OHanlons Original Port Stout

Brewed by OHanlons
Style: Stout
Whimple, England

Bottle. Light brown creamy and lasting head. Very dark red almost black body. Coffee aroma. Smoked malt with bitter fennel flavor.

(Cask at Market Porter, Borough, London 20 Apr 2006) Colour is opaque black, with a creamy beige head. Nose is roasted, bitter-sweet with hints of ruby port. Taste is roasted, nutty, bitter-sweet, with more port, some cherries and a slightly hoppy finish. Complex, and very nice.

A lot of hype for a delivery that was honestly unextraordinary. Sole beer for the night and it paled in comparison to some ruby Mild’s of mine I had sitting in the fridge next to it. Poured into a pint glass just on cold. Appearance was everything as an enormous tanned soufflé head rose a good inch from the brim to set and make tasting just that little bit ’arder. The body of beer was beautifully clear and a deep, ruby brown. Mellowed and mulled mocha coffee and dark chocolate aroma with a feint touch of woody port and cherry fruits. It’s soft in the mouth, thin in body and subtle in flavour, becoming smooth as it warms. Not much of the aforementioned port at all in the flavour; leans towards dark, powdery chocolate, light notes of dessert cherries and some roasted, coffee beans which dry it right out in the back, with just a touch of burnt wood finishing it off. Falls of short in the swallow, not much baggage to carry it and it becomes a little too sweet as it goes. Sessionable, but one to easily fall through the cracks. There is just not much to it. Average at best (50cL, 23/03/06, Int’l Beer Shop, W. Leederville)

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.