Church End Pews Porter

Brewed by Church End
Style: Porter
Nuneaton, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Peterborough Fest. A refreshing berry and coffee toned dark ale. Decent enough, though flavours are not clean and well defined. Mild/Porter? A dark ale.

Cask-conditioned at the Hobgoblin, Reading 7/08/2011. Near black with a decent, creamy off-white head. aroma of dark fruits, coffee and milk chocolate. Flavour had a touch of caramel, more chocolate and a hint of spice, before a dryish finish. Very good.

Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’10. Black with tan head. Fruity deep porter with strong coffee, roasty notes and hints of tar and liquorice. Thick on the palate with a black wine gum note. Liked it.

Cask at NWAF 2009. A very dark brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has strong notes of roasted malt as well as lighter notes of soy sauce. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of hard roasted malt as well as lighter notes of chocolate and soy sauce, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Cask (gravity) @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester, England.
Clear medium brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, cola. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090122]

Cask at Manchester winter ale fetival 2009... Black ... roast malt little hop nose ... roast malt ... little bitterness ... little coffee.

Black with no head. Some coffee and sugars in the scent with lots of alcohol present. Slightly carbonated, some bitterness and some dryness. That alcoholic stickiness in the mouth. Lots of roasted malts with a hint of sweet chocolate.

At the brewery, as always. Pitch pint with a tan head. Smoked malt snout with some earth and hop mustiness. Just a touch of sourness and brine. Big, rounded, cocoa-accented bitterness. Decent Porter nudging towards a Stout.

Cask Handpump at the Cask & Cutler, Sheffield 23/06/2007 Fruit and slight roast aromas. Dark fruity and a little rich on the palate. Some dryness in a crisp and bitter roast finish.

Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Harbury BF. A very dark coloured beer with a dry heavily roasty aroma with some burnt malt. The taste is also dry, roasty and burnt. An Ok porter but a little uninteresting.

Attractive dark, almost opaque colour. Quite prominent roasted malt in the aroma and flavour. Just a touch of chocolate. Finishes soft and smooth, with no sourness. More like a mild than a porter really, but eminently drinkable. Cask (gravity dispense) at Peterborough Beer Festival.