Director's Chocolate Porter
Heart of Darkness Brewery in Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast, Vietnam 🇻🇳
Porter Regular|
Score
6.99
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A soft, dark porter base infused with Vietnamese cacao nibs. Dark brown, almost black, in colour. Cocoa powder and dark chocolate on the nose. Flavour of rich, dark chocolate with a touch of tart, deep red berries. Finishes long and smooth with a hint of roast.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 7
Penang > Singapore rail excursion: a small bottle from Antarabangsa off-licence, Georgetown, drunk in the hotel just down the road. Aroma: only lightly aromatic, roasted, some coffee. Appearance: opaque cola, negligible head. Palate: medium-bodied and slick, carbonation is unexpectedly fizzy, the finish is rather abrupt. Taste: well-roasted with some sweet notes; not very chocolatey but some coffee flavour comes through. This one leaves no lasting impression and is rather lacking in character.
Tried
on 08 Feb 2026
at 06:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Utseende: Sort.
Lukt: Kaffe, bek, lakris, røsta malt, mørk sjokolade.
Smak: Kaffe, lakris, røsta malt, mørk sjokolade, vanilje.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum.
Medium: Rating:8-8-8-8-8=8, Flaske@330ml, ABV@6.3%, Når@2025.04.01.
Hvor: Taps Beer Bar, Kuala Lumpur
Navn: Director's Chocolate Porter
Stil: PORTER
Bryggeri: Heart of Darkness Brewery
Lukt: Kaffe, bek, lakris, røsta malt, mørk sjokolade.
Smak: Kaffe, lakris, røsta malt, mørk sjokolade, vanilje.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum.
Medium: Rating:8-8-8-8-8=8, Flaske@330ml, ABV@6.3%, Når@2025.04.01.
Hvor: Taps Beer Bar, Kuala Lumpur
Navn: Director's Chocolate Porter
Stil: PORTER
Bryggeri: Heart of Darkness Brewery
Tried
from Bottle
at
Taps Beer Bar : Changkat
on 01 Apr 2025
at 11:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is roasted, chocolaty, some alcohol, and mild toffee. Flavour is fruity, toffeeish, roasted and some chocolaty tones and some mild alcohol tones.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2023
at 22:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
--Bottled, from Beer Bank, Kuala Lumpur. -- Black, rich firm head. RIch chocolate aroma. Mid dry with solid body and rounded mouthfeel. Chocolate dominate, but no cakeyness, more dark pure cocoa. Mid bitter finish. Not complex at all, but rather elegant and decidedly full flavoured.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2022
at 16:38
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at Beer Hunters. It's years when I last time had a beer from Saigon. Toasted, coffeish and ashy aroma. Medium-bodied. Coffeish, chocolaty, ashy flavour. Some licorice hints too. A bit sweet, not much on hop side. Okish.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jul 2020
at 18:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle 330ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts 2019 Tasting ] - Kermis House - Zaandam, Netherlands.
[ As Heart of Darkness Director's Cacao Nib Porter ].
ABV: 6.3%. Clear dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, chocolate, cocoa, sweet malt, dark malt, moderate roasted. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, sweet malt, chocolate, cocoa, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20190926]
7-3-7-3-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2020
at 10:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled at Borefts Pre-Tasting 2019. Dark brown color, small beige head. Aroma is a bit dodgy I'd say. Flavor is malts, brown malts, dark caramel and rye notes. 6-3-6-3-13
Tried
on 21 Dec 2019
at 18:10
7/10
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Tried
on 19 Oct 2019
at 18:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at pre borefts tasting. Pours deep brown, nose is liquorice, roasted, toffee, taste is similar, earthy. 6/4/6/3/13
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2019
at 08:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Dark brown color with beige head. Aroma is cocoa, chocolate, nice character. Taste is cocoa, chocolate, on the sweet side, simple but good. Silky mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Alright.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2019
at 11:14