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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Beer #5 of 17 for each day of the 2018 Winter Olympics - One for A Country Participating in the Games: #5 - South Africa While not a powerhouse at the Winter Games, great to see they have competitors and makes me long for another trip to the amazing country. Deep dark brown coloured body with a thin, very fast-dying brown head that started at a centimetre tall that goes down to absolutely nothing. Aroma of roasted malt, raisins, figs, earth, light toffee, some peat and even a dose of coffee at the tail end. Medium-bodied; Assertive raisin, grape and prune flavours at first with a bigger dose of toasted and roasted malt, some earthier flavours and a touch of apples and pears near the end as well. Aftertaste shows some light grain, a touch of the toffee, some raisins and figs along with a subdued chocolate and coffee bitterness near the tail end. Overall, a decent porter with a touch too thin body and some decent but not assertive and especially not complex flavour profile, but nice for the country and especially considering some of the other offerings. I sampled this 50 cL tall/South African styled bottle purchased from Simon's Town Bottle Store in Simon's Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 13-August-2015 for ZAR35,99 sampled at home in Washington, just about halfway around the world during the 2018 Winter Olympics just about two and a half years later on 13-February-2018.