note gives a punch at the back, accentuated the roasted bitterness. Clean in esteriness and in that sense very un-Belgian, this is surprisingly good, even if its roasted character makes it qualify as a dry stout rather than a porter – but then, both ‘genres’ are inseparable even historically so I won’t let that influence my rating here.

Cask at Moeder Lambic, pours an opaque black with a foamy, rocky, khaki head. Nose has a lot, cocoa powder, malt, toast, toast, dried fruits, cherry cordial. Flavor is chewy, roasty, caramel, coffee, chocolate, raisinette. Finishes lightly chalky, medium bodied. Pretty damn good.

F: huge, tanned, long lasting. C: dark, opaque. A: dark malts, chocolate, cocoa, bit coffee, dark bread crust, dark caramel. T: dark malts, light cocoa, bit chocolate, mocha, dark bread, bit caramel, bit lactic, toasted tones, really very good balanced, light oily mouthfeel, medium body, low to medium carbonation, what to say fully enjoyed, 33cl bottle from the brewery.

Imported from my RateBeer account as No Science Heavy Porter (by No Science):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5

6/XI/17 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home - BB: 13/VI/18 (2017-1860) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!

Clear dark brown to reddish purple brown beer, small creamy beige head, irregular, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty roasted, bit sweet, lots and lots of grains, some coffee notes, bread crust. MF: soft carbon, medium body, creamy texture. Taste: pretty roasted, bitter, coffee, cocoa powder, rather dry, some caramel malts. Aftertaste: bitter hops, cocoa powder, some chocolate, slightly sweetish, dry, very roasted, some caramel malts, slightly sour, bitter dry finish, hop bitterness.