Commercial Description: Feral smoked porter has a very gentle bitterness and combines the classic coffee and chocolate character of the Porter style with a subtle smoked hickory flavour derived from the use of peated distiller’s malt.
Oct 10, 2009 [On-tap at Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle] Pours reddish-brown with a light beige head. Aroma is smoke, a touch of brown sugar, and something that reminded me of swamp gas. Luckily, the swamp gas notes were brief and not too strong. The taste was pretty much just smoke, but not in an extremely powerful way like an Aecht Schlenkerla, or even stone by Mad Monk. A little bit of non-smoked malt comes through, but it is too weak. Fairly thin, long finish--but would be surprised if it wasn’t with the smoke. Really not very impressed by this. One-dimensional, and not at all what I was hoping for when I saw the description.
Tried first at the brewery then later at the Flying Scotsman. First time was a meaty bacony aroma but mainly only smokey notes in the taste, some astringency, drank ok. Second time taste had mellowed out somewhat not so much smoke just ash in the taste and more sessionable.
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