Alengrin (11609) reviewed Poorter from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Porter with liquorish and vanilla from an Amsterdam brewing company, made at Jopen apparently. Thinnish, pale yellow beige head, quickly dissolving in the middle to a few greyish patches, but leaving a moussy rim around the glass and some dots of lacing; very dark chestnut brown robe, hazy with rusty mahogany edges, blackish in general looks. Aroma is indeed burdened with a lot of liquorice candy, vanilla shyly peeping through but becoming more confident as the temperature rises (and, strangely, the liquorice becomes a bit more subdued), both surrounded by impressions of black chocolate, lots of toffee and ’pralines’, ’kriekenjenever’ (or indeed those Italian ’Mon Chéri’ chocolates which are so familiar to Belgian consumers since the sixties), elderberry, hazelnut, fig, stewed plum, baked banana, toasted brown bread, pear syrup, blueberry jam, some very vague wet dog. Juicy onset, almost as in fig, blueberry and pear juice, sweetish with a deeper souring aspect, low in carbo and feeling a bit watery especially for a 6% porter, with residual brown sugar sweetness sticking a bit to the teeth but not obnoxiously so - as it remains balanced by this underlying dark berry sourishness. Very supple, smooth but, as said, rather thin malt middle, caramelly with a thin cereally aspect, just a tiny bit metallic perhaps, becoming softly roasted towards the end but not in a very expressive coffee-like way, gaining ’end bitterness’ more from leafy, spicy hops than anything else; meanwhile the liquorice flavor, present for the most part of the flavor ’parcours’, becomes stronger and dominates retronasally, though I feared an even stronger effect - luckily it does not become too strong to completely push the vanilla away, which comes through all the way at the back in a delicate, but eventually quite decided manner. The toasted aspect of the malt body remains thin and limited, in all, but this does befit the old school English robust porters (think Samuel Smith’s Taddy Porter or Meantime’s London Porter) - and looking at this beer in that old English way, it does deliver what it promises. Do not expect a ’new’ stoutish porter the American way: this beer knows how to behave like a porter without confusingly turning into a stout or semi-stout. Decent Old World porter basis, in other words, but as for the added flavours: I don’t care too much about liquorice and if anything should have been added, I think the vanilla alone would have done the job perfectly. Now the liquorice dominates, though fortunately not to the extent that everything else is drowned in it. Not my personal preference, this beer, but it remains true to its premise assumption - the guys who made this, had nothing but this in mind when they thought of "old-fashioned English porter with liquorice and vanilla", I have the impression. In that sense, clearly an accomplished beer, all things considered.
Garrold (11394) reviewed White Ale from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Wine Rack, Leeds. Cloudy, straw colour. Thick, dense, lasting, bright white head. Nose has orange peel and ripe banana. Spicy and yeasty. Some toffee popcorn. Taste is sweet, firstly, turning spicy and dry. Foamy mouthfeel. Fairly clean. Spicy dry finish.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Poorter from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Good yellowish tan head, very stable over deep black-brown beer. Very sweet nose, marzipan, liquorice, frangipane. Sweetish to sweet. Liquorice overdose, japwater. Some roasted malts, but not very refined. Medium bodied, good carbonation. Not to my taste.
CraftBeerNick (11005) reviewed Poorter from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home, 15th December 16. Pours black, carbonated. Aroma is liquorice, dark chocolate. Taste is liquorice, cherry, dark fruit, light not bad
DSG (25977) reviewed Poorter from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle sample at the "Farewell to Vova Shack" tasting at Stas’s place. Thanks kerenmk. Black with a nice tan head. Aroma of caramel, licorice, chocolate, vanilla. Sweetish flavor with caramel, licorice, a bit of chocolate, a bit of vanilla, and a bitterish licorice finish. Medium-bodied. OK, a bit too licorice-y for me.
Drebus (8639) reviewed Poorter from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ home. Pretty nice porter. A bit too much liquorice for me but other than that it’s pretty nice.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed White Ale from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Cloudy, yellow-ish, pale golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Wheaty, fruity and floral aroma, notes of chamomile, sweet-ish hints of banana and mandarine, some orange zest. Taste is moderately sweet wheaty and floral, minimally citrusy, notes of chamomile, hints of banana, dry, zesty hints of orange; a continuous rise of elderflower notes leads to a floral finish. Very nice.
Borresteijn (12407) reviewed Poorter from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl Bottle from Vonk. Black colour, beige head. Aroma of black liquorice, dusty malts, roast, salmiak, brown malts. Flavour is light to medium sweet, dry, roast, black liquorice, dry wood, vanilla, liquorice root, hint of toffee, dry bitter finish. Light bodied. Decent stuff, quite dry.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed White Ale from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle from a trade with Douberd, many thanks! Pours hazy pale yellow colour with a mid-sized good lasting white head. Aroma of mild and dry banana, yeast and some spices. Taste of mild banana, floral spices and yeast.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed I.P.A. from Lowlander Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle from a trade with Douberd, thanks! Pours almost clear deep golden colour with a huge most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of citrus and grassy hops, a bit fruity with resins hops. Taste of citrus, lemon, some peach, resinous bitter hops, okay!