Battersea Power Station Porter

Formerly brewed at Battersea
Style: Porter
London, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Toasted grain nose, sweetish. Dark clear brown color and low scumy head. Roasted malt, dry bland coffee end. Thin body and watery. Really nice example of the style and a good British beer.

Bottle from asda. Aroma is roasty and chocolate, near no hop character slightly hay like. Taste is similar, with a fairly oily mouthfeel and tar like richness, but yet still thin and goes down quite easily.

Appearance: Dark brown. Not head at all. Aroma: Smokey, malt. Bit of fruit. Chocolate. Taste: Smokey, bit of malt and fruit. Bitterish aftertaste. Chocolate. Watery. Info: 330ml bottle, 17/10-2006

Bottle at home ... Deep brown red tinge... blackcurrent and roast malt... very fruity ... light hopped ... light body ... toffee malts ... juicy ... tobaco in linger ... really drinkable

Bottle from Utobeer. Aroma of Chocolate, hops, smoke/tobacco, malts. Pours a dark brown coloured beer with a veneer of foam. Light bodided, chocolate, thin, hoppy, metal and dryness in the finish. Tobacco comes to mind and I don’t/have never smoke! Quite intersting and a very individiual porter. That said not in the top quartile.

Bottled from a London supermarket. Nice little porter, roast grain, chocolate, a little soot. Very low carbonation for a bottled beer, and if this was brewed to 5.9 instead of 4.9 it would probably be more punching, too. Not quite there.

33cl bottle from Asda. Very deep ruby/brown with thin deep beige head. Powdery choc aroma, some smoke, dark fruits, plums and blackberrries. Pretty good in mouth. Fullness of body if a little oily. Decent tingling hop on end. Overall a very likeable beer. Good intense aroma and flavours. Solid beer.

A Mes rate: 33cl bottle from Utobeer. Dull wheaty nose. Dull porter looks. Dull porter flavour, slight bit of this, slight bit of that. Not assertive enough, no real character. It has all it needs, decent malt, chocolate, coffee, bitter finish etc etc. It’s just like half a job.

Pours very dark brown with thick bubbly head. Aroma is very light coffee, sweetness and a whiff of berries. Flavor is coffee, coffee bitterness, alcohol and hop bitterness. The hop bitterness is pronounced for this style and lasts through to the bitter aftertaste. Very good, but it could be a touch maltier, with a fuller mouthfeel.

330ml bottle at The Rake, London Bridge. Nice mahogany body under a thin off-white head. Peaty and smokey smell - the beverage is actually decribed as "Beer from the smoke". Dark fruits and bitter chocolate can be detected in the flavour. Gives an industrial, perhaps oily impression (01.02.2007)