Dark Ness
Red Rock Brewery (UK) in Teignmouth, Devon, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.69
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This delicious award winning dark ale is smooth and full bodied. We use small amounts of Goldings and Northern Brewer hops to slightly bitter the beer, allowing the brave concoction of malts, wheats and barleys to do all the talking! Enjoy the powerful flavours of roasted coffee and oatmeal with overtones of chocolate, dried figs and plum.
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6/10
Tried
on 16 Aug 2018
at 20:20
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Roasted malts, bitters, zoeten, caramel, slightly sticky mouthfeel. (1-2018).
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2018
at 11:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Darts Farm, Exeter. Deep ruby black colour with a tan head. Aroma is chocolate toffee and dark roasted malts. Taste is sweet chocolate spice and dried fruit. Rich full body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2017
at 14:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle on holiday on East Portlemouth, 03/05/17. Extremely dark mahogany brown to light black with a decent khaki head. Nose is cocoa powder, toffee, chocolate biscuit, dark malts. Taste comprises chocolate cake, light roast, hint of black peppery spice, dried fruits, fruit loaf. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close. Decent well rounded porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2017
at 13:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Shared with Luttonm who got it from a friend (huge thanks!). Poured a cola body with a gushing huge fizzy head. Nice fresh aroma, coffee and lemon, balanced, pleasant with very, very ligght roastiness. Mild taste, soft malt, more chocolate than coffee, very light carbonation bite, just a light pang of tartness. Very interesting.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2013
at 16:25
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Brown bottle conditioned beer, 500ml, best before 03/2010, drank in 02/2010. Poured into a vase shaped pint glass (Old Speckled Hen), slowly because of the sediment within the bottle. Beautiful deep dark ruby red body with a huge tan coloured head, looks a picture. The thick, creamy tasting head stayed throughout the tasting, lovelly. Malts rule the roost in the smelling stakes, roasted, rich and plentiful. Smooth tasting, very smooth, deep lush malty feel to the flavours, a slight hop bitterness is in the taste but secondary to the roasted/toasted malts. Pale, Crystal and Black Malts are used in the gist, a blend of unmentioned hops with flaked and roasted barley according to the website. I can see where the taste comes from after reading that! Very impressed, would love to try this in cask form.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2012
at 13:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle from Sidmouth Wines (08/2010). Deep black colour, small head. Light, dry with hints of caramel, slightly hoppy. Reminds me of Guinness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2010
at 01:29
6.5/10
8/10/2010. Cask at the 28th Ipswich Beer Festival.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Oct 2010
at 23:00
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.Clear dark red brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, lighr hoppy, moderate yeasty, leather, horse blanket, barnyard, some smoked and wood notes also. Flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat to soft. (030508)
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jun 2008
at 01:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
BCA from Corks, Bristol. Near black with no head but cola-like carbonation. Big coffee and dark chocolate aromas. Flavour had plenty of roasted malt and fruit with a long, dry finish. Very good.
Tried
on 23 May 2008
at 17:28