Meantime London Porter

Brewed by Meantime
Style: Porter
London, England

First rating.
Bottle of 750 ml with a cork like on the picture to the left. Bought at Swedish alcohol store "Systembolaget".
Beautiful ruby red color with a big creamy brown head. Coffee and chocolate scent. Big body and great bitterness. Big chocolaty and coffee taste and long aftertaste.
Cloudy look the second time, since the size of the bottle compared to my glass didn’t allow one pour only. Yeast sediment is to "blame", but I do love bottle conditioned beer.
Some alcohol in the scent when the beer gets a bit warm.
8/5/8/4/17=4.2

Second rating March 10, 2007.
75 cl bottle at Delirium Café, Göteborg.
Clear red-brown color, dissapearing tan/beige head. Nice smooth chocolate scent with some salty mineral in the back. Salty roasted chocolate and bitter taste. Smooth mouthfeel. Medium bitterness.
7/3/7/4/15=3.6

Could have sworn I rated this one already, but I obviously forgot. 2005 750mL bottle graciously given to me by Duff, shared with OldGrowth in October 2005.
Served quite cold to start (too cold) but allowing to warm provided a wide range of flavors. It pours a deep inky black to deep mahogany brown with just a pinch of deep chartreuse. Head is large, foamy and well-retained, tan in color and provides light lacing. The little filtration provides plenty of chunky sediment in the glass even towards the top of the settled bottle. Aroma of light molasses/brown sugar, rich coffee roast, vanilla, dark chocolate and plenty of strong yeast (dusty and rather dry). Flavor begins with a light oily roast, plenty of biscuity nuttiness and simple cocoa notes. It develops a refined, subtle vanilla and toffee as it warms and finishes, building on the palate pleasantly. Chocolate chip cookies are not unthinkable to compare it to. A touch of oily roast sticks to the palate providing most of the dryness and light bitterness. Vinous, dark fruits, while apparent are not overly so, certainly not as much as I was expecting. Yeast is fresh, though rather bland and nutty. Body is medium, never getting terribly sweet, but certainly not undermalted for the style. No alcohol apparent. Don’t find any hop flavors either, but perhaps I did not look hard enough. The carbonation is very low, light, medium-sized bubbles burst loosely and lightly and the texture is a bit thinned out, like it has been aged a year (though it hasnt). Though again, the light looseness is certainly to style and nothing to complain about. Very well-executed on all accounts.

Bottle picked up at Sainsbury’s Kidlington. Aroma is sweet malty, roasted and coffeeish, colour dark brown, Malty in taste touch of sweetness, bit on the dry side but not a bad beer at all.

(750ml bottle) Purchased from Bottleworks for an ungodly $9.49. Pours a thin, biege dissipating head with a black body. Nose is mildly coffee and the flavour is weak and watery. I have no idea why this costs so much? Its a very plain porter. I’d much rather have the John Sleeman Presents.

Bottled. Black, firm beige head. Salt, coffee, licorice, chocolate... in both aroma and flavour. Feels refreshing with a full body.

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2005) Dark amber, small brown head. Great aroma from licorice, some tar and coffee, juniperberries. Tar flavor with some licorice. A bit thin to be a porter this strong.

Bottled. 75 cl. Dark brown colour. Lots of EKG(or the likes) hops accompany the yummy chocolate profile in aroma. Smells very much like Dugges Bältesspännaren. Light roasty in flavour with dark chocolate and a bit of dark fruits. Restrained caramel profile and only light sweetish. Long flavour with a nice bitterness. A very hoppy London Style Porter.

750ml bottle poured a hazy ruby brown with a small short lived amber head. Aromas of milk chocolate,roasted malt and a hint of smoke. Palate wasmedium bodied and smooth. Flavors of roasted malt, chocolate and a light smokiness with a mildly sweet, smooth finish.