Red Duck Porter

Brewed by Purrumbete Brewing
Style: Porter
Camperdown, Vic, Australia

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottle. Pours very dark brown with a medium tanned head. There’s not much of a presence of roast with more chocolately notes and flavour, with sour cherries cutting through as well. Surprisingly thin for a porter and it does finish on a low with a touch too much sourness. Not bad but there’s plenty of better porters readily available on the market.

on tap at taps beer baar Kuala Lumpur. Ok off white head. Clear dark pour. Quite a nice porter

Dark brown coloured body with a thin tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, nuts, earth and a touch of chocolate. Medium-bodied; Not a strong roastiness at all with a little odd earth and caramel taste followed by a vegetable or off-tasting flavour soon afterwards. Aftertaste shows mostly malt with a little sweetness and a very odd herbal note toward the end. Overall, not such a great beer, but not horrible when sampled along with food. I sampled this 33 cL bottle sampled at a local pizza restaurant in Port Campbell (Great Ocean Road), Victoria, Australia on 01-January-2010.

330mL. Aussie blind tasting part 4. Pour is all fizz cola rub with really not much of a head. Aroma is an odd spicy mix, massive Kalamata olives, just so over the top on olive juice. As it warms there are hints of coffee and roasty porter notes along with something odd like lemon lime soda. Taste is dominated by carbonation, suddy, fizzy, some Kalamate olive juice coming in to be cut by a dry, suddy, chalky palate. Eventually some dark chocolate comes through.

From a 330ml bottle on 6/6/2010. Pours extremely dark with almost no head. Aroma is roasted malt, berries with a bit of coffee, caramel and toffee. In the mouth, its both tart and sweet, quite fruity (raisins) and malty, with some noticeable warming alcohol and decent bitterness at the finish. A solid porter.

330ml bottle. Pours thick and oily black with an even tan coloured head. Black in colour, like a moonless night. Strong dark chocolate aromas with burnt malt. Good mouthfeel with a silky texture and smooth burnt flavours. A great porter.

Pours black with a small head. Rich aroma of dark chocolate, raisins, molasses, tar and cinnamon. Very complex, very rich! Roasty flavours with not much of the aforementioned complexity. Some cocoa shows. Still, nice enough and manages to be quite rich. Nice rich body with low carbonation.

Bottle. Pours very dark brown with ruby highlights and a short, bubbly tan head that doesn’t last long. Aroma is quite fruity with notes of berries, raisins and dates as well as chocolate and roasted malt. Flavour still has a hint of fruitiness but is more malty with chocolate, coffee and caramel notes standing out. Mouthfeel is a bit light, almost thin, with moderate carbonation and a lingering roasty, bitter finish. Not bad porter overall but not quite up to the standards that these brewers have set with some of their other beers.

Very dark, almost black with minimal head. Toffee and fruit aroma. Toasted taste. Leaves a bitter / chocolate after taste. Not really my style of beer. But not too bad.