Burton Bridge Burton Porter

Bottle (courtesy of Bradley), pours very dark with a bubbly brown head. Strong malty aroma with molasses and an alcohol presence. Quite a carbonated mouthfeel, a little watery maybe. Roasted malt flavour, quite bitter, with some coffee notes. Nice aroma and flavour, but the mouthfeel just didn’t work for me.

Pours opaque brown-black, with purplish highlights. Virtually no head. Aroma of port wine and grapes. I was disappointed in this beer at first, because it certainly didn’t fit my expectations of a porter, and I was expecting something "bigger." But it grew on me a little bit. It has a mildly sharp sweetness up front, with that nice ale mustiness hitting the back of the palate. It tasted almost like a tart tripel, though it drinks something like a wine. It’s not traditionally malty, and not very hoppy. Not great, but enjoyable in its own way.

Bottled. Pitch pour with a film of tan suds. Needs to be poured from a great height. Pungent sniffs of red apple. Flavour is plenty more of the same- roasted malt, red apple and earth. Some hop fustiness and biscuity malt after the swallow, but it’s mostly sour apple. Unporterish but quite tasty once you get used to it. Badly needs to turn up the roast and tone down the apple. CASK UPDATE. The Baron, Hinckley. Deep ruby under thick beige. Hideous spoiling stale woodsy cardboard followed by charred nuts, dab of sour, roast and lingering creamy cashew and cocoa. It really is like eating charred cardboard and molten plastic. Never tasted anything like it. Poisonous drainpour. 33356.

Cask conditioned at the Star, Bath 11/5/07. Dark brown with a slight beige head. Aroma contained hints of red fruit. Flavour was a bit subdued with some more fruit. Finish was of pronounced dryness. Ok.

500 ml bottle. Pours a dark murky brown color wih an enormous foamy brownish beige head. Faint aroma of roasted malts and bitter chocolate. Taste is carbonated with faint roasted malty hints and weak coffee beans. Very weak and not much flavor.

Dark brown, with a nice head. The aroma is pretty weak with notes of roasted malt/coffee. The flavour has discrete notes of coffee, caramel and chocolate. It’s a porter that is thinner than the average, and it’s probably a good one to start with, if you are new to stout/porters.

Bottled sample via radiomgb. Dark cherry wood brown in colour with practically zero carbonation. Aromas of dark toffee, apple, cherry, and a bit of earth and coffee. Quite a bit of chalk in the mouth, along with a bit more toffee, and some charred grains. Some faint grassy hop echos resonate on the finish. Watery, but pretty much as expected considering the carbonation level. Probably an off bottle.

well this was interesting. Not what you would expect from a porter. It was quite sweet, but a fruity sweet. Really threw me off. nice dark color, and a beige head, but the fruitiness was odd. overall a nice beer.