7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Clear tawny amber with no head. Subtle but pleasant aroma of floral hops and sweet malt. Beautiful mouthfeel: velvety carbonation with medium body. Excellent taste with tangy foretaste (peaches?) leading through a rich taste with caramel and raisin to a nice long, but not too intense, bitter finish. Overall, a very good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2010
at 06:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From a 330ml bottle on 6/6/2010. Pours extremely dark with almost no head. Aroma is roasted malt, berries with a bit of coffee, caramel and toffee. In the mouth, its both tart and sweet, quite fruity (raisins) and malty, with some noticeable warming alcohol and decent bitterness at the finish. A solid porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2010
at 21:39
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Straw-coloured with a large white head. Very high bead. Light honey, citrus and coriander. Taste is lolly sweetness under a fair whack of citric bitterness. Somewhere between Cooper’s red and green but a bit watery. Muddled finish has some stone fruit and some lemon dishwashing liquid. This would be OK with a seafood basket in a sunny beergarden - but what wouldn’t?
Tried
on 28 May 2010
at 05:20
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark red brown, poor beige head. Sweet malty aroma with some sweet-shop spice and grass. Complex and rather sweet dark/ stewed fruit malts (prunes, raisins, figs) and nuts with solid "tidying-up" bitterness that lingers to the finish. Hints of iodine there too: this is quite Welsh-tasting. Cockles, laverbread (seaweed) and black pudding would be a good match here.
Tried
on 16 May 2010
at 07:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours orange/amber with a stunning large head.Nose shows some resinous and piney hops, with hints of citrus as well. Some crystal malt is detectable but there’s also a faint grainy note.More resinous and juicy-fruit hops show as flavours, along with mroe caramel malt, but unfortunately the grainy character is more pronounced.Carbonation is a little strong, emphasising the cheap grainy-ness.
Tried
on 15 Apr 2010
at 03:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours black with a small head.Rich aroma of dark chocolate, raisins, molasses, tar and cinnamon. Very complex, very rich!Roasty flavours with not much of the aforementioned complexity. Some cocoa shows. Still, nice enough and manages to be quite rich.Nice rich body with low carbonation.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2010
at 02:13
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Pours copper with a large off-white head.Nose is quite malty, with caramel and faint nutty notes. Some lemon is hiding in the background.Similarly rich and malty flavours with more nice nutty notes, but there’s an off-putting stale metallic grainy finish.Could do with a bit more carbonation.
Tried
on 17 Mar 2010
at 00:31
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very dark brown, tan head faded to nothing quickly. Roasted and caramel malt, vanilla, prunes. Taste is sweet with some citric sourness and (heh) umami - I see others have mentioned soy sauce. Alcohol sticks out a bit. Not as inviting as porters usually are - perhaps that’s my fault for drinking it on a hot night, but for some reason I usually like mid-strength porters and stouts pretty well in the heat. [score 2.5] This time 10C: much colder than I’d normally drink a porter, but there are a few Australians in this style that seem better colder. And so is this: there’s a little bit of roasted bitterness early that lends some presence and cuts the sweetness a bit. Some of the aroma disappears in return.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2009
at 04:41
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
Pours clear amber, pillowy light beige head. Nose has cereal malts, citrus. Some spritz on the palate. Mild but lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2009
at 03:34
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Cloudy copper, smallish light tan head. Can smell bready malts and pine/ spicy hops.The malts are sweet and just there for support. Mouthfeel is somewhat yeasty. The bitterness is nicely integrated - it’s clearly hoppy, but in an elegant way for this style. There’s bitterness and grapefruity astringency but it’s not "bitey" More to the EPA end of IPAs in taste if not alcohol content.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2009
at 04:40