Alehouse Robust Porter

Formerly brewed at Verulam (Prev Alehouse)
Style: Porter
St. Albans, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Almost pitch black. No head. Anise aroma. Dark coffee and hints of anise/liquorice in flavour. Dry finish. Quite well made porter (Half on gravity at the St Albans Beer Festival 28.09.2006)

Cask gravity at St Albans BF 09. Black. Sour edge to a choccy porter, some charcoal and smoke. almost a bretty sour aroma. I really liked it. Bit oily in mouthfeel. Interesting.

Cask gravity at Bedford BF ’09. Very dark brown. Sweet slightly citric aroma. Sour lemony taste with liquorice in the background. Some bitterness. Rather good.

UPDATED: SEP 27, 2009 Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Northampton BF. A black coloured porter with an off-white loose head. The aroma is insanely hoppy for a British porter. Fantastic grapefruit notes together with a balancing roasty note. The taste has some sweetness and lactose character. Quite fruity for its style. Some very light roast. An incredibly interesting English porter.Score 3.8
Subsequent rating scored 4.3. Average becomes 4

Cask/gravity at The St Albans Beer Festival 28 Sep 06. Coal black colour. No head. Taste of roasted malt and chocolate. Dry bitter porterish flavour.

cask at the Malting 14th annual beer festival, York: Black beer with tan head. aroma is of roasted malt with a hint of iquorice in the background. The flavor is dominated by iquorice, and I would even call this wattery iquorice juice, not porter. lacks body

Cask conditioned at Coventry Beer Festival. Black with slight tan head. A robust Porter indeed, particularly dry and tarry, with a hint of sour liquorice giving a tart finish. Heavy going but worthy of a good mark. Mouthcoating stickiness at the end.