Billabong Porter

Brewed by Billabong Brewing
Style: Porter
Myaree, Australia

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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30ml bottle. Thick and black as midnight with a huge coffee coloured head of large dense bubbles. Smells like a short black with a hint of chocolate in it. Lively in the mouth with wonderful chocolate flavour that dances across the tongue. Well rounded with a good body.

Poured a dark tan head that pushed right out of the glass. A little smoother than last nights porter and perhaps a little thinner in body, coffee in the taste whilst you seem to pick up chocolate along with the coffee on the nose.

Bottle, WABA beer dinner, Applecross Loads of Cardboard and medicinal off flavours, should not have been served at this beer dinner. embarrassing for the brewer and the industry

Special promotion batch at the Beer Store Morley.
Into a tallboy at just on cold, as the instructions go. Seemed black as black to me aside a translucent ruby brown showing in the extreme shallows. Creamy tannish pad formed and held its ground, lacing well as it ebbed. Bitter, roasted coffee beans and a big wad of molasses on the nose. Similar in the mouth, aggressively burnt cane sugar and bitter coffee beans, some smoke and husky, bitter chocolate (85% Lindt’s I think!). Quite charged, it really prickles the tongue giving fuel to the smoky malt flavours. Dry in back, peaking malt bitterness before a long, coffee and molasses swallow that is, to its credit, rather smooth. Smoky, bitter aftertaste draws in saliva, and it does want of another mouthful so I suppose this could pass as sessionable, maybe. A nice Porter, but not extraordinary. Some subtle complexity would make it a winner. (0564, 33cL)