2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottled. A brown beer with a huge brown head. The aroma has light notes of butter and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, leading to a dry roasted finish. The body is light.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
(Bottle 33 cl) Clear, warm orangey brown with a creamy beige head. Aroma of roasted malt. Light body with a soft mouthfeel and a little low carbonation. Hard roasted malt accents and a basically absent bitterness. Pretty indifferent. 200908
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
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.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Deep coppery amber colour with mediumsized beige head. Aroma is toffee, coffee, caramel and roasted malts. Flavour is caramel, and roasted malts. Quite watery palate.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Monks Café, Wallingatan.
Dark brown (almost black) coloured with a small off white head.
Light roasted aroma of dark fruits and chocolate.
Roasted flavour of chocolate, dark fruits and dried fruits with notes of coffee.
Dry roasted finish of cofffee.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dark brown with reddish glimts and a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with butter, roasted malt and caramel notes. Flavour likewise a sweet butterish finish. Infected!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: AUG 3, 2007 Brewery Creek
Funny to see my translation from when I entered this beer years ago. At the time I was prepping for a trip to Argentina that never took place. I can safely say that when I was doing that, I never imagined that when I finally got to try this beer I would have bought it ten minutes down the street.
Dark chestnut colour. Complex, distinctive aroma of fudge, nuts, cane sugar, Mexican hot chocolate (Rey Amargo...not so many artificial ingredients and not so much cinnamon in that brand), evaporated milk (Dutch Baby brand...ok, just kidding I can’t tell the difference between different evaporated milks). Fairly full body. Relatively creamy palate, rounded out with sugars. Soft, lush milk chocolate, the maltiest Assam and yet it’s not a big, brash brew. There is a strange juxtaposition here between the full body and rich flavours on one side and on the other side the fact that everything is kind of light on the palate. Not something I see every day, that’s for sure. In the finish, a little bark-like (astringent) note detracts a bit from the overall presentation. Nonetheless, a solid porter, not an imitation stout like so many "porters" these days. I can dig that.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
660ml bottle-pours a big foamy to creamy tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate/molasses/peat, maybe some licorice, some earthy hops. Taste is dark malt-chocolate/molasses/peat, maybe some licorice, some earthy hops-with a fair amount of astringency which goes from initial thru aftertaste, medium body. The astringency reduces by the second pour then some dark fruitiness comes through. OK carbonation.
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