2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask@The Magpie&Crown, Brentford, WLondon. Black colour, brown edges. Aroma is earthy and a little fishy. Don’t actually get too much out of the aroma. This doesn’t really taste that dark. Has some some light sweet caramel and then a minty menthol character, then a fishy character and then some chunder. Didn’t like this so much.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
A - citrus and chocolate
A - dark with thick head
T - sweet and sour with roasted and hoppy bitter
P - mid to full and soft
O - interesting
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Battersea Beer Festival, 13th Feb 2009. Deep dark brown appearance. Chocolate & treacle nose, quite dry and tart on the tongue. Quite thin, closer to a mild than a stout porter, but good and drinkable.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
A dark, chocolate brown beer with reddish tints and a thick beige head. A light nose, with some hop and a biscuity malt aroma. The taste is bitter, with plenty of dry hops that really overpowers. There is some smokiness towards the end. The finish is very dry. (Cask - The Fox & Hounds, Heacham, Norfolk).
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ Wenlock Arms, London. Pours a black colour with a tan head. Fruity hoppy aroma. Fruity malty and slightly hoppy flavor. Has a malty and hoppy, bitter aftertaste.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
A Mes rate: St. Albans Beer Festival 2006. Quite unusual. Seems to be having an indentity crisis. Slightly smokey and just a little too mellow all round for me. I like my porters to have a little more guts than this. More hoppy than most and a rather bitter finish. Let down mre than anything by the thin mouthfeel
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