Messrs Maguire Porter

Brewed by Messrs Maguire
Style: Porter
Dublin, Ireland

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Deep brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and some nuts. Medium-bodied; Creamy and roasty flavour with a nice bitterness at end. Aftertaste clean and sharp, but relatively nice. Overall, a nice break from Guinness, but the reminders of THE irish beer are still everywhere in this one! Definitely nice to try in Ireland. I sampled this pint on draught at the MessRS Maguire Brewpub in Central Dublin on 19-February-2009.

2012 version on tap at Messrs (4.8% ABV). Pours deep, dark, murky ruby with thin off-white head - great lacing. Aroma is fairly subtle roasted, smokey malt, chocolate, and slight coffee. Taste is much the same with pronounced chocolate, smoked, and coffee flavours all combining well. A little bit watery - not quite as full a mouthfeel as I would like, but still a very decent and satisfying porter.

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival 2007. A black beer with a brown shine under a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and coffee. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of roasted malt and hints of smoke from black malt, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Draft at Bull and Cork, Dublin. The pour was dark brown in color, ok initial head and below par lacing. The aroma was milk chocolate and light roast. The flavor was milk chocolate first and foremost, light roast second, and a variety of lesser harder to detect hints of licorice and maybe some dark fruits. The mouthfeel was low on carbonation, somewhat sticky. Overall a sweeter take on the porter style, also not complex, but enjoyable (not sessionable: too sweet).

Black, though with very little head. The aroma is quite mild. Dry, decent roasted flavours, coffee more so than chocolate, pronounced bitterness, but not to the point of being harsh. Medium bodied. One of the better Irish brews IMO.

Draught@SBWF 2007
Dark ruby, almost opaque color, nice expresso head, some lace. Some roasted and papery notes in the nose. Coffeish, coffee beans all over. Clean, a bit lagerish product. Nicely drinkable.

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Dark brown, small head. Evident licorice aroma. medium bodied, a bit tarry with resiony finish. Uncomplicated and a bit edgy, but still good.

Bottled. Ruby red colour, brown mediumsized head. Aroma is smoked and roasted malts along with dry dark fruit and chocolate. Flavour is very much the same with smoked wet wooden hints added. Pleasant.

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2007) Black color, brown head. Milky chocolate aroma, some tar, mint and cocoa. Roasted flavor, tar, cocoa, some licorice. Hoppy finish. A bit thin.

Cask, Rugby Fest 07. Almost black with a small head. Aromas are earthy roast malts with some chocolate and hints of liquorice. Some berry fruit. Flavours are roast malts with some smokiness. Floral notes with a dry finish.