Fowlers Gothenburg Porter

Formerly brewed at Fowlers
Style: Porter
Prestonpans, Lothians, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Cask at Banbury Beer Festival Fri 23rd March. Recomended this beer by Glen I was really looking forward to it. The beer poured black, and very black indeed with a nice beige head. Some sweet coffee notes, with burnt, roasty aroma’s. Taste was little liquoricey, coffee, I got a taste reminiscent of that camp coffee that my nan always used to have but a slightly more watered down version. This was a very pleasant beer but just a touch thin and not quite what I expected.

UPDATED: FEB 9, 2012 On cask at The Goth. Black beer with a lacy, tan head. Aroma of roasty malt, coffee and chocolate. Similar flavours with some burnt toast and fair bitterness. Moderate carbonation and a creamy mouth-feel. Lovely.

Cask at SRAF. Black pour with thin bubbles on top. Light roasty nose. Thin with a palate of vague burnt toast. Slight mocha finish maybe. Pretty bland.

16 June 2011, tap at SRAF. really dark brown, faint haze, no bubbles or head. thin body and almost no carbonation. nose is burnt bread crumbs. tastes alright. slightly burnt toast stout.

Cask (handpump) @ Halfway House, 24 Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1BX.

Clear dark dark blak brown colour with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, coffee, smoke - medicine notes. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20101031]

Cask @ 2nd Larbert Beer Festival. Black colour, tan head. Aroma of barley, roasted malts, chocolate. Flavour of roasted malts, chocolate. A bit sour.

28th September 2007. St Albans Beer Fest. Hmmmm had a few by this rate. Light palate. Not bitter. Juicy fruit.

Cask, Pig’s Ear BF 2007. A classic porter, nothing imperial about this one, but they should nat all be about that. Full body, sweetness, liquorice, coffee.

Cask, Alloa BF 07. Black with an off-white head. Burnt plums and coffee in the nose. Mouth is inoffensive, with some toasted marshmallows, icing sugar and burning wood. Cocoa and roasted malts dominate.

A Sim rate (cask at St Albans BF): Very roasty coffee aroma that just keeps on giving. Nice. Appearance is a classic almost opaque with a tinge of red. It would be a 4 with some head and/or lacing. Similar flavour to the aroma... strong roasty hit at hte beginning with lasting coffee flavour and a dark chocolate finish. Tangy, almost grapey aftertaste.

On graught at the Bow Bar Edinburgh: As black as coffee, small tanned layer, sticking to the glass; a bit of sweetish fruitiness in the roast-malty flavour; medium bodied, moderate to full bitter-sweet flavour; gets drier towards the fruity-malty finish; "roasted" aftertaste. Fine stuff.....