Conwy Telford Porter

Brewed by Conwy
Style: Porter
Conwy, Gwynedd, Wales

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Bottle, at Kookfest, September 2006. Bought from a wine shop in Conwy. Quite light brown colour - rather pale for a porter (although this is supposedly a Victorian style porter and porters in those days were certainly not the quasi-stouts that are more familiar now). Very interesting aroma. Tart fruit and a distinctly funky farmyard element to go with a light toasted malt presence. Quite dry and bitter, with a decent balance of earthy hops and light malt. There’s also a vague citrus presence and a nice sharp catch on the finish. An interesting beer all round. I enjoyed it but I can see how some wouldn’t.

Bottle. Blackish brown beer with a fairly strong head. The aroma is sweetly roasted, and the flavour is lightly bitter with a gentle malty and dry finish. Overall a reasonable malty and dry beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

UPDATED: FEB 3, 2012 (500m, Bottle) According to my ’stats’ I drank a lotta Porter last year , that’s fine but on pretencious conclusion Americans do this style with more finesse and overall slickess , while bottle conditioned UK Porters are often somewhere between homebrew’ish and infected and like something brought back by time machine from Dickenien tavens. Now that is cool in one sense of sentiment but I know which I like drinking more. <br.> A beige head above dark brown, dark tart fruit and coffee nose and palate , grimey and rustic offering .

(Cask at White Horse, Parson’s Green, London, 26 Nov 2011) Black colour with frothy, beige head. Roasted, malty nose with notes of liquorice, caramel, burnt sugar and ashes. Malty, fruity taste with dried fruit, liquorice, roasted malt and a gentle coffee bitterness in the finish. Medium body, fairly dry. Nice and tasty porter.

Cask at NWAF, 2011. Dark brown pour with a reddish tint, no head. Vanilla, a little sweet spice aroma with some light coffee notes. Coffee, vanilla and roasted malt flavours. Classic porter taste. Malty, dry finish.

Bottle. Pours a brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Sweetish malty chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

cask at cloisters ... thin tan head ... soft roast malts ... nice soft roast ... some chocolate ... some toffee but bit light on flavour ... decent but a bit light

Bottle. Very dark brown with a beige foam. Aromas are coffee, berries and earthy peat notes. Oily with dark chocolate. Caramel with herbal liquorice. Flavours are sweet molasses with chocolate. Roast malts with light vinous notes. Bready yeast with bitter dark chocolate. Fruity and herbal on the finish. Nice.

Cask @ The Rake, London. Dark brown with ruby highlights and thin head. Sweetish malt on the nose with dark fruits and chocolate. Slightly more roasted in flavour with underlying chocolate and fruit. Malty finish. Perhaps lacking balance of a quality porter.

Bottle from Conwy Fine Wines. Slightly wonderful aroma juggling finely sieved cocoa powder, ash, plum, bramble, seaweed and sweet red apple almost like a Belgian yeast strain is working its magic; iron, grain and chocolate like a schwarz once the head has gone. So ruby it might as well be black; good thick tan collar, subsiding but freckling the glass with lace. Mellow, insinuatingly lactic and ashy; notes of plum, burnt pistachio and smoked almond. Slippery and fine with a deadly absence of alcohol. Charcoal and milk. Slightly disappointing the complexity and fruit promised by the aroma doesn’t quite materialise, but hey. I’m having a bit of a rave about a Welsh beer. Better than good.

A Mes rate. Bottle at Duff’s.
Rich amber with a good off white head. Sweet and sickly yeast snout. Similar flavour. Hints of caramel, some sugary malt. Lots of yeast. Faint chalkiness. Nothing special.