OHanlons Original Port Stout

Brewed by OHanlons
Style: Stout
Whimple, England

Bottle. Very dark with a pale brown head. Smells a slight bit smokey, slight liqourice, roastiness, coffee, can’t taste any port really. I quite like port too. Very dry, a little bitter. Feel a little let down, not that keen at all. Maybe just not my thing.

Black with a greyish head. Roasted malts in the aroma with further notes of coffee. The flavour is simlar to liqourice, mokka, roasted bread and it has a fine bitter ending.

Bottle. Black color with a pale brown head. Aroma: Roasted/burned malt, coffee, dark fruit, plums, light smokiness. Flavor: Roasted and burned maltiness, coffee, dark fruit, licorice, bitter chocolate, smoke, some sourness. Dry and bitter finish. Overall impression: 3.8 080804. Cask at The Wharf, Aalborg, Denmark. Almost black color with a beige head. Aroma of roasted/burned malt, licorice, tar, coffee, and some sourish notes. The taste is roasted/burned with notes of licorice, coffee, tar, smoke, salmiak, slightly tart/ sourish. Very nice on cask. Overall impression: 4.2

Bottle. Dark brown with a light brown lasting head. Not much aroma but some roasted coffee is to find. Tase is dry and sour with some roasted notes. I think this sample is infected, it dosn’t taste right. I’ve tasted it before and can’t recognize the taste.

Nice black color. Thin head with not much retention. I’m at the tale end of a cold and for some reason this tastes like bitter tonic water. The hops bitterness is there, but it is very clean for a stout.

You want DRY, this is it. No vestage of sweetness remains in this irish stout. I couldn’t really notice any Port in it either. However it is a good dry stout if that’s your bag. Not heavy in palate, good roasted flavor and some nice finishing hops make it drinkable.

Very nice - a dry stout with plenty of sweetness and a smokey coffee favour. A touch flat, but very nice.

Gravity cask at the Battersea Beer Festival, 6th Feb 2008. I can’t believe it’s taken me 400 rates to get round to this great stout. Looks superb - a very dark ruby brown. Kicks off well with a strong aroma of rich coffee and dark chocolate. The taste neatly blends the sweetness of port with the bitterness of chocolate and the roasted malt. The palate is full but lighter than you’d perhaps expect. Overall, it’s got bags of character but can also be drunk in quantity. Recommended.