Burton Bridge Burton Porter

Brewed by Burton Bridge
Style: Porter
Burton-on-Trent, England

Pours dark brown with a cream-colored head that has moderate retention. Aroma is very sweet with notes of plum, caramelized apple and black currant. No roastiness at all! Flavor is slightly sweet with a noticeable presence of bittering hops and an odd tendency toward being a Flemish red without being too direct about it. Weird. Body could go a little easier on the carbonation in the bottle. Overall rather strange, not much like a porter but not unpleasant. Eminently drinkable and surprising.

Cockney Pub, Aarhus, DK, 260408 Bottle-conditioned Rather low bitterness and a blanced sweetness. Carbonation nicely low

Handpulled cask at JDW Hatch End, Harrow. Deep red/brown with a beige head. A fresh cask in superb condition resulted in a half gallon session when I’d just popped in for a flyer. It went down like a dark mild, delicious but to be honest, it tasted pretty much like a mild too. No assertive roast, burnt or chocolate hits. Pretty mild all round if the truth be known. If it had been badged as a mild I’d have scored it 4+.

500 ml bottle from LCBO. Pours dark brown/black with hint of red. One inch of head, beige in colour, remains for decent amount of time. Small to fine carbonation, a little sour taste. Aroma of roasted malt, faint hint of chocolate.

What do you get when you cross apples coffee, malt, chocolate and hops? Burton Bridge Porter. I liked it, can’t say that I’ll buy this beer often but there’s a chance I’ll pick it up again just to see if my sense of taste is still with me. It is a very complex tasting beer to describe in under a paragraph, but that is what makes this beer interesting. It was VERY smooth going down, very easy to overlook it’s complexity because of it. In general I was very impressed. In a class of its own I would say.

Dark Ruby almost Black beer withvery tight head, the slow bubble break possibly leads to low aroma of chocolate and coffee. The mlts seem to be over roasted leading to a burnt flavbour dominating.

500ml bottle. Nice chocolate coloured pour with very little head. Aroma is a little fruity.....plumb or date-like. Similar flavours are present with very subtle coffee notes and a strong sour finish. Drinks silky smooth on the palate. Unusual for a porter but a little underrated. .

500 ml bottle. pours very dark brown with an everlasting beige head. aromas of coffee and chocolate. bitter flavours that are well rounded. a bit to thin to be great but overall a nice easy to drink porter.