Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Flag Porter 1825 Original from Darwin Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2003 bottle. Pours a wonderfully clouded deep brown with some muddy greys, a tinge of orange-violet in there too. Small tan head that sticks around. Aroma of strong yeast, dark fruits, and some sweet molasses/brown sugar. Begins with a pleasingly challenging yeast flavor that is mildy sour, mixed in with some dark caramelized brown sugar and prune flavors. Wininess that is reminescent of Taddy Porter (but not as strong). Mouthfeel is perfect; creamy, smooth with a touch of zing through the bottle conditioned carbonation. Medium-full body, didnt find as much roast throughout the body, but more of an alcoholic/dark fruit baltic porter flavor. As it warms and finishes there is a more classic light coffee and chocolate malt flavor that lingers. This was a superb porter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours deep red-brown, with little carbonation (minimal light tan head). Dark fruit, toast, and chocolate aroma. Rich, complex flavor was impressive: chocolate, tobacco and dark fruit with a nice roasty finish. Bitterness is minimal, allowing malt complexity to shine. Relatively thin body and also pretty flat. A solid, tasty porter.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Hammonds Porter from Darwin Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Cask) Jet black; slim greige head. Faint dark malts nose, some chocolate. Sweet-and-milk stout flavours, at the same time as roasty bitterness. medium-bodied, texture is thinner than the mouthfeel, but still OK. Nice porter. Was a headcracker to find out who brewed it. Thanks to Jeremy Gray.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5
Brown with large lasting tan head. Tinny roasted nose and flavor. Very little body
crit200 (5324) reviewed Killer Bee from Darwin Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
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omhper (44752) reviewed Cauldron Snout from Darwin Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottled. Opaque very dark brown, no head. Chocolatey and richly malty Notes of port and salty licorice. Soft and medium sweet with balanced bitter finish. An excellent smooth warming stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
As with all other dark beers, you need to let this one warm up to truly have all of the flavors come out. Somewhat chocolate flavor with a wonderful roasty, coffee-like finish. Not as good as Fullers or Anchor porter, but certainly damn close to them.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Richmond Ale from Darwin Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brown-amber colour; rich creamy head. Nice hop and malt aroma; good hop, herbal. Rich body, well malty, smooth; very pleasant balance of a residual sweetness and a light smokey taste. Good palate, nice mix of hop, sweetness and smokey.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Flag Porter 1825 Original from Darwin Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
The instription on the bottle does indeed say Brewed with 1825 yeast salvaged from a sunken vessel in the English Channel using an original 19th century recipe. While the latter part of that statement is not too hard to accept, come on. How much yeast could have been on that boat for them to still be bottling it? Regardless, this was a very good beer. This was an easy-to-drink Porter. Not as good as the other Porter related to a sunken ship (The Edmund Fitzgerald of course) but still robust and nutty. The palate was hard to describe, as it managed to be mellow and slightly bitter at the same time. Pours a deep dark brown with a quickly diminishing head. A warm, earthy brew. Very good. Hope they find another ship full of this one.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Flag Porter 1825 Original from Darwin Brewery 24 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
light brown colour, a dusty, sooty malt aroma and palate, which is quite dry throughout. This beer, along with a couple of other traditional examples, uses the original brown malt, which defined the original porter style, but disappeared until very recently.