Salem Porter
Batemans in Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire, England 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.58
|
|
A porter with a dry roast, nutty palate and rich malty aftertaste. Award winner at CAMRA’s Great British Winter Beer Festival 1997.
Sign up to add a tick or review
6.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear dark red brown color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, milk chocolate, vanilla. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (180108)
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Feb 2008
at 02:16
6/10
—
Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
[Cask at Wenlock Arms, London] A pitch black beer with a bubbly brown head. The aroma is sweet with an acidic touch of roasted malt as well as light notes of chocolate. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of chocolate as well as light notes of diacethyl. The mouthfeel is very smooth.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Feb 2007
at 02:55
4.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Half pint on cask. Almost black body without any head. Not much aroma for a porter. Watered mouthfeel. Dark fruit and bitter chocolate in a rather dull sense of taste (The King’s Arms, Norwich 24.09.2006).
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2006
at 01:58
5.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at The Kings Arms Norwich 24 Sep 06. Pitch black. A disappearing head. A watery porter with a weak roasted bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Oct 2006
at 13:51
7/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Cask at Wenlock Arms, London, 30 July) Colour is black with some ruby notes when seen through light, frothy beige head. Nose is roasted with chocolate, tobacco and wet ashes, a bit modest actually. Taste is roasted with chocolate and tobacco, some citrus as well. Some sweetness but mainly dry. Balanced bitterness in the finish. Medium body. Not very complex, but a nice porter. A long time ago the first cask conditioned porter I ever tasted was Salem Porter, which really was a revelation for me, so I still retain fond feelings about this beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Aug 2006
at 15:05
6.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask gravity dispense at Chequers, Wareside, Herts. Very dark brown/black, no head. Bit like an old ale, quite sour with prune fruit flavour. Some raisin. Quite a lot of flavour on the finish. A proper sour porter. Sour prune finish. Odd, but good to have. Bit of coffee throughout too.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Mar 2006
at 11:10
6.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Flat beer with a slight coffee tinge. Generally a dark version of a bitter in terms of both flavour and appearance.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2002
at 15:08