Flag Porter 1825 Original

Brewed by Elgoods
Style: Porter
Wisbech, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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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.

Fantastic Beer!!! Dark, almost black in color. Aroma is rich. The taste is as rich as the aroma yet you never feel full after drinking it. The best part of the beer is that it is a distinctive porter not a watered down stout.

Hey guys....Just because this is not an IMPERIAL stout with 8-12% alcohol does not mean that it does not deserve nearly perfect scores. This is a damn near perfect porter. 2nd to Synebrychoff Porter from Finland.

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.

UPDATED: FEB 26, 2005 Flag Porter is brewed from a traditional 19th century British recipe, fermented with original 1825 yeast salvaged from a sunken vessel in the English Channel. Several bottels of the brew were raised from some 60 feet in the Channel in their original condition with their wood stoppers and wax seals intact. When opened it ’tasted like old, wet boots’ according to Dr. Keith Thomas, brewer and microbiologist. But, when put under a microscope he found living yeast. After months of growing this yeast, he brewed a porter using an 1850 recipe. True to porters of this era Dr. Thomas uses barley and hops grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. .......................OK, that’s the story, so shouldn’t it be called ’1850 Porter’? Anyway, the beer is fantastic! Very flavorful, yet drinkable. Fuller than Yuengling’s Porter, and less fizzy, to boot. Who knew such an old beer recipe could taste so good. Dogfish Midas Touch could learn a thing or two from this brew.

Roasted chocolate. Black turning to blood red through light. Malty, slightly bitter, with that roasty rich aftertaste. Apparently this stuff was made with yeast from a sunken ship.....sold me on it. Probably the best porter I’ve had so far. I recommend you drink this at room temperature for maximum flavor.

Ok not as sweet as most of theese but nice and smooth. Chocolate is present though.I doubt this yeast is nearly 200 years old. Good brew though

Great beer. Dark brown with a slight brown head. Chocolate flavors. Roasty and malty.

Beautiful in color, taste is just right. I really like this Porter.

Outstanding porter. Chocolatey, with a bit of hop coming through and a slightly smoky/woody finish that reminded me for some reason of good bacon. This makes me want to build a time machine and go back to 1825 to see if every other beer was this much better..