 gnoff (2586), Göteborg, Sweden
Aug 12, 2006
(Sampled from bottle, thanks Marsiblursi) Black color with a huge brown head. Beautiful! Smoke, tar and chocolate, salty scent. Burnt rubber, metallic, sweet, thick, chocolate coffee, burnt and bitter, old coffee, very dry taste. Makes your mouth water when you look for bitterness. Thick body! Extremely complex!
SilkTork (3882), Rochester, Kent, England
Sep 1, 2008 Chris_o’s GBBF Shindig August 08. Oxidised aroma and apples. Full mouth experience, but not overwhelming. Smooth and coating. An alert chocolate and coffee experience. Milky. Full on and quite pleasant - just pulls short of being too intense. Drinkable.
cgarvieuk (2385), Edinburgh, Scotland
Aug 21, 2008 Bottle at Chris o’s…deep black,oxidised roast malts,sweet rich malts some chocolate, litte spirit, quite smooth
Mes_and_Sim (4360), Highgate, Greater London, England
Aug 10, 2008 A Mes rate: Bottle at Chris O’s Pre GBBF Tasting
Firstly hats off to Casey for pulling off the surprise of the day with this one. A 2005 bottle of something very rare and very special indeed. Nice one mate. Stunning appearance. Black as night with an amazing light brown head. This is three years old now and the signs of age are showing in the cheese and oxidisation in the aroma. Lots of treacle malt and alcohol too. Clearly old. The flavour... f**k this is fantastic. All that I know and love about the old Ølfabrikken Porter plus some lovely sour wooden notes. Full of chocolate malt and caramel. Loads of toffee, chewy as hell. Again some slight oxidisation but the age has really enhanced the flavour where as it was starting to kill the aroma. Superb bitter palate with a gorgeous sourness at the edges. Thick, creamy and perfectly carbonated. A very very good beer.
harrisoni (5129), Ashford, Kent, England
Aug 4, 2008 Bottle at Chris_o Pre GBBF Shindig 08. It’s a little oxidised in the aroma. Yes, it’s got good choc, yes it makes me feel good and puts a smile on my face. Any better than the regular porter? No I don’t think so.
KimJohansen (3351), Copenhagen V, Denmark
Aug 3, 2008 Black with medium brown head. Sweet and vinious aroma with with roasted malt, burned caramel, coffee, chocolate and alcohol. Sweet flavor with fairly hard roasted malt, coffee, liquerice, bitter chocolate and vinious notes. Very smooth.
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