Houston Black & Tan

Brewed by Houston
Style: Porter
Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Cask at Merton Beer and Cider Festival, Merton, Oxon, 18-07-09 Pours dark brown in colour. Taste is roasty but also smooth and creamy, good maltiness, coffee and a little sprinkling of chocolate. Pleasant stuff A6 A4 F7 P4 Ov13 3.4

Cask Handpump at the Toby Jug, Glasgow 02/12/2007 Sweet honey aroma. Mid brown amber coloured and slightly rich on the palate with some bitterness in a crisp and dry full malt finish.

Cask, Cov 09. Mahogany with ivory lace and froth. Persistent silky handpull condition-best of the festival. Gentle mild-like milky coffee and cocoa, slight chew of dark fruits. A fruity little mild more than a porter perhaps. Very nice.

Cask conditioned at Harbury Beer Fest ’08. Mahogany colour with tan head. Big, fully flavour beer with good hop character for a Porter, perhaps not totally true to style. Luscious fruitiness with husky, roasted coffee flavours. My beer of this festival. Lovely.

Cask at aberdeen Beer festival ... Deep brown ... roast and chocolate malts ... wee bit bitter ... thin roast nose.

Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Luton BF. A very dark brown coloured beer with no head. The aroma is malty and has caramel notes. Actually quite dry in the nose. The taste is dry and malty with a little coffee. Definitely came over as a decent but not outstanding porter.

Deep amber, reddish colour with a dense tan head. Malty, caramel and fruity sweet aroma with a light hoppy floral note. Light roasted malty flavor with some sweetness and a hoppy floral finish.

[cask from JDW] Aroma has a strong malt character, caramel, some chocolate and some roasted coffee character background herbal hop notes. medium body, dry roasted finish.