7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Mes Tasting. Pours cloudy brown with a creamy head. Medium roast malt nose with heavy toffee and caramel. Quite a sweet flavor, has some sweet cocoa, light coffee, mild bourbon, some wood. Medium to full in body with fine carbonation. Finishes sweet, warming, has some wood, ripe fruits, lightly dry. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2011
at 14:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ 27th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2010, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, EnglandClear medium amber orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, sharp hay - grass, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, orange - citrus, citrus, hop oil. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, peel bitter, dry, bitter bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20101130]
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jan 2011
at 14:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 330ml. @ ChrisOs - Christmas Tasting.Clear medium brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate malt, dark malt, Menno malt, light barnyard notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, dusty, dark malt, Menno malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20101228]
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2011
at 13:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask conditioned at the Bree Louise, London 11/1/2011. Deep amber with a decent off-white head. Sweet, malty aroma with some nuts, fruit and a touch of roastiness. Flavour was much the same, with plenty of caramel and chewy malts before a decent, bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jan 2011
at 23:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From cask at Bree Louise. Pours clear and golden deep orange to brown with a small white head. Aroma is roasted malt, quite hops fruity: pine and grapefruity. Citrusy, grapefruity and roasted malt flavoured. Bitter and fruity finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jan 2011
at 08:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask, Duchess of Kent, Islington. Golden looks with a smallish off white head. Aroma was on the restrained side and had notes of fragrant hop and citrus. Flavour had similar traits in addition to biscuity malts. Dryish bitter finish. Pefectly drinkable but lacking any real va va voom, as a certain charcter who used to haunt these parts might have said.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Dec 2010
at 12:15
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ 27th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2010, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, EnglandClear medium to dark black brown color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted to burnt malt, dry roasted malt, moderate chocolate, licorice notes. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101130]
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Dec 2010
at 01:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Kernel as LBA Porter. Very black colour with a thick tan head. Chocolate coffee and fruit on aroma. Smooth and rather lovely in the mouth. The liquorice edge is rounded off thankfully. Lovely intense aroma. Clearly a lot of everything went into this. Rather big thick and lovely in the mouth. Good choc on the swallow and on into the finish. So is it any good? Yes. Shame it was a one off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2010
at 12:15
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask gravity at Pigs Ear 2010. Black dark beige head. Lovely hoppy porter. Plenty of something like east kent goldings and very good choc. Lovely beer. Slight kick on end. Lovely
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Nov 2010
at 07:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask, Jolly Butchers, Stoke Newington. Dark reddish brown colour with a small tan head. Coffee, malt and fruit protruded the nose. A smilar story in the flavour with some chocolatey notes. Fairly restrained bitterness in the finish. A pretty good fellow.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Nov 2010
at 10:00