Silhill Brewery North Star

North Star

 

Silhill Brewery in Birmingham, Aston, West Midlands, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Porter Regular
Score
6.61
ABV: 4.5% IBU: - Ticks: 10
Darker than the mothership it lives in. Settle down in your comfy wing back chair and savour a classic hopped indulgence. We really do separate the wheat from the chaff with this warming, rich Porter, lovingly composed using de-husked grain. Not at all bitter, shamelessly moreish. Enjoy.
 

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6.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Gravity Cask at Nottingham Beer & Cider Festival 2025. Dark amber brown colour, thin foam rim and aroma of roast malt. Taste is roasty, malty, tangy, with watery & bready notes and some earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying roasted bitterness finish. Quite drinkable

Tried from Cask on 09 Oct 2025 at 16:12


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Wellington, Brum. Aroma is rich - coffee. Albeit a veg undertow. Cola brown. Opaque. Foamy translucent beige head. Flaaqise qe hae bur burnt caramel offers and a herbal and citrus edge. Light-medium bodied. Oily. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Hoppy Porter, as described. Verging on a BIPA but with sweet elements.

Tried from Cask on 28 Oct 2024 at 17:48


3.6
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 15

Cask at London & North Western (JDW) at New Street Station, Birmingham. Pours deep brown with a tan cap. Aroma: sweet-ish chocolate malts, caramel, liquorice hints. Taste: moderate sweet & bitter, smooth, chocolate malts,, caramel, treacle. Medium body with fine carbonation.

Tried from Cask on 09 Jul 2023 at 19:36


6.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Half-pint, cask ale at Figure of Eight (JDW). Remaining beige head leaving upper part lacing on the glass, deep dark brown body. Moderately roasted aromas of brown malts, bready. Mid-sweet taste profile of caramel malts, bread, and cocoa. Roasted grainy bitterness to the end. Like it. (Birmingham 15.02.2023).

Tried from Cask on 06 Mar 2023 at 08:12


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Ultramørk amber. Lavt tett skum med litt farge. Sjokoladearoma. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken rosin, svisker & kakao. Tørr, lett bitter avslutning. Litt røstet malt.

Tried on 15 Feb 2023 at 10:15


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle. Dark brown, slight ruby tinge, small off-white head, reasonable retention. Aroma is chocolate malts, light roast, semi-sweetness. Taste is sweet, roast malts, chocolate, red berries, bitter finish, very moreish. Moderate body and nice soft carbonation. There are no surprises here but it is a well made good solid tasty porter.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2020 at 01:36


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask @ The Royal Oak, Shrewsbury. Pours dark, pale tan head. Aroma has moderately sweet malt leanings. Taste is smooth, fairly rich with good treacle, faint liquorice, dark malts. Delicious stuff.

Tried from Cask on 09 Jun 2017 at 14:36


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at Cherry Reds, Birmingham. Poured a clear dark brown with a frothy light tan head. The aroma is light roast malt, some light sweet creamy caramel. The flavour is moderate sweet, light liqourice bitter with a silky smooth rich red berry fruit, light sweet chocolate, light liqourice hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Cask on 23 Nov 2016 at 16:39


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

Cask at the Old Joint Stock, Brum. Pours very dark brown with a medium head. Aroma is coffee and raw cocoa. Taste has bitter cold coffee throughout with a little cocoa.

Tried from Cask on 17 Dec 2015 at 06:29


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the Old Joint Stock; clear dark chestnut brown pour with a small frothy light tan head, roast malt and coffee aroma, taste has plain chocolate bitterness, along with roast coffee.

Tried from Cask on 23 Jan 2015 at 14:18