Labatt Porter

Brewed by Labatt Breweries (InBev)
Style: Porter
London, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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pours muddy dark brown with a small diminishing off-white head, no retention. roasted and burnt corn, cloying cheap molasses, minerals, boozy, chocolate and lactose-like creamy sweetness - cloying. average carbonation, medium body - oily, sticky, big, bland and awkward herbal-grassy finish. almost horrid.

Une bouteille vendue 3,39$. Une robe marron et son petit col mousseux qui s’efface rapidement. Un nez qui surprend avec des notes de café et de très fines notes chocolatées. Un goût plutôt fade. Les saveurs sont mal définies. Peut-être sont-elles construites pour ne pas choquer les papilles de la majorité? Enfin, rien de bien catastrophique dans cette représentation facile et bon enfant. En bouche, un corps bien faible et vivifié par des bulles piquantes. Une texture qui rappelle le cola Le Choix du Président. Une finale inoffensive, sur des notes de café et des notes caramélisées. Que de bons souvenirs rattachés à cette bière qu’on considérait jadis comme une bière nourrissante. Quelque part vers la fin des années 70, ma grand-mère, sourire en coin, n’hésitait jamais à me laisser boire une gorgée de cette bière qui, pour moi, goûtait la bonne mélasse. Cnie sa mi po vás babičku….

Good Canadian porter... Actually the only Canadian porter I have ever have had.

11.5oz bottle. Poured dark brown with tan head. Nose was roasty dark malt, cacao. Tastes of roasty choc malt, mild cacao, not a lot of complexity.

11.5oz bottle (’limited edition’ bottling). Poured a brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of roast, soil, earthy, and toasty. Tastes of roast, some earth, chocolate, and some caramel.

This was a pretty thin porter but it had a good smooth flavor and was very sessionable. I liked it.

341 ml bottle. Pours a dark orangeish brown with a short lasting beige head. Smell is grilled malt and grains. Taste is tons of sweet caramel, maple syrup, coca-cola. Quite sweet, brown sugar, cane sugar. No real bitterness. Liquid body. Felt more like drinking pepsi than porter. Highly disappointing.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a very dark brown color with a large foamy tan head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was dryish and malty with notes of anise and wood. The flavor was dryish and malty with notes of vanilla, wood and cola. Medium length dry malty vanilla and cola finish. Medium body. Ok.

Bottle 341 ml. Pours dark brown with reddish reflect. Nice frothy beige head, quickly diminishing. Not much on the aroma. Taste is ok, but is too much on sweetness (even for a Porter). Not so bad for a macrobrewed (probably one of the best Labatt product), but still nowhere close the best Porters...

Bottle into a goblet. Pour is a dark brown to light black with a fast dropping head. Taste is, caramel, cereal and malt. Finish is all malt that lasts very clean.