Elland 1872 Porter

Cask@26th Burton upon Trent Beer Festival. Very black beer with a strongly coffee aroma and a strong, dry and very coffee like flavour. Overall a nice dry coffee tasting beer.

Chocolate, malty, roasty, lightly sulfury, chewy, coffee-like aroma draws you in. Clear, darkest mahogany body with ruby tones. No head. Chocolate and intensely roasty malt flavour with some notes of soy, liquorice. Medium-light body with no carbonation. Cask on gravity pour at GBBF 2005.

On tap at GBBF 05. Now then, here’s a good espresso aroma. Extremely strong coffee flavour - intense. Very good indeed.

Cask at GBBF 2005 Dark brown. Tar and chewy malt on nose, liquorice, burnt malt in mouth. Very tarry with a thick finish. Re-rate. Cask handpull at Ship & Mitre, Liverpool. Wonderful beer. Black beer, thin dark beige head. Deep flavours, incredible aroma of dark malts, charcoal and some dark fruit. Full and velvety in mouth if a tad sour with long finish. Excellent beer . Some sour dark plum/damson fruit

bottle. deep dark brown coloured body and a medium mocha head. raisin and dark fruit aroma with mild chocolate notes. astringent roasty coffee and chocolate. bitter finish. pretty good.

Nose is chocolate/coffee, deep brown, hints of red at the edge of the glass. Nice tasting mix of treacle, coffee and chocolate. Medium bodied, dry finish, and bitter. Really good beer. I wish I could say who shared this?

Cask@Kingston Beer Festival, London. This was the first beer i tried at the festival. Quite a rich one to start off on. Very rich roasted and bitter, with some dark chocolate, mocha and aniseed. Very long roasted bitter finish. Nice one.

[Cask at Volunteers Arms, GBBF 2004] A red-brown beer with no head. The aroma is very sweet with notes of caramel, roasted coffee, and chocolate. The flavor is of roasted malt, coffee, and alcohol.