North Star Porter
Facer's Brewery in Flint, Flintshire, Wales 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.55
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At 4.0% alcohol by volume North Star is very black and very tasty with the traditional smooth porter palate of treacle, liquorice, toffee, chocolate and toast.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask, third pint. @Nottingham Camra Beer Festival, Nottingham (England). 10/10/2024 [#7.842 Global - #41 Wales - #1 Facers Brewery (My Welsh brewery #21)] Pours dark brown with a bubbly head. Aroma: tobacco, liquorice and roasted malts. Taste: tobacco and roasted cocoa beans. Roasty palate. Next one, please!
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Nov 2024
at 12:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours very dark brown with a large head. Aroma is dey roast, coffee and a little chocolate. Taste has smooth roast, coffee and milk chocolate. Dry yeasty roast finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Oct 2024
at 17:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7
11/10/2024. Cask at Nottingham Beer & Cider Festival 2024. Pours very dark maroon brown with a small bubbly/frothy off-white head. Aroma is light roasted malt, chocolate, liquorice, toasted, caramel, dried fruit. Moderate sweetness, body and roasted bitterness. Oily, soft carbonation, slightly watery, but overall good for its abv.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Oct 2024
at 14:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
[February 2023] Dark brown, near black, with a reddish tinge and a creamy tan head. Chocolate malt and a roasted earthiness combine, some sweetness up front, on the thin side but smooth with hints of coffee and a subtle bitterness in the finish
Tried
on 10 Oct 2024
at 10:15
Historic check-in
Tried
on 06 Mar 2023
at 06:06
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Vine, Wednesfield. Pours a dark reddish brown with a small cream head.. Roast malts in the nose with hints of vanilla. In the mouth it has a creamy texture with malts and Olde English Spangles, plus traces og coffee and dark fruits. Finish is dry – with added treacle. Reasonable but not a world beater.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jul 2021
at 18:34
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask pint @ Corn Mill, Llangollen on an extremely hot May bank holiday afternoon. Pours dark, small tan head. Woody, roasty nose. Taste is smooth with chocolate and tobacco roast, light on the palette, initially quite tasty but becoming a little thin and lacklustre mid-way through. Still, not a bad cask porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 May 2018
at 19:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On cask at the Ship. Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head. Nose - light creamy mocha aroma. Taste - burnt bread and charcoal. Chocolate liqueur. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a fairly elegant finish. Overall - good porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Aug 2017
at 11:02
6/10
Tried
on 27 Feb 2016
at 13:47
6/10
Tried
on 10 Apr 2015
at 17:09