Mocha Porter
St Andrews Brewing (Scotland) in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.88
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A beautifully balanced porter, which starts with an espresso nose and ends with a chocolate, malt led finish. A house favourite at 6% ABV, and one to recommend to stout and porter drinkers, as well as coffee drinkers.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle picked up at Lidl’s. It pours pretty much black with a decent light tan head. The aroma is bitter - sweet, roasted malt, chocolate cake, coffee grounds, mocha and dried fruits. The taste is dry, earthy roast, toasty, wood, pencil shavings, chewy action, leather, cocoa, fruit cake and a touch of spice with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Taste doesn’t quite live up to the aroma. Pretty OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2017
at 13:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Black beer, brown bubbly head. Chocolate and malt in the aroma. Taste is the same. Chocolate, malt, coffee. It’s exactly what you’d expect but a great example of the style.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2017
at 09:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Thick black with a thin off white head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate and a hint of vanilla. Flavour is similar, quite bitter. Decent
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2017
at 17:51
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared with tderoeck. Thanks! Black colour, creamy brown foam. Rather soft carbonation. Nose of coffee, roasted malts, chocolate. Taste is bitter with sourish coffee touch. Bitter and dry. Light sweetness. Good porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2017
at 06:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as St Andrews Mocha Porter (by St Andrews Brewing (Scotland)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
20/I/17 - 33cl bottle @ tasting with Jef (home) - BB: 24/VI/17 (2017-66) Thanks to Wixie for picking up this bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, small aery beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: coffee, some caramel, bit sweet, pretty roasted, dark chocolate. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, very roasted, cocoa powder, slightly sourish, bitter touch. Aftertaste: caramel, soft roast, hoppy, some coffee, some sweet malts.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
20/I/17 - 33cl bottle @ tasting with Jef (home) - BB: 24/VI/17 (2017-66) Thanks to Wixie for picking up this bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, small aery beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: coffee, some caramel, bit sweet, pretty roasted, dark chocolate. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, very roasted, cocoa powder, slightly sourish, bitter touch. Aftertaste: caramel, soft roast, hoppy, some coffee, some sweet malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2017
at 17:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
2nd July 2015
Opaque black - brown beer, good tan head. Palate is airy and soft, very mild carbonation. Mellow dark malts, dry. Mild tang and a little dry cream. Modest coffee. Trace of dark chocolate. Dry airy finish. Pretty mellow but the dry flat palate makes it a bit of an effort.
Opaque black - brown beer, good tan head. Palate is airy and soft, very mild carbonation. Mellow dark malts, dry. Mild tang and a little dry cream. Modest coffee. Trace of dark chocolate. Dry airy finish. Pretty mellow but the dry flat palate makes it a bit of an effort.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2015
at 09:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Cork and Cask. Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head. Nose - coffee bean and a touch of toffee. Taste - lovely milk chocolate with a coffee edge. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a balanced dry coffee finish. Overall - a coffee and chocolate beer where these are well integrated with themalt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2015
at 13:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at The Rake, Borough Market, London. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a thin beige head on top. Sweet, malty, chocolate aroma. Tastes malty, chocolate, slight sweetness and rather thin.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Oct 2014
at 14:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home. Roasted coffee and chocolate on nose, taste is bitter coffee, sweet chocolate, dry, maybe a bit thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2013
at 02:54
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle at home. Pours jet black, thin tan head, little lacing. Head goes after a short time. Aromas largely on the coffee side of things, some toffee. Taste is where the chocolate starts to show through, a sweet edge, but nice roasted bitterness for balance. Slightly oily and slightly less full-bodied than I was expecting, but still very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2013
at 11:22