Stroud Woolsack

Brewed by Stroud
Style: Porter
Stroud, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle at Malmö Öl & Whisky Festival. Clear red-brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel and hay with roasted notes. Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel with roasted notes and notes of hops. Hoppy finish.

Bottle at a ChrisO tasting - London. Pours clear, light brown with a fine, white film head. Dark bread in the nose with very faint cocoa notes. Light sweet flavor with more dark bread, some light earth, dark sugars. Light of body and fine of carbonation. Mild sweetness to finish with mellow chocolate, some toast. A bit bland but not offensive.

Bottle: Black colour, flat head. Aroma has a dominans of fruitynes,caramelly, brown sugar, sweet maltynes and coffee. Flavor had lots of fruits, some caramellynes and coffee. Thin body, medium coffee finish.

A nice porter by aroma, caramel, malt and liquorice, but something weird in the background .... sort of coal tar soap .....

50 cl bottle at City Pub, Göteborg, sampled on October 26, 2012.
Clear dark reddish brown color, huge creamy lasting tan head. Sweet, berry, chocolate, mint, spicy scent. Mineral, malty, cocoa taste. Dry grainy aftertaste, a bit acidic. Medium mouthfeel, medium low bitterness.

Bottle from Whole Foods, Piccadilly Circus. A dark brown colour with not much head, looks a bit like flattish Coke. To me this is more of a dark fruity ale than a porter, lacking the roasty malt and hopping of the latter. Quite a full oily body, some earthy hop, mostly fruity malt. Actually pleasant when I got over it not being a porter.

500ml bottle. Pours a deep mahogany, with a beige head. Fruity, roasted aroma, malt, carael, dried fruits, chocolate, hops. Off-dry, medium to full bodied, medium bitterness, balanced CO2. Malty, roasted taste, caramel, toffee, chocolate, yeast, dried fruits. A bit light for a porter? (2012-05-28)

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium to dark red brown colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, malt extract, caramelized sugar - malt, sugar. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sugary, malt extract, roasted notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120503]

Bottled (from ruby colour, small beige head). Rubyish amber colour, mediumsized slightly off-white head. Aroma is fruity and floral notes with mild chocolaty notes. Flavour is quite similar and a nice balance.

Cracked open a bottle and it started fizzing - didn’t quite expect that from this beer but it is bottle conditioned. It’s a decent porter but a bit light in the palate. Roasted coffee some lingering burnt aftertaste. Decent enough but there’s other porters on offer in London.