Porterhouse Wrasslers XXXX Stout

Brewed by Porterhouse
Style: Dry Stout
Dublin, Ireland

Draught @ The Porterhouse, Covent Garden. Mahogany with a thick beige nitro head. Dark chocolate, roast malts, black filter coffee and a hint of soap in the nose. Slightly thin in the mouth but has good roasty notes, baking chocolate and some bitter hops in the finish.

Aroma is dominated by roasted coffee and liquorice, cocoa notes too, black, sporting a tiny toffee head. Taste is unbeatable coffee, gorgeous liquorice, fine dark chocolate. Medium bodied, superbly balanced, bitter and bold. Incredible! Thanks Torontoblue.

Tap @ Porterhouse, London.
Pours almost black with a great, staying, creamy, beige head. Exceptionally good looks. Sweet, malty aroma, some chocolate and soft roasted. Not much of it, though. Low carbonation, fine, creamy mouthfeel - much like a good Guinness. Flavour is rather sweet and malty, good dark chocolate, nuts, liquorice and a great, long aftertaste.

750 ml bottle sent from Secret Santa 2008. Quite dark with a bubbly brown head. Very roasty aroma with licorice. Sharp but semi-sweet with roasted/burnt grain. Complex with a bit of malt with earthy/spicy hop presence that is not over done. Solid. Carbonated medium body with semi-dry finish. Pretty good for a style I do not usually get into.

750, corked and baled. Thanks, BitBucket! This was truly above and beyond the call without a doubt. The cork was a real SOB to remove--ended up chipping glass off the neck TWICE, using a garden variety wine bottle opener. This was after I gave up messing with the cork and just cut the top off. wtf? Impacted to say the least. But that’s neither here nor there wrt the beer, since I rinsed the shards off the top under the tap.
Pours a jet-black body under a thick, surging, moussy burnt tan head. Plenty of webby lacing left as it falls, but it sticks around to some degree for a good long while. Sweet licoricey nose...delectable. Creamy medium body. Plenty of chocolate and licorice on the mid-palate with whiffs of licorice darting in for cameos here and there. Long, mild, creamy finish. This isn’t really a 750 beer, it’s a 6-pack beer, but it’s lovely stuff. Could drink a fair bit of it if they got the price down where it ought to be, instead of hovering around 75 cents an ounce in the states at boutique bottle shops.

The 4X is my favourite stout from the Porterhouse brewery. It has the strongest taste, and it keeps you thinking.

Moderately, off-white head resting all the way on top of a pitch black body. Sweet coffee aroma. Roasted coffee beans in flavour turning into more coffee grounds towards the ending. Bitter finish (third pint glass on a sample tray, draught at Porterhouse London 05.08.2008).

Corked bottle and served in my Stone IRS snifter: Opaque with a frothy tan head and very good lace. The aroma has notes of heavy roasted and charred malts, aromatic herbal hops, anise, pipe tobacco, plum, and a hint of coffee esters. The taste starts with a nice balance of burnt black malt and hop bitterness balanced by bready pale malts. Hint of lactic twang and acidic fruit around the edges. The finish has some liquorice and chocolate notes along with a dry ashy character. There is a strange but welcomed salty like quality on the aftertaste. The mouth feel is round and lively, good for the style. Pretty darn nice beer but not too sure if worth the monies however.