Ox Cart Imperial Porter
Oozlefinch Beers + Blending in Fort Monroe, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.16
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Ox Cart is one of the original recipes Oozlefinch opened it's brewery doors with in 2016.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Updated Rating:
s: molasses | soy sauce | earthy grain
a: rich oily brown body | almost no head at all
t: umami | caramelised sugars | light spices at end
p: mushrooms | rich oatmeal | complex bitterness (alcohol/wood/malts)
o: sweet throughout | rustic finish | aged decently...but still strong!
16 ounce can | Whole Foods: Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia | 29-May-2020 | US$3,99 | sampled: 31-May-2025, just over five years after purchase
Score for This Rating: 5,8,8,7,7
Original Rating:
Very dark brown coloured body with a light brown glow when held at an angle - more clear than I was expecting, all with a relatively thin one centimetre tall rich brown head. Aroma of raisins, smoked peat, vanilla, molasses, soy sauce, grain, oatmeal, figs and a tiny dose of coffee. Medium-bodied; Rich roasty flavours at first with a lot of smoked peat, vanilla, earth, prunes, plums, raisins and especially molasses, caramelised sugars and some strong bittered coffee and light metallic notes and astringency. Aftertaste is relatively complex, with the prunes, raisins, fig and pitted fruit flavours showing over the oatmeal, grain and roasted malt, with a little lactose and vanilla at the tail end. Overall, a good imperial porter, but not great. Already thin, while sampled fresh and the flavours are a touch astringent and pungent, so aging should help those out (but make the body even worse, of course). I'll see this one goes as I have three reserved for subsequent years and aging cycles, but I don't think this one will improve too much. Nice-ish to try, but as a Pole, Zywiec Porter is still such an amazing beer to try to emulate, this doesn't come close. I sampled this sixteen ounce can, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 29-May-2020 for US$3,99 (canned on 09 December 2019), sampled at my house here in Washington on 02-June-2020, just four days after purchase. I'd say currently (fresh) this has a pungency of 8/10...let's see how this does in a a few years.
Original Rating: 6,8,8,9,7
s: molasses | soy sauce | earthy grain
a: rich oily brown body | almost no head at all
t: umami | caramelised sugars | light spices at end
p: mushrooms | rich oatmeal | complex bitterness (alcohol/wood/malts)
o: sweet throughout | rustic finish | aged decently...but still strong!
16 ounce can | Whole Foods: Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia | 29-May-2020 | US$3,99 | sampled: 31-May-2025, just over five years after purchase
Score for This Rating: 5,8,8,7,7
Original Rating:
Very dark brown coloured body with a light brown glow when held at an angle - more clear than I was expecting, all with a relatively thin one centimetre tall rich brown head. Aroma of raisins, smoked peat, vanilla, molasses, soy sauce, grain, oatmeal, figs and a tiny dose of coffee. Medium-bodied; Rich roasty flavours at first with a lot of smoked peat, vanilla, earth, prunes, plums, raisins and especially molasses, caramelised sugars and some strong bittered coffee and light metallic notes and astringency. Aftertaste is relatively complex, with the prunes, raisins, fig and pitted fruit flavours showing over the oatmeal, grain and roasted malt, with a little lactose and vanilla at the tail end. Overall, a good imperial porter, but not great. Already thin, while sampled fresh and the flavours are a touch astringent and pungent, so aging should help those out (but make the body even worse, of course). I'll see this one goes as I have three reserved for subsequent years and aging cycles, but I don't think this one will improve too much. Nice-ish to try, but as a Pole, Zywiec Porter is still such an amazing beer to try to emulate, this doesn't come close. I sampled this sixteen ounce can, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 29-May-2020 for US$3,99 (canned on 09 December 2019), sampled at my house here in Washington on 02-June-2020, just four days after purchase. I'd say currently (fresh) this has a pungency of 8/10...let's see how this does in a a few years.
Original Rating: 6,8,8,9,7
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on 04 Jun 2020
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