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Scotch Irish Black Irish Plain Porter

Scotch Irish Black Irish Plain Porter

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A Porter brewed by
Heritage Brewing Limited

Carleton Place, Canada

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943.55/5.03.54/5.0Winter4.5%82.6English pint, Stem glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
This seasonal porter is a brown so deep that it's almost black. The taste of our "plain" evolves as it warms in the glass; shading from dry chocolate and coffee to chocolate and cobnut. The finish is dry and nutty with just the slightest hint of licorice. Black Irish is brewed from pale ale, crystal, brown and chocolate malts; with roast barley in the mash for the dry astringency characteristic of Irish porters and stouts. Delightful on its own, it makes a wonderful match with smoked salmon, mussels or oysters.

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 omhper (10950), Stockholm, Sweden
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/55/102/58/20
Jan 9, 2002  
Black coloured. Unfortunate big apple aroma, medium body, somewhat creamy, roasty. Slightly acidic finish. Probably not in best shape when I sampled it.


 Oakes (7032), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Aug 12, 2001    Updated: Aug 10, 2003
3 year old vintage: This is much more vinous, and less roasty. This not only gives it one of the defining elements of a porter, but reduces one that probably was too much to begin with. The end result - wonderfully complex and balanced porter. One of the few bright lights at the Toronto Festival of Beer 2003. This would score around 4.1. Do it again, Perry. <br /><br />Black w/light brown head; lightish body, but luscious chocolate flavours; slight roasted astringency. In fact, this isn&#39;t really a porter at all, but a stout. The presence of roasted barley, the black colour and astringent bite at the end are all hallmarks of a Stout, not a porter.


 acrdz (4489), Boulder, Colorado, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Dec 19, 2007  
Quick review of an 11oz stubby bottle from the CheeseMan! Pours dark and oily with a motor oil consistency, lower carbonation than most, but suitable on the palate, as it&#8217;s slick and oily with a decent amount of roast and smoke &#40;burning tire rubber?&#41;, and an almost peaty note. A good porter. I can really see this one working well with oysters, much like cask stout and porter, with than smooth, low carbonation texture.


 MartinT (4458), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/57/103/515/20
Dec 11, 2003  
This witch&#39;s cauldron is brimmed over with gorgeous coffee beans, which the dry woody ladle stirs with vivifying force...Vinous healthfulness boils and wicked ashes surface late...The abundant grass of the surrounding hill howls its intrinsic perfume to the salivating full moon...Thanks pondoshuffles!!...


 tiggmtl (4178), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/56/102/512/20
Jan 4, 2008  
Grainy, biscuity chocolate cocoa in the nose. Clear deep brown body is almost black. Low tan, fine bubbled head recedes fairly quickly to a slight ring. Raisins, light roasted malt flavour. Very dry with medium body and low carbonation. Bottle &#40;LCBO at Summerhill, Nov-07&#41; sampled with Beershine and Oakes.



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