Marks & Spencer Cheshire Chocolate Porter

Marks & Spencer
Brewed at Robinsons
Style: Porter
London, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Bottle 500ml. @ chriso s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2011.

Clear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light chocolate and roasted. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, light roasted, milk chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110730]

Bottled (from some random Marks & Spencer in London). Amber colour, small beige head and some slight lace. Aroma is chocolate, fruits, some wood and mild notes of vanilla as well. Flavour is chocolate, some vanilla and mild fruityness as well.

Bottle from M&S Liverpool. Clear mid brown colour. Lasting cream coloured head. Milk choc aroma. Slightly bready and malty too. It’s got more milk choc in the mouth and swallow. A bit of a one trick pony to be honest. Just some milk choc flavour, which isn’t overly strong and some fairly bland malty beer underneath. No real hop on finish, bit of sting from the carbonation. Touch of powdery choc on finish.

Bottle @ chriso. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty chocolate aroma. Fruity weak roasted malty chocolate flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel and chocolate finish.

Bottled, 500ml from M&S, Banbury. Copper to brown with off white head. Sweet chocolate aroma leading to much the same thing in the flavour, in fact, very sweet. Glutinous Chocolate with a plummy fruity note. Weird.

500ml bottle from some, thanks to oh6gdx, January 2010. Copper colour. Ridiculous levels of chocolate. Quite artificial tasting. Not too much else happening. Very sweet. Bags of flavour but too sickly for my taste. Limited notes as I rather assumed this was the same as Robinsons Chocolate Tom but I guess not.

bottle. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is caramel, sugar, candis sugar, toffee. Flavour is toffee, chocolate, sugar, candis sugar, caramel. Far away from a porter.

Bottled. A chestnut brown coloured beer with an off-white head. The aroma has sweet chocolate and banana. The same in the mouth. The chocolate is dusty, and is very prevalent late on the back of the tongue. A reasonable length. Really not sure about the banana but it’s not a bad beer.

Bottle. Dark brown with a beige bubbly head. Aromas are chocolate and hazelnut syrup with caramel. Light lemon with medicinal notes. Flavours are sweet chocolate malts with coffee and hazelnut. Citrus with sickly smooth cheap chocolate. Artificial and cloying. Not great.

300ml bottle (M&S)
Chocolate and vanilla custard aroma. Same in the taste. A bit thin tastewise, but still quite full bodied.