OHanlons Original Port Stout

16.9-oz bottle. Pours near opaque with ruby highlights and a huge frothy tan head and excellent sticky lacing. Aroma is cask, oak wood notes, port, dark chocolate and caramel malt with yeast (earth) near the end. Dark, heavily roasted malt, burnt coffee, medium acidity and bitterness, floral and perfumey hops, port notes with a dark chocolate finish. Dark and fizzy, foamy palate.

Bottle conditioned from Regional Wines and Spirits. Pours dark brown with a touch of ruby. Nice tight mocha head. Aroma: slight coffee and roast malt. Initial taste of astringency but toast and coffee become dominant through the middle. Complementary bitterness for the gravity and ABV. Probably lacking in body for the style. Astringency on the finish - possibly due to the bottle conditioning. Fairly average for the style.

Black color, with a creamy tan-colored head, raisiny, hint of sweet chocolate, roasted malt, touch of mocha in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a cedery and grassy notes coming first, with a roasted malt, sweet mocha note, leading towards a flowery hops, and roasted malt bitterness finish.

huge rocky tan foam head on top of a dark black colored beer. smells like a stout(chocolatey, roasted barley) but you can also smell the port wine. slightly thin for a stout. bitter and roasty. light smoked flavor. dry. the port doesn’t show itself that much, if at all, in the flavor. a little thin and what happened to the abv?

Pint pulled at The Cats Back in Wandsworth (London), a dark ruby with little head. A very light mouthfeel with cheeries strong in the flavour, though a little tartish.

From a 1pt. 9oz. shaped brown bottle with blurb about the stout and a best before date on the label. Made a good appearance, poured an opaque ruby hued black with floaties and a nice foamy pale tan head that settled into a thin creamy lacing, moderate carbonation. Had a roasted malt and port wine nose with a little fruitiness and woodiness. A smooth light bodied mouth feel, good drinkability. Roasty malt taste cut by the sweetness of the port wine, a little oak woodiness, a subtle metallic malt flavor and a semi-sour malty finish. A pleasant stout, very drinkable.

Pours black, big beige head. I can smell the port bigtime. Flavors are mostly dark chocolate, dark fruits, I guess a touch of the port would be where the sweetness comes from, hoppy finish, not bad but nothing to brag about.

Dark brown body with a fizzy tan head that turns into a creamy layer of film, lacing all the time. The aroma is a buttery caramel complemented by chocolate and a subtle fruitiness, presumably from the port wine. There can’t bee too much of the latter in here, considering the modest abv, but it does add some grape flavoring. Add that to the caramel and chocolate along with a splash of coffee and a trace of vanilla, and you’ve got one tasty brew. Dry finish. This is one very good ale.

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