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Flag Porter 1825 Original

Flag Porter 1825 Original - Porter

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 Percentile 
88
overall
Brewed by Elgoods
Style: Porter

Wisbech, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4533.53/5.03.51/5.05%86.3English pint, Stem glass
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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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 Lowe1983 (1029), Fairborn, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Jul 7, 2008  
Pours a dark brown color with a tan head. Aroma is chocolate, molasses, slight coffee, and roasted malts. Flavor is pretty light with everything I expected from the aroma. This would be a pretty good session beer.


 jzzbassman (838), New Albany, Mississippi, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/102/511/20
Jul 7, 2008  
Ruby colored with a nice coffee and malty aroma. Flavor is thin bodied and tamer than I expected from the aroma.


 Cletus (5004), Connecticut, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 5, 2008  
I’ve been wanting to try this beer for a while and finally stumbled across it at a grocery store in MA of all places. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Smells of chocolate, coffee, roasty, some peppery splashes. Tastes slightly bitter with some sweet milk chocolate and full bodied. The malt profile is a bit disappointing on this one. I was hoping for some lactic hints and some burnt molasses, neither of which are present in this beer.


 astrofrk (218), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/518/20
Jun 27, 2008  
Flag Porter 1825 Black-Ruby. Nice head. Aroma: Chocolate, roasted malt. Flavor: Chocolate malt, roasted coffee. Coffee finish. Sweet. The Origional Porter!


 lithy (1600), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/101/57/103/514/20
Jun 19, 2008  
Nice black pour with a thin tan head. Roasty malt in the nose and a very tame (traditional) taste of roasted malt and hints of chocolate bitterness in the finish.


 carruthm (1112), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20
Jun 8, 2008    Updated: Oct 17, 2009
Dark color with smoke and malt aromas and a chocolate malt taste. Very good beer.


 Alldaydrinker (558), Norwood, Massachusetts, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
May 26, 2008  
12 oz bottle. Pours an opaque ruby hued dark brown color with a small head that dissipated quickly. Nose is dominant of cocoa powder and light roasted malt. Initial taste is very sweet almost too much before the cocoa powder begins domination just like the aroma. Mid palate display touches of roasted malt. Finishing sweet, cocoa and minor balancing hops. Body is light and thin. Head retention and Palate duration is average. A drinkable porter but nothing special.


 BuckeyeBoy (1645), Boise, Idaho, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
May 25, 2008  
12oz bottle pours out a dark brown almost black with a little red. Almost no head. A nice aroma of wood roast malts and sweetness. Tast of light smoke roast malt and a touch of sweetness. A pretty good porter.



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