Porter
Hyouko Yashiki No Mori Brewery (Swan Lake) in Agano, Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
Porter Regular|
Score
7.02
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22/10/2024. Draft at Craft Beer Market. Toranomon, Tokyo. Pours dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma is dark chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, prunes, ash, touch smoky. Moderate sweetness, medium roasted bitterness. Medium body, smooth, average to soft carbonation. Decent porter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Keg at pub Edo. Dark red brown colour, small beige gold head. Aroma smoky and a bit spicy, some fruit. Classic porter smell. Taste, bit dark chocolate malt, some spice, little prickle. Bit of vanilla. Very nice. Rerate May 2013 at Gar Eden. Maybe more cafe au lait this time. Smooth. Aroma is bitter coffee. Nice creaminess again. One extra taste point but not much else changed.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draft at Swan Lake, Tokyo. Black with a ring beige head. Aroma of roast, dark chocolate, coffee and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at the Swan Lake Pub, Edo. The aroma is roasty, light caramel, charcoal. The flavour is moderate to light sweet, with a light, roasty, charcoal, ashtray palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Lots of coffee, very bitter. A little phenolic. Smooth finish. Some cherries maybe. Too bitter for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Aldgate as Aldgate Porter. Still not 100% sure if this is Swan Lake or Sankt Gallen. Pours dark brown, small beige head. Medium roastiness, dark chocolate, coffee, sweetish. Medium bodied. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml @ Nøgne Ø
Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, chocolate, coffee and funk. Taste is medium sweet, light bitter and light sour with a long chocolate, coffee, funky and sourish finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Don’t know if the tartness are intentional but it’s pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at Pub Edo. Dark chocolate, malt, molasses and coffee aromas present. Fairly well-balanced between bitter and sweet. Medium bodied with a slightly creamy mouthfeel. Once it comes to room temperature fig and prune flavors are also present while the chocolate and coffee tastes are still present. Nice smooth finish with some espresso bitterness. --- Beer merged from original tick of Swan Lake Porter on 16 Feb 2016 at 14:43
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft to a plastic cup @ Nippon Craft Beer Festival 2014. Pours dark brown with a small layer of foam. There is definitely some roasted malts and coffee in the aroma. Taste is also multi-layered - at first there is more sweet malts and fruits, following by drier and more roasted aftertaste. Feels quite light for a porter but is quite enjoyable nonetheless. Dark fruits and coffee. Good beer in winter, would go well with pork dishes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft - Coffee roast and chocolate. Jet black with a decent beige head. Rich dark chocolate with a bit of coffee. Very nice drinkable porter.