Hacienda Cerveza Potro
Cervecería Mexicana in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico 🇲🇽
Porter Regular|
Score
5.74
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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle @ RBNAG’07. Clear red/brown body with a medium beige head. Aroma is sweet malty and slightly roasted. Flavor is quite sweet, malty, some caramel and a hint of roastiness. A bit halfway there, everywhere or something.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2007
at 13:03
4.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Thin yellowish beige head. Dark reddish brown body, barely translucent. Sweetish soapy papery roasty aroma with perfumy mosquito spray notes. Dry acidic watery burnt taste with papery vinegar notes. Did not like this. (0.5l bottle at RBNAG’07.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2007
at 14:24
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle at home ... Deep brown black ... rich slightly smokey roast malts nose ... roast malts bit thin and bit tart sour in linger ... little blackcurrent ... little caramel. It grew on me over time.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2007
at 06:55
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottled at RBESG ’07. Very dark brown, brief head. Roasty and phenolic. Medium bodied with a lemony tang. There’s notes of licorce and a whiff of smoke. The mouthfeel doesn’t hold up, so it ends up feeling thin. Finishes with low bitterness. I wanted so this beer to be good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2007
at 02:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very small yellow-brown head, gone in seconds, over near black beer. Sweet, roasted coffee and liquorice, pipe tobacco and hints of cypress. Quite aromatic but quite sweet and a bit thin (already!). Sourish taste around dry ashes and dry coffee flavour. Strange sourness, bit lactic, bit fruity-acidic, more than just the roasted grains. Quite thin body, less than one would expect from a good porter. I don’t think this half bad. I just can’t escape the thought that the lucky acidity is not intended, and that it is really too thin. Hurray for my wife bringing this back from running marathons in faraway Minneapolis!
Tried
from Can
on 30 Oct 2006
at 14:33
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle from santa - pours like coke and is even less flavorful - tastes like cocoa diluted with some really hard water - nothing more to say, really - it’s way more fun to admire the bottle than to drink the beer inside.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2006
at 21:21
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Lot 131 bottle (assume 2006 brewing), consumed on 7/2/06.
Upon opening, before even getting the stuff decanted, the first thing I note is a strong sense of stale, dead beer, highly pasteurized. The roast comes on quickly from there, with heavy vinous and charred notes drying things out heavily, but I’m not able to shake the pasteurized smell.
The beer is heavily carbonated, with very large, boisterous bubbles sitting on the edges. Head is reduced to a ring almost immediately, though is a light tan before that. Body is highly filtered and dark brown with a burgundy tint. Medium-high clarity.
The nose further develops with light soy, a hint of smoke, some bittersweet chocolate-lactic notes and a touch of spanish coffee on the end. Medium in strength, slightly carbonic, very acidic, seemingly. But aside from the heavy roasted barley and chocolate malt dryness/vinousness, it dosent have much depth. Certainly not soothing or intriguing.
The flavor suffers terribly from the high filtration, heavy artificial carbonation and pasteurization. Watery on the end, with strong, biting carbonation. The roast is somewhat resilient, adding light chocolate, prunes and heavy roast, but it just gets lost amidst the thin body and seems in stark contrast to it. Upon warming, it further loosens and I begin to get peanut brittle/peanut skins on the end.
It’s a shame they felt the need to pasteurize and fiter this, the beer is well-brewed otherwise. No alcohol apparent.
Upon opening, before even getting the stuff decanted, the first thing I note is a strong sense of stale, dead beer, highly pasteurized. The roast comes on quickly from there, with heavy vinous and charred notes drying things out heavily, but I’m not able to shake the pasteurized smell.
The beer is heavily carbonated, with very large, boisterous bubbles sitting on the edges. Head is reduced to a ring almost immediately, though is a light tan before that. Body is highly filtered and dark brown with a burgundy tint. Medium-high clarity.
The nose further develops with light soy, a hint of smoke, some bittersweet chocolate-lactic notes and a touch of spanish coffee on the end. Medium in strength, slightly carbonic, very acidic, seemingly. But aside from the heavy roasted barley and chocolate malt dryness/vinousness, it dosent have much depth. Certainly not soothing or intriguing.
The flavor suffers terribly from the high filtration, heavy artificial carbonation and pasteurization. Watery on the end, with strong, biting carbonation. The roast is somewhat resilient, adding light chocolate, prunes and heavy roast, but it just gets lost amidst the thin body and seems in stark contrast to it. Upon warming, it further loosens and I begin to get peanut brittle/peanut skins on the end.
It’s a shame they felt the need to pasteurize and fiter this, the beer is well-brewed otherwise. No alcohol apparent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2006
at 15:29