3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A nice full bodied brown porter. Rich and nicely roasted , with full on flavors of chocolate and coffee, moist chocolate cake mouthfeel. NIcely balanced with a dry roasted finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Near black. Fairly strong aroma with roast and a bit of chocolate and coffee. Smooth, full maltiness. Quite roasty as porters go but with smooth chocolate richness to back it up. Finishes quite dry.
3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: APR 4, 2006 Draught at the brewpub. Black, brief head. Aroma of mildly roasted coffee. Dryish with fairly light body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. There are notes of aniseed and some other stuff, but the lack of malt softness doesn’t allow me to pick up the more subtle flavours. Medium bitterness.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
[Tap] This was a dark brown with great haed. Loved the flavors and the light malt hints throughout the ber. Nice body and good blance of flavors. Good overall beer.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
dark brown pour, with a huge tan head. roasty, caramel aroma, with a little hoppy bite. flavor, i would say is the same as the aroma, plus a little chocolate up front. and a good roasty/bitter finish. pretty good but not great
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Brown with mahogany edges. Tan head and sparse lacing. Chocolate and roast with some bitter hops. Muted nose. Bitter roast and chocolate in the flavor. Fruity in the flavor and finishes bitter and roasty.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap at the Pelican Brewery on Cask. I’ve been debating as to if i should rate this or not, still to this day i’m not sure if this was really a porter, we asked for samples of the porter and it came back looking like an amber ale, we even got samples of the porter off of the cask and regular tap, still no porter looking beverage showed up. Very light copper color with a light tan head. Aroma was just a touch roasty, faint aroma of cocoa and maybe a touch of coffee, nothing like most porters i’ve had, lacking in the rich, roasty character. The flavor was very watery on the plate, the flavors were very mild and subtle. Wasn’t all that bad of a beer, just a bad porter. Maybe they just had a bad batch.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
RBSG 2004 on tap: Ruby with a small head, roasted aroma that is a bit much. Full bodied, and ends lightly sweet.
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