Ascot Penguin Porter

Brewed by Ascot
Style: Porter
Camberley, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Gravity at Birmingham Beer Festival 2011. Thinnish. Tangy, tobacco flavour. Some sweet liquor fumes, but not enough taste.

Cask at The Hope, Carshalton. It pours deep ruby-brown, with a thick white head. The nose is smoke, plastic, roasted malt, caramel and coffee. The taste is roasted malt, liquorice, toast, charcoal, chocolate, coffee and leather, with a long dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. A robust and flavoursome porter.

Dark chestnut of hue, this beer had a slightly smokey hint, but the overall taste of rich caramel. Smooth and drinkable.

Cask, handpump @ The Market Porter, Southwark, City of London.
Bright, deepest chestnut brown that was shimmering in the light. Head was short-lived back to a thin tannish layer of suds that managed to mess up the glass as it emptied. Well pronounced aroma of chocolate icecream, burnt wood and heavily roasted coffee beans. Very dry and smoky in the mouth. Roasted, bitter grains meets dark chocolate, wood and ash. There is a peaking hop note on the swallow aiding the bitter dark malts. It shows good length as the body is quite light, but the flavour is well rounded. Chalky in mouthfeel, a building coffee note compliments. This pint sunk with such haste, sign of a great session ale. Really simple and pleasant, well made Porter.

Cask @ The Jolly Anglers. Pours ruby black with a smalk tanned head leaving lacing. Aroma is roasted malts, ashy, acidy, a bit smokey and fruity. Flavor much like aroma, some sweetness and nicely bitter. Finishes roasted, malty and bitter.

Cask. Deep brown colour with a small creamy off-white head. Aroma is coffee, mild chocolate, nuts, ashes and mild roasted malts as well. Flavour is chocolate, nuts, coffee, ashes, some roasted malts, mild toffee and also some quite big bitterness in the finish. Wellbalanced and quite dry palate.

Choc and old red wine on the nose, that black treacle hints, plus burnt malt, more tart winey notes and some dry hops on the palate. Dry burnt bitter finish.

[cask at Waggon & Horses, York] Dark almost black porter with hints of the light through it. Decent white head with a good retention. Lovely slightly smoky aromas of roasted dark malts with some coffee. Good rich mouthfeel with chocolate malt and a sour fruity finish that really cleaned the palate. Excellent beer [26022011]

Cask @ The Bree Louise, Euston NW1. Pours a black color with no head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and licorice aroma. Roasted malty licorice and chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

[Cask at The Retreat, Reading] Intriguing deep bronzey-brown colour with a moderate creamy head. Sweet coffee & cough mixture aroma. Very smooth chocolate flavour, with a big hit of roasted malt, and some leafy hops showing through. A lasting dry, earthy bitterness in the finish. Excellent stuff.