English Ales Black Prince Porter

Brewed by English Ales Brewery
Style: Porter
Marina, California USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Cask at Toronado. A pitch black beer with a bubbly brown head. The aroma has notes of chocolate and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of milk chocolate as well as medium notes of roasted malt, leading to a lightly bitter finish. Very smooth mouthfeel.

Cask at Toronado, San Francisco. Transparently black, small creamy head. Aroma of tobacco and licorice. Sweet with rounded malt profile. Salmiac dominates flavourwise. Some roasty malt flavours, and a little bit of molasses. Low bitterness. English style hoppiness is paired with American style clean malt profile - I’d rather have the opposite.

Very dark brown colour. Ligth chocolate aroma with maybe a hint of brown malt. Really light body but somewhat creamy with a toffeeish softness. Mainly toffeeish sweet in the flavour. Decent but not very complex.

Tap at the Fish Hoppers Restaurant in Monterey, CA. Pours dark brown with ruby glints and a big creamy light tan head. Nice chocolate aroma. Near med body. Flavor is chocolate, smooth burnt malt, and a light, light touch of coffee with some herby hop. Finishes nearly dry and nicely bitter.

Cask@ Edinborough Castle, San Fransisco. Pretty soft and easy going as a lot of English porters tend to be. Softly toasty/roasty, with some salted licorice in the finish. Pretty decent.

Draught at Toronado (handpump sans sparkler). Head is mostly diminishing. Body is dark brown. Aroma is moderately malty (roasted grain, caramel, chocolate), with notes of plum and vanilla. Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation. Pleasant if a bit ordinary.

on cask at the edinburgh castle in san francisco. i wasn’t feeling the best which may have been the reason i couldn’t really get into this beer. a bit thin and flat, light instant coffee and traces of plum but no real finish, got pretty boring by the end of the glass

Pours from a 12 oz bottle an eclipse black color. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is chocolate and coffee, with a touch of roasted malts and cardboard. A medium to light bodied porter. Malts are chocolate and coffee. Slightly spicy hops. Dry crisp finish. Lighter flavored porter. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is dry and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter

Draft. Dark ruby brown with a big beige head. Roasty aroma. Roasty, low hop flavor. medium-full body.

On cask at Toronado. The black body was topped with a light khaki head. The aroma was coffee and earthy mushrooms. There was also a little bit of leather. The taste was leather with some coffee and cola. There was also some light milk chocolate.