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7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

500ml Bottle (Tegners Gömställe , Stockholm) - Black with a tan head. Coffee and chocolate in the aroma. Roasted taste with coffee, roasted malt and plain chocolate. Nice, smooth and easy to drink.

7.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Bishop’s Arms, Järntorget, Göteborg. Black colour, moderate creamy head. Moderate roasty aroma. Roasty flavour, notes of coffee. Okay.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

On tap at Bishops Arms, Järntorget, Göteborg. Pours black, beige head. Aroma is malty, some grins, caramel, dry, keeping a liquorice/dark malts nose. Taste, roasted malts, lightly hoppy background, light chocolate palate. Same base as the imp porter, a lot milder and still tasty.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught @ [ Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen, Denmark ].Clear dark black color with a average to large, creamy, excellent lancing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, burnt, hay, moderate hoppy, grass, spruce, smoke - peat. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Bitternes is burnt malt and peat. Body is light to medium, texture is oily - watery, carbonation is soft. (130608)

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle at 3 Små Rum, Gothenburg. Pours a clear, almost black body under a small, beige head. Coffeeish and roasted aroma with some fruity hops and a little licorice. A quite pleasant aroma, but maybe a bit on the roasted side. The flavor follows the same path, with coffee and roasted malt and a little licorice. Dry in the mouth, and with a long coffee-bitter and roasted finish. The beer is quite nice, but a bit one-dimentional. I respect the brewers wish to focus on the malts, keeping the hops at a low level, but I like my porters more fruity and hoppy. (080709)

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at DentatoveredeEnke, Copenhagen. Black with a cremy beige foam. Aroma & taste is roasted malts. Caramel, coffee & quite ashy taste. Little too thin palate & too sweet & buttery! OK

6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Half pint on tap downstairs at Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen. Beig foam resting for a while on a pitch black body. Smell of dark malts and sweet liquorice. Pretty much the same in flavour; the liquorice being more bitter and the malt leading more in the direction of chocolate. Medium bodied (30.05.2008).

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Black with a small but lasting light brown head. Rich aroma with licorice, wood, and some smoke. Dry roasted flavour, with that charcoal character, some smoke in the finish.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

From tap@Den tatoverede Enke. Aroma is roasted and light smooth chocolate. Flavour is roasted malt. Dry flavour and with a mild smoothness. Light hoppy and light fruity note, into a mild blackberries note.