Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Can at home. Pours a rather deep brown with a beige head. Nose is dark chocolate, cocoa powder and toffee. Taste is dark chocolate, light coffee notes, cocoa powder and a faint herbal touch. Moderately bitter. Closes with a bitterish, chocolatey finish, has a light body and soft carbonation. The roasted notes were a bit over the top for my liking, but a solid porter anyway.

Tasty! Nice bitterness.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home, black beer, small head. Aroma is smoke, smoked sausage, malt, roasted. Taste is the same, very roasted coffee and roasted flavour, bitter, chocolate, very nice

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home, 12th February 2021. Pours black. Aroma is chocolate, cocoa, dark malts. Taste is smooth, roasted malts, chocolate, some cocoa and a bitterness to it. It’s good

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Honest Brew. Black body with a beige head. Good lacing. Aroma of smoked malt, charcoal and Marmite. Flavour of earth and copper. Medium body with a frothy mouthfeel. Soft fizz. Rich and smoky.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 0.5l. Cloudy, deep brown colored. AROMA- chocolate, malts, nuts, tones of licorice. FLAVOR- neutral, lightly bitter, chocolate, nuts, lactic tones. Medium bodied, creamy texture.
Very good.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap at Against the Grain, Dublin. Poured a clear dark brown with a thin broken white head. The aroma is roasty malt, light smoky ashtray. The flavour is moderate liquorice bitter light sweet with a light crisp smoky roast, dry liqourice hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, caramel, chocolate, little coffee, hop and a little liquorice. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, little bread, caramel, little coffee, little liquorice, hop, medium sweet and a little bitter.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Dicey Reilly in Ballyshannon. Appearance - dark brown to black with red chinks. Nose - toffee and chocolate. Fruitcake. Taste - toffee, molasses and liquorice. Crunchie Bar. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy rich texture that follows through the finish. Overall - a nice complex porter.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

From tap. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty, chocolate. Dark roasted malty and bitter dark chocolate. Lingering dark malty. Roasted and breadish. Bitter and chocolate finish.