London Style Porter
Propeller Brewery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter Regular|
Score
7.00
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Based on a 200-year-old recipe for Porter, a brew whose popularity changed English beer-making methods in the mid-1750s. A dark full-flavoured beer but smoother and less bitter than stout. Made with softened water, Propeller London Porter is a blend of pale, roasted and chocolate malts, hopped with English and North American varieties.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
22oz bomber graciously gifted by JoeMcPhee. thanks a lot Joe. Poured into a small tulip glass with barely any head that lead to barely any lacing, just a small thin crescent off-white lacing. Pitch black beer. Aroma is a full rich coffee with hints of chocolate. From what I consider a London Porter (with Fullers as the standard) this does a nice job of recreating the aroma. A good roast coffee aroma. Taste is not as rich as the aroma. Watered down coffee with sweet cola flavors. Slight coffee bitterness flavors in the aftertaste. Low bitterness, very drinkable medium-light body.
Stamped 2nd week of December, year unknown.
Stamped 2nd week of December, year unknown.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2007
at 20:03
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This Porter poured a really dark reddish / orange with a nice tan head. SCents of molassass and cocoa with a little spice and ripe fruit. First sip was a little watery but still very good. Roasted malts were strong with a little chocolate flavour and hopps thrown in. Finish was roasty with lingering cocoa.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2006
at 20:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color porter with a medium dark brown bubbly head with average retention. Aroma of roasted malt with a hint of chocolate and coffee. The roasted malt with a subtle undertone of chocolate and coffee also dominates taste. Body is medium full and carbonation is low. Very good example of the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2005
at 14:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Dark brown color with some red tinges. Milk chocolatey nose, light milk chocolatey mouth, slightly creamy and a dry finish. Maybe this bottle was a bit old, but I found this beer very average, especially considering how much I like their ESB.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2005
at 08:34
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
It’s been ten years since I summered in Hali. Ah...Pizza Corner how I miss you... actually my favourite pizza joint was this ultra dirt cheap place ’round the corner from Propeller on that fine strip of ghettopia known as Gottingen Street. It was like six bucks for a medium three topping pizza - I mean stupid prices. Sure, you had to dodge crack heads to get there, but it was worth it. I even convinced them to deliver to the south side a couple of times...til they realized they were losing money by the time they crossed the commons.
John Allen had just opened and hadn’t made porter yet, but that Pale and ESB were sure staples, both at the Economy Shoe Shop (boy that place lost its way) and later from the IGA on Quinpool. When eventually the Porter launched and found its way to my doorstep, I was in da Big Smoke. Now it finally arrives in Lotusland at ye olde Brewery Creek shop for another go around. I gave it a 3.4 in that original 2001 rating.
It has a dark brown colour. The aroma at first shows a predominant chocolate character, and this leads then to two distinct things - a powdery brown malt character and a pungent dark malt acidity. Could a porter aroma be more quintessential? Smoooooth milk chocolate character, again with a subtle brown malt note and an almost lactic sourness. Hey, if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. Full body, soft and sweet. A velvet brew. Absolutely gorgeous porter. I bought it for a trip down memory lane but to hell with that, this is one of the best and most authentic porters I’ve ever tasted. Wow. This reminds me of the year-over-year improvements I saw in Denison’s Weisse...the result of many years of constant fussing is evident here and that, quite frankly, is the only way to make world-class beer.
John Allen had just opened and hadn’t made porter yet, but that Pale and ESB were sure staples, both at the Economy Shoe Shop (boy that place lost its way) and later from the IGA on Quinpool. When eventually the Porter launched and found its way to my doorstep, I was in da Big Smoke. Now it finally arrives in Lotusland at ye olde Brewery Creek shop for another go around. I gave it a 3.4 in that original 2001 rating.
It has a dark brown colour. The aroma at first shows a predominant chocolate character, and this leads then to two distinct things - a powdery brown malt character and a pungent dark malt acidity. Could a porter aroma be more quintessential? Smoooooth milk chocolate character, again with a subtle brown malt note and an almost lactic sourness. Hey, if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. Full body, soft and sweet. A velvet brew. Absolutely gorgeous porter. I bought it for a trip down memory lane but to hell with that, this is one of the best and most authentic porters I’ve ever tasted. Wow. This reminds me of the year-over-year improvements I saw in Denison’s Weisse...the result of many years of constant fussing is evident here and that, quite frankly, is the only way to make world-class beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Dec 2001
at 23:07