Meantime London Porter

Brewed by Meantime
Style: Porter
London, England

Dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of sweet malt, nuts and raisons. Flavor of sweet malt with notes of chocolate, coffee and nuts.

Bottle. Aroma is dusty, earthy, peat-like, a bit swampy with some chocolate notes. Some metallic aromas are also present. Transparent light mahogany color with a frothy light tan/yellowish head. Could stand to be a bit darker. Starts off a bit astringent and metallic and carbonated, which turns into a more roasty and mellow porter to finish. Chocolate malts come in late with nice roastiness. Mouthfeel is superb. A nice session beer. Very smooth and flavorful. Unforunately, the aroma is a bit weird.

Deep ruby, almost black colour. Nice head. Very roasty, almost smoked aroma with notes of toffee and cocoa. Flavour is very roasty, yet balanced. A pleasant porter.

Bottle. Blackish beer with a very strong head. The aroma is midlly roasted and the flavour is quite deeply roasted. Overall a nice roasted and bitter’ish beer.

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.

Cask (pasturised?) at Greenwich Union: Deep dark brown in colour, with some ruby notes. Long lasting white head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate and a slight hint of oak. Flavour is balanced chocoalte, mild berries and a smooth coffee finish. No harsh roast flavours, all very smooth and suprisingly mild in flavour. Tasty stuff!

Thanks to Badgerben for sharing this impressive porter. I have gotten bored with the style but this beer reminds me what a porter can be. Aroma has smoke, chocolate, coffee and tobacco. Flavor has some wine, with roasted and lightly sweet malt. Thick and heavy on the palate.

Brown Coloring with Sandy Head. Smoked Coffee Roast and Bittersweet Malt Throughout. Solid Body. This Porter Has Very Nice Flavors and Lots of Presence and Has What You Would Standardize in a Porter but Perhaps Not Something You Would Drink Often or Alot of. The Same Way I Feel About Anchor Porter.