Antares Porter

Brewed by Antares
Style: Porter
Mar del Plata - P. de Bs As, Argentina

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottle: Smokey, burnt coffee and dark chocolate. Toasted malts, bitterness.

Bottle. An little off-white ring of foam on top of a redish dark brown body. A little sulphur on the nose and in the taste. Rather yeasty and not very malted considering the attempted style. Barely any roasted flavours. Instead I got grainy malts and a caramelized fruity taste, berries-like. Pleasant medium body and medium carbonation. Drinkable beer but just not what I expect from a porter. Confirms that the most I can expect from an Argentinean porter is to carry my luggage.

Bottled at Pappa Deus, Buenos Aires Reddish mahogany color, medium off-white head. Aroma is sweet, of burnt sugar, smocked, with notes of peach, wood, caramel and coffee. Flavor is sweet, smocked, a bit salty and with a sticky texture.

Drank this beer in the Antares brewpub in Bariloche (Argentina). Had the sampler of the different beers on draught. Malty,and very nice thick head.

Bottled. Dark brown, rocky head. Spicy licorice aroma. Medium dry, fairly hoppy, notes of aniseed. Clean flavourwise with roasty fairly bitter finish. A well made porter.

UPDATED: OCT 10, 2007 Re-rate: Sweet chocolate aroma has plenty of cocoa (or ovaltine?) and a biscuity character. Opaque darkest brown/black body is topped by a decent tan-cream coloured, fine bubbled head that lasts nicely. Plenty of chocolate flavour up front is undercut nicely by a subtle but building dark malt bitterness that lingers on into the aftertaste. Medium body with creamy texture and moderate carbonation. Tulip glass. Cellar temperature. Bottle (BB 04/08, Brewery Creek, Jul-07). I’m glad I resampled this one. Original rating replaced. Original Rating (4-1-4-2-7=1.8) Huge buttery diacetyl overwhelms the aroma though some caramel, chocolate and roast can be discerned. Clear brown body topped by a low tan head that recedes instantly to the slightest ring. Butter, cardboard, chocolate and roasty flavours don’t blend well. Mild bitterness cuts off the aftertaste. Medium body with slick texture and somewhat syrupy due to fairly low carbonation. Bottle sampled at the post-Mondial tasting 2006.

A great tasting porter on draught! Beautiful black murky thick body. Excellent light brown head which is mostly lasting. Bitter-light flavour to start with, nice creamy lively roasted chocolate malt and then a good long finish with chocolate and that warm feeling from the alc. (hadn’t eaten before I tasted it).

Nice labels on these bottles. Cold coffee aroma and a touch of peat. Thin but lasting skiff of foam. Seems to be a consistent house character to the Antares beers. More prune than chocolate in the flavour. Some smoke in the taste and a smokey burn in the finish.