Keystone Porter

Brewed by Keystone
Style: Porter
Salisbury, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottled. A black beer with an off-white head. A roasty and smoky aroma with some burnt milk notes. A dry roasty taste with plenty of coffee. Pretty bitter and has the odd veg note. A decent porter.

Cask, Woolpack, Chelmsford, pint. God lacing, opaque colour, coffee, roasted malts, chocolate. cream aggressive bitterness, good balance, oily, soft carbonation. Excellent. 5.5% abv.

Cask@O’Connells, Tampere. Deep murky amber colour with not too much head. Aroma is coffee, roasted malts, mild dark dry fruits as well as some mild vanilla. Flavour is roastedmalts, coffee and mild chocolate.

Cask (Gallows Bird, Espoo)
Very deep red, small head. Rich chocolatey aroma. Quite thin refreshing palate, carbonation low. Chock full of smooth roasty chocolatey aromas and retronasals. Fairly simple body - roasts plus some light hoppy tingles. Great porter, sessionable I’m sure. Unusually, Anna didn’t have this.

Cask @ Gallows Bird, Espoo. Dark brown with not much of a head at all. Coffeeish aroma of roasted malt with some notes of chocolate. Roasted malt with definitely some coffee in the flavour. Feels a bit watery, otherwise quite ok.

Cask @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester. Pours a very dark almost black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty coffee aroma with some fruity hints. Roasted malty coffee flavor with a slightly thin mouthfeel. Has a roasted malty coffee finish.

Cask (Guide Dog, Southampton) - Very dark brown with some red tinges when held to the light. Roasted malt aroma with fruit and coffee. Chocolate and roasted malt with some coffee in the taste. I was expecting but more but it’s not bad.

Bottle at home ... Deep black with a nice head ... light roast malt ...quite sweet up front with lots of roast and some coffee .. a little odd flavour that i ant place that stops it being a great porter but its still pretty respectable.