Porterhouse Wrasslers XXXX Stout

Brewed by Porterhouse
Style: Dry Stout
Dublin, Ireland

On tap at the brewpub. Opaque black with big, creamy tan head. Aroma is roasty, dry with heavy tobacco. Flavor is chalky, ashy, but roasty and flavorful. Medium to light body, creamy. Nice.

weirdly enough right at the moment i’m reading a flann o’brien book where he talks about ’wrastlers’ porter: ’if you drank three or four pints of it it was nearly bound to win. The customers praised it highly and while they had it inside them they sang and shouted and sometimes lay down on the floor or on the roadway outside in a great stupor’. these days the wrassler XXXX fights with yuppies in covent garden for £3 a pop. nitrified, which rips the guts out of the malt flavours, and seems to be at odds with their all-natural beer bullshit all over the menu. enormously hoppy, in fact so hoppy that it overpowers the roastiness and the malt flavours - initially pretty mild and smooth, then gets jumped on WWF style by shitloads of galena and nugget. not balanced but who gives a rat’s ring when it’s this bitter.

Dublin ’03: Very dark black, thick beer. Lots of roasted malt in the aroma coupled with coffee, hops, and chocolate. Very cold, but gets better as it warms up with roasted malt, coffee, very bitter with hops and dry. I enjoyed this one many times while over there.

Bitter for a dry stout, but still solid and enjoyable. Fizzy light brown head above a dark, opaque body. The heavy aroma presents smells of roasted and burnt malts, molasses, coffe, smoke and hops. The flavor is lightly sweet, heaviy acidic and moderate to heavily bitter. Very dry and somewhat chalky finish. Medium body.

C-bus 7. Light roasted malt. Black body with a thin head. Medium palate. Lightly bitter toasted malts and some hints of coffee. Some grassy flavors show up now to make this more complex and are joined by an astringent malt flavor that detracts from the flavor.

Another capital stout from Ireland’s best stout brewer.

pours a thick black (opaque) with a large brown bubbly head.
smell is cocoa, touch of coffee, licorice, slight vanilla, a whiff of smoke.
taste is thick creamy, dark and bakers chocolate, touch of espresso, end is dry and slightly bitter, a woody aftertaste.

Dark brown pour with rustic crimson hues. A creamy light brown head disperses rapidly. the aroma is of sweet coffee, moderate roasted grains, burned caramel, astringent but not alcoholic at all. The flavor is very astringent, with just a touch of sweetness, hints of acrid smoke, torched caramel and unpleasant in many regards. The taste took a total nosedive. The finish is bitter, burnt, medium in duration and leaves sour roastiness lingering. Mouthfeel is tingly, adequately carbonated and dull, somewhat scattered. Interesting but not very drinkable.