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Flag Porter 1825 Original

Percentile
88
overall
Brewed by Elgoods
Style: Porter

Wisbech, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4543.53/5.03.51/5.05%86.3English pint, Stem glass
Commercial Description:
Available in bottle
Contract brewed by Elgood for BrewLab/Darwin.
Full bodied porter, hopped with Kent’s hops.

Flag Porter is brewed from a traditional 19th century British recipe using yeast salvaged from a vessel which sank in the English Channel in 1825. In 1988, several bottles of the brew were raised from their resting place 60 feet deep in the Channel. They were in their original containers, with their wood stoppers and wax seals intact. When opened, however, they "tasted like old, wet boots" according to Dr. Keith Thomas, renowned brewer and microbiologist. When he examined the beer under a microscope, he found a small percentage of the yeast to be still living! After months of growing this yeast, he brewed a porter using an 1850 recipe. Adhering to the practises of porter brewers of the era, Dr. Thomas uses barley and hops grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
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 thegreenrooster (1818), St.louis, Missouri, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/515/20
Aug 11, 2006  
Pour is a almost black a small amount of light shows through. Aroma is some chocolate with a bit of hops in there. Flavor is there in a nice way Lots of chocolate and coffee with some vanilla in there. Leaves a burnt flavoring on the tounge. $2 a 11 oz bottle is kinda pricy but this is to tasty to pass up.


 bitbucket (2031), Kirkland, Washington, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Aug 4, 2006  
Bottled. Pours a clear dark brown with garnet highlights and a thin tan head that provides some lace. The aroma is sweet with molasses, toffee and chocolate. Creamy medium body with moderate carbonation. The taste is lightly sweet with roasty malt molasses, chocolate and a spicy coffee finish.


 pinkzambia (989), Boise, Idaho, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/515/20
Jul 12, 2006  
Bottle: Dark, dark brown with a mahogany hue when held up to the light. Sweet aromas of dark chocolate and alcohol. Rich, malty, smoky, chocolate covered espresso bean flavors as well as alcohol. The hops presence is minimal. It has a smooth and creamy aftertaste even though it has a thin feel. There is also a tiny twang in the aftertaste. The story of the yeast and brew recipe is pretty cool!


 Skip (206), Indiana, USA
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/519/20
Jul 4, 2006  
Skip’s favorite porter...wish I could find it on tap. As the beer warms to a proper temperature, the aroma of molasses overcomes a somewhat non-descript sweetness. Flavor is full and the mouthfeel is all that one can ask of a quality porter.


 puzzl (2601), New York, New York, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/104/514/20
Jun 7, 2006  
Sweet, brown sugar and molasses aroma. When the beer was cold, the aroma was very deep and intruiging, with all sorts of different sweetness a nice cover over roasty malts and english hops. Lost as it warms a bit, though. Pour is brown with little head. The flavor is well balanced and quaffable, good hopping (perhaps german), and chewy with little sweetness, though is very unassertive and offers little complexity.


 Veeve (312), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/102/59/104/518/20
May 20, 2006    Updated: May 21, 2006
out of the bottle. deep, milk and dark chocolate brown. no head. a few bubbles in thin disrupted lines around the rim. arom aof caramel and strongly of vanilla. flavors of sweet, strong caramel malts, semi-sweet chocolate, roast, vanilla. finishes fruity like a pear, banana, cherry mix. good carbonation throughout. the palate is like soda but with some viscousity.


 decaturstevo (1980), decatur, Tennessee, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/514/20
May 18, 2006  
A burnt malt and chocolate aroma. A taste of toasted chocomalt. A smooth beer with a good palate. The thing I like about this beer is that the longer you sit between sips it seems to release subtle flavors. A slight sweet with a good bitter. I rated it at 3.4 on my initial glass but as it warmed it changed and I felt that I hadn’t given it enough credit.


Modminks (6), lafayette, Louisiana, USA
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
May 9, 2006  
My Favorite beer. I can’t say enough about Flag Porter’s delicousness. I pours a dark with a creamy head. The aroma is of old nuts and wheat. Tatste is like medium with a half bodied matlyness. It feels great going down much like Mackeson XXX Stout. I describe it like drinking milk sortof.



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