3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask at the Rook and Gaskill. Pours a dark ruby colour with a fair light tan head. Aroma of apricot, damson, greengage, caramel and chocolate. Similar flavours with mild carbonation and an oily mouth-feel. Interesting.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
A - dried fruit and roasty
A - dark with thick head
T - light sour and dry bitter
P - full and dry
O - good
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tasted this in the Saltcot, Saltcoats (JDW) in June 2007. Cask, handpump dispense. Dark ruby red with plum highlights and a thin white head. Slight hint of dry blackcurrant fruit. Thin mouthfeel and poor lacing. Dark malts give a rich maltloaf base with sweet black grapes, damsons, and ripe swollen brambles. Very slight hop notes in the short aftertaste but sweet fruit presence continues into the finish. Dry woody redcurrant and tart blackcurrants give a tart finish. An ok session porter
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap, pours dark brown. Aroma and flavour of stale roasted malt and slight fruits. Decent.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 3, 2011 Cask at The Harp, London. Very dark reddish brown colour, low beige head. Moderate aroma, notes of lightly roasted malts, hints of mild coffee, some vinous notes. Soft mouthfeel. The flavour has notes of moderately roasted malts and mild coffee, not very sweet.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
9th November 2007
Warning! Early amateur rating! A light porter with a subtle hint of fruit. Drinkable. Perhaps a bit more fruit would have been good.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask. Medium tan head, black body, excellent lacing. Damson, some roastiness. Bittersweet. Dry finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask.
Aroma is chocolate and soft malt, auburn, small toffee head, red at the sides. Flavour is light chocolate, some mild malt and a deep plum. Light bodied, well balanced, nicely bitter, quite drinkable. Very good.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump) @ White Horse, 2 York Street, Harborne, Birmingham, West Midlands England B17 0HG.
Clear dark red brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, grass, light nutty, light licorice, sweet sour berry - plum notes (Damsom plums). Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, light light acidic and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration, chlorine. Initial the flavor is not as good as the finish flavor is. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20100116]
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Lovely deep very dark red/brown. Really super nose, very full lots of fruit, a sort of sweet/sour fruit note in there with malty undertones. Nice full body with dark malt and a fresh fruity nip. The fruit is apparent but there’s this nice nip of sour fruit & bitterness that keeps this as a refeshing pint. The balance of the porter & fruit is well thought out, the damson is an ever present but not overpowering.
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