OHanlons Original Port Stout

Brewed by OHanlons
Style: Stout
Whimple, England

A dark brown to black stout with a thick fluffy moka head. A rather strong Brett aroma, herbal with notes of chocolate, bitter and roasted. In mouth, a bitter chocolate appears clearly, a bit herbaceous, but no porto noted in this. Medium bodied. Bieropholie private imports, early 2006. BB 03-05-2007.

Dark brown, nearly black with substantial tan head. Aroma has an interesting rose-like hint to it. Taste is very dry and roasty like if you watered down a proper stout. The port does not shine through in this tasting. $4/17oz.

Bottle.

This one practically explodes out of the bottle with aggressive carbonation, leaving a great big light-brown head atop a nice dark body.

The port wine flavors come through strongly here, with quite noticable additions of smoke and licorice. The whole thing is amply hopped, leaving a vinous porter that is filled out by a nice bitter finish.

For me, the whole doesn’t quite add up to the sum of the very good parts, but it is still a nice beer.

Bottle BB 7/21/04.. let’s see how some inadvertant aging treats this one... Poured deep mahogany with garnet highlights and a towering cap of fluffy beige head. Nose picked up airy sweet caramel and milk chocolate.. some pruney sweetness, too. Flavor picked up grainy, lightly-roasted chocolate and coffee sweetness, a hint of dark fruit, and a bit of oak.. Thin, sweet, and a bit grainy on the palate.. but felt kinda good. Roasted coffee and sweet, dark fruit on the short finish. Not bad.

A Mes rate: Cask at the White Horse. Perfumed aroma. Portly in colour, a lovely clear dark red. Malt, coffee and caramel with some roasted nuts in the mouth. Something sweet and akin to coca cola in the aroma. In fact its just like cola cube sweets I had as a kid. Lovely smooth palate. Red wine finish with some nice chocolate notes.

Bottle picked up at Morrisons, Bridport, Dorset, 17-11-06. This was a decent dark, rich and full flavoured stout had some bitterness but something missing, but ultimately quite enjoyable.

Tap@Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen: Aparantly I had so much fun I can only find a rating and no notes. I’ll have to go back...

On tap: Pours dark red/ brown, with a lmedium sized, beige, mostly lasting head . Nose of roasted malt, with tiny notes of port. Rather dry flavour with dark chocolate and roasted malt. Nice bitter finish. Medium bodied. A bit thin palate. I’m a little disappointet.