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Brewaucracy
Brewed at Liberty Brewing

Style: Porter
Hamilton, New Zealand

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RATINGS: 1   MEAN: 3.7/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.88   IBU: 31   EST. CALORIES: 147   ABV: 4.9%
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A classic English Brown Porter, with a complex grist featuring "old skool" Brown Malt. The vanilla is a tahitian vanilla extract, and was added at conditioning time. This allows us to tweak the vanilla blend and ensure that it’s present without overwhelming the base beer. Taste testing of trial batches has shown that this is a tricky thing to get right, with female tasters seemingly having a bit of a "blind spot" for the vanilla flavour, and instead focusing on the chocolate and coffee notes of the base beer, but with males finding there to be too much vanilla! We think we have it right. The beer is 4.9% abv, and presents with a milk chocolate nose, wrapped in warming vanilla and coffee.


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   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
jimthechap (787) - Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND - APR 12, 2012
I had the distinct pleasure of having a pint of this beer this evening. Indeed, myself and my off-sider were pleasantly surprised by a nice nutty, vanilla aroma that carried chocolate, some coffee and vanilla again through the palate. Not the most handsome brew to look at as it seemed dark, cold and had very little head (had off tap at Pomeroy’s). For a beer that carried an unusual flavour this was remarkably sessionable and we went for seconds quite readily. Mention is made in the preamble of milk chocolate and it was definitely there, but once the big, desserty biscuity flavours mellowed the beer still carried enough flavour mid-pint to make the beer remarkable. One I will definitely return to. Thoroughly enjoyable.


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