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Sinebrychoff Porter [Marston's]
J D Wetherspoon in Watford, Hertfordshire, England 🏴
Collab with: SinebrychoffBrewed at/by: Marston's
Porter Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.79
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Cask, Special;
The brewer from this famous brewery has visited Marston’s Brewery, Burton upon Trent, to re-create this classic beer, renowned by beer critics and drinkers throughout the world. Virtually black in colour, this is brewed using four varieties of malt (pilsner, Munich, brown and caramel), providing intense aromas of toastiness, chocolate, coffee and liquorice. It is strongly hopped to provide an impressive, bitter finish to this outstanding, complex imperial stout-style beer.
Hops used: Saaz
The brewer from this famous brewery has visited Marston’s Brewery, Burton upon Trent, to re-create this classic beer, renowned by beer critics and drinkers throughout the world. Virtually black in colour, this is brewed using four varieties of malt (pilsner, Munich, brown and caramel), providing intense aromas of toastiness, chocolate, coffee and liquorice. It is strongly hopped to provide an impressive, bitter finish to this outstanding, complex imperial stout-style beer.
Hops used: Saaz
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
15h April 2009
Opaque black beer. No head, no carbonation! Rich dark malt with a trace of dark chocolate. Somewhat stronger in tone is coffee. Smooth. Some dark fruits coming through at the end and even a little port. Complex nice beer. Some condition on it would have been nice!
Opaque black beer. No head, no carbonation! Rich dark malt with a trace of dark chocolate. Somewhat stronger in tone is coffee. Smooth. Some dark fruits coming through at the end and even a little port. Complex nice beer. Some condition on it would have been nice!
Tried
on 21 May 2011
at 10:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (handpump) @ The Bankers Draft, 1–3 Market Place, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England S1 2GH.Clear meddium to dark black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is roasted, burnt, chocolate, coffee, licorice. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090419]
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jun 2009
at 02:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Black with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with sweet roasted malt and coffee. Flavour had roasted malt, chocolate and coffee notes. Finished sweet. Not bad.
Tried
on 08 Jun 2009
at 13:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Cask at St. Urho’s Pub, Helsinki, on 2009-05-15) Black. Hardly any head. Roastedness and coffee in aroma. Full bodied and dry palate. Burntness, roastedness, liquorice, cough mixture, bitterness and smoke in taste. Burnt and bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 May 2009
at 09:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@St Urho’s Pub. Opaque black color, almost non-existent head. Licorice, cold cofffee and beans or vegetables in the nose. A bit light palate. Cold, burned coffee, toasty, roasted bitter aftertaste. Not much to do with the original. Too thin, too burned.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 May 2009
at 10:17
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask@St. Urho. Very dark brown/black colour, small brown head. Aroma is old coffee, some aspartam, dry dark fruits. Flavour is yeast, liquorice, earth, mould and grass. Mild notes of roasted malts as well.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 May 2009
at 09:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask, JDW Hoylake Lights. Black with a small muddy tan head. Roasted caramel malt aroma. Coffee and dark chocolate notes in the flavour and some hop bitterness in the finish. Predictably not as good as spoons say it is on the label, but not without some charm.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Apr 2009
at 17:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Cask at Penderel’s Oak JDW, Holborn, London, 19 Apr 2009) Pitch black colour with frothy, brown head. Roasted (or burnt), malty nose with notes of espresso, dark chocolate and ashes. Roasted, malty taste with black coffee, prunes, raisins, liquorice, ashes and a generous chocolatey bitterness in a heavily roasted finish. Full bodied, fairly sweet. Possibly not as powerful and well balanced as the original version of this beer, but still a lovely porter.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Apr 2009
at 17:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading. Tar coloured with no head whatsoever; aroma of spiced plums and ruby port; rich, purple fruit flavours with a trace of black treacle; leading to a finish that’s rather thin, but fruity and warming. Not quite as I remember the real thing in Helsinki, but pretty good none-the-less.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Apr 2009
at 09:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[Gravity cask at Back of Beyond, Reading] Pours black with a small, messy tan head. Strong black coffee dominates, with hints of chocolate. Harsh bitter finish which obliterates the flavours somewhat. There’s no hint of smoothness, complexity or subtlety here at all - the contrast with the Baron’s Bushberry Porter I’d just had couldn’t be greater. Despite being a little thinner than I’d expect, it still feels like a real spit-and-sawdust, kick-you-in-the-teeth, frontier beer - you can imagine this being knocked up in the backwoods somewhere. As such it has a certain rustic charm - but I’m still not sure I’d want to make its acquaintance again.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Apr 2009
at 08:21