3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draught @ Black Heart, 3 Greenland Place, Camden, Camden, Greater London, England NW1 0AP.
Clear dark black brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, marple syrup, light wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chocolate, marpl. Body is medium to ful, texture is creamy nd smooth, carbonation is flat. [20120813]
3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft at Brewvival. Brown color, tan head. Aroma is maple and vanilla. Taste is sweet maple with chocolate and vanilla.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Nitro draught. Pours a near black color with a moderate tan head. Nose has a hint of maple in there, but there isn’t too much to it. Taste is actually a little sweet with just a hint of roasting underneath. Too far away from a traditional porter for me.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Appearance:
Dark browns with black inclinations – that moment just before night covers the world. Lovely crema head fades into a thin collar bordering a carefree puddle. Swirls with no lace.
Nose:
Maple and dry earthen nutty Swiss chocolates. Dark stone fruits. Smooth and creamy. Freshly picked cherries in the middle, the darker the better.
Palate:
Maple and cherries amidst a moist soft chocolate cake of decadent award-winning proportions. The mouthfeel is like velvet – divine. Cream and dark stone fruits in the middle with delicate maple accents. Rustic finish with campfire smoke and burnt wood. Slowly grows some bakers chocolate in the breath as she warms up. Silken.
Final Thoughts:
Made with maple from Mary’s Maple Trees, this Brewmaster’s Reserve from the classy gents and dames at Brooklyn Brewery was liquid sophistication and gentility. Dark wooden rooms, tendrils of cigar smoke, a snifter of Mary’s Maple Porter, and life is indeed good. A newbie of sorts to the craft beer world, Mary is in no way new to beer and her attention to quality and detail I feel and tasted will bring another level of awesomeness to Brooklyn Brewery.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
I was surprised and really happy to taste this beautiful maple porter from draft during my visit in NYC last week. I tasted loads of American craft beers. Many good, some ugly but this maple porter was the best of the whole trip.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft at mad mex shady side. Pours black with an inch of khaki foam. Slight sugar note on the nose. Bigger maple notes on the nose but it’s a little cloying for my taste.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Pours a dark near black with a pale light head. A nice sweet flavor. This is a great porter.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap at Flying Saucer, Sugar Land
Pours a deep black with a thick body and a nose of light pecan and faint maple. Flavor is semi-assertive maple with pecan bits. Oily on the tongue. Not bad.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sample @ Stockholm Beer & Whisky 2012. Pours hazy dark brown, almost black, with a small frothy beige head that leaves a small trace on the glass while quickly dissipating. Smell is sweet and malty with sweet dark bread, milk chocolate, toasted malts, maple syrup, wood, sweet liquorice candy and hints of acetone. Taste is sweet, tiny bitter and malty with sweet dark bread, lemon zest, wood, maple syrup, burnt cokkies, bitter chocolate, sweetened coffee and roasted malts. Mouthfeel is round, tiny astringent, tiny watery and light to medium bodied. Finish is sweet and bitter with roasted malts, burnt caramel, maple syrup, wood, lemon zest and hints of hay. Nah...
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
SBWF 2012. Black beer with a brown head. Chocolate aroma, cocoa, licorice, figs, hay, solvent notes. Cocoa flavor, coffee, spicy, solvent notes, thin bodied.
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