Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Not bad. Some flinty minerality, lemon peel, pine needles. Dry pale malts, Ila of hay. Drinks alright. Quite a forward minerally character.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
550ml bottle. Poured a slightly hazy medium amber colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malty, light woody hops. The flavour is moderate bitter, very light sweet, with a smooth, fresh, malty, green hop, light dry pepper spice, woody hop bitter palate. A good example of the style with some spiciness.
Theydon_Bois (46224) ticked Cosy Porter from Five Points Brewing Company 3 months ago
Gravity Cask at day 2 of the 41st Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 03/12/2025.
Black topped with a tan head.
Nose is roast malts, charr, cocoa powder, toffee.
Taste comprises toffee, fruit rinds, good roasty blast, cocoa powder.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Tidy cask porter.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Cosy Porter from Five Points Brewing Company 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Solid straight-ahead porter. Mellow dark malt sweetness, ashy roast, tooth, dry cocoa, scorched earth, woody dryness. Great condition. Highly drinkable.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Cask half at Wenlock Arms, Hoxton 25/10/2025. Stumbled on a green hop beer festival - wonderful! Clear pale amber with off-white foam. Light caramel, some citrus, grass. lightly dry. Light to medium body with fine carbonation. Nice.
330ml bottle April 2013. A cheeky tick as can't remember much about it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hand pumped at Malto, Riccione, Italy. Pours a beautiful dark brown, with some nice red reflections, and with very fine cream foam. Aroma is malty, but weak. Body is fairly light, with no carbonation. Taste is toasty, slightly bitter, and with very subtle sweetness. Final is dry, clean.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottled English "best" bitter brewed in London with what is probably the single most classic hop variety in the genre, Fuggle. Off-white, moussey, medium thick, stable, lacing head over a clear deep golden robe with orangey glow and vague olive-greenish shades; small and 'natural' disparate bubbles everywhere. Aroma of Duyvis 'borrelnootjes' and toasted peanuts, Graham crackers, old cheese rind, rusk, dry rosemary-flavoured crostini, cumin seed, Tuscany ragù stewed for hours, croissants, dried tomato peel, toasted shallot. Restrainedly fruity onset, dried apricot, roasted pumpin and tamarillo, medium carbonation with soft, smooth body; bread-crusty, rusk- and peanut-like soft-toasty maltiness, mildly bittering under a growing grassy, ever so slightly cheesy hoppiness, adding further peppery bittering effects as well as general quenching dryness. The whole maintains a perfect balance between the soft toasty bitterishness of the malts and the more spicy and outspoken bitterness of the hops. The Fuggle shines here in all its aspects, more so than it usually does (as it has a reputation for being a bit dull) and the beer in general shows no flaws, only balance, smoothness and downright tastiness. Excellent best bitter - but given that I had it from a bottle, I wonder what this would taste like fresh from the cask...
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5