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Brewed by RCH
Style: Porter
Weston-super-Mare, England

bottled
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RATINGS: 361   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.37   EST. CALORIES: 135   ABV: 4.5%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask; Regular. Also available bottle conditioned.
In the old brewery we had a problem with slugs getting into the brewery. As the beer leaves a trail down the glass as you drink it like a slug, that's how the beer was named. A delicious traditional porter with a full bodied taste of chocolate, coffee, blackcurrant and black cherry with a good aroma. A near black colour with a good white head when served through a tight sparkler.
Pale malt, crystal malt, black malt; Fuggles and Goldings hops.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
jredmond (2471) - Manhattan, New York, USA - APR 2, 2011
Draft at Get Real NY Cask Ale Event with Linh, Streets, Andrew, and Brendan.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Lubiere (6707) - Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - MAR 26, 2011
A deep dark brown porter with reddish hues and a thin light moka head. Sweet vanilla chocolate and solvents in aroma. In mouth, a nice classy porter with bitter chocolate, but some solvents notes in finale. Cask at Get Real NY, March 19th 2011.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
altonbrownd (3419) - Brussels, BELGIUM - FEB 25, 2011
Bottle from Daily Delis. Dark brown with puffy tan head. Nose of chocolate and very bittersweet. Taste also chocolate and coffee and plenty of bitter. Quite nice with a creamy texture.

3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 11/20
ralphdot (506) - Billingham, Durham, ENGLAND - FEB 17, 2011
Black colour with a thin head, very low on odour, bitter slightly roast malt taste, ordinary.

4.2
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
wlajwl (1481) - Iowa, USA - FEB 10, 2011
A very good porter that is helped with complexity in the malts, just a great standard porter.

4.7
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 19/20
SanfordBrewer (1206) - Sanford, Florida, USA - JAN 18, 2011
Opaque black, thin but lasting beige head, cottony medium body, medium carbonation.

Aroma: coffee and chocolate malt,

Taste: charred chocolate malt, bready fruity ale yeast esters.

Could easily pass as a dry stout.

3.6
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
BlackWarrior (139) - Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA - JAN 14, 2011
Full aroma of malts, chocolate and cherries. Pours dark reddish brown with a thick tan lingering head. Tastes of coffee, malts and fruit with some bitter hops on the finish. Interesting and tasty porter.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Gary (1014) - London and Rochester, Kent, ENGLAND - DEC 17, 2010
(bottle conditioned.) Very cool bottle label/design, pissed off looking slug . A quality Porter with a smoky, roasty , dark malty -chocolate and espresso accent. Kinda creamy and with late bitter hop resins. Very swillable.


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