Meantime London Porter

Brewed by Meantime
Style: Porter
London, England

A Mes rate. Bottle at Duff’s.
Clean dark brown with a thin off white head. Decent toasty bready malt nose with a slight ashy hint. Similar flavour with plenty extra sweetness. Nice bitter chocolate finish. Straight forward but decent.

330ml bottle. Pours the colour of black tea with a medium light tan head. Aroma of burnt malt and dark chocolate. Tastes similar to how it smells, dark chocolate, coffee and malt. Good mouthfeel and a flavour that lasts and hits all parts of the mouth.

excited to finally get to try this on 9/22/09... the coffee porter has been on the shelves for some time but not this one. pours clear (bottle conditioned,huh?) burgundy brown with a big ol’ beige head. lots of clingy foam is left behind. it smells sweet and malty with abundant lactic qualities... along with toasted nuts, a little smokiness, chocolate and herbaceous-ness. the palate is thankfully nowhere near as sweet as the aroma lead me to believe. actually, it’s pretty dry throughout. flavors of chocolate, soured/tart milk, almost ashy roast, butterscotch-y caramel and a touch of smoke with a very mild bitter bite on the finish. the aftertaste is probably the most pleasant characteristic of the beer... nutty coffee-like goodness. medium bodied with a harsh fizziness until the carbonation dies down. it’s not great but i would drink a lot of it if it weren’t so pricey. 6/3/6/3/14/3.2

Porterfestival, Göteborg, 2009-11-14, Bottle AP: dark brown and stady head AR: bitter chocolate, rosted malts F: chocolate and great bitterness

75cl. Very dark reddish brown, fizzy beige head. Lactic sugary nose, roasted malts, licorice root, hint of vegies, mild coffee, earth. Flavor is roasty malts, dark sugar, earthy licorice, a bit hollow at start, but gets a nice old apples and tarry character later on. Light bodied, thin and coarse palate, doesn’t fit in here at all. Get’s a lot better when the carbonation wears off. Nice, though mild old world flavors.

750ml : I would have given this like a ’4.1’ six months ago, but Porters don’t do it for me like before..I find them a bit one dimensional or mundane these dayz. This is flavoursome but then so is a chocolate milk shake- and that does not give me wet dreams : A biege bubbley head above ruby i’d guess i’d say it is. Roasty accents ,with lots of chocolate malt character, becoming bitter and then powdery. Earthy dark fruit ,maybe plum and lightly refreshing fuggle’y hops.
A well made drink. If you dig this style a lot then you’ll wanna dive right into the glass.

75cl bottle. Pours a dark brown with a medium sized and mostly lasting, frothy tan head. Notes of roasted malts and nut, milk chocolate and coffee on the nose. The flavour profile is dominated by milk chocolate and light hints of spice. There are some dark fruit notes and a base malty sweetness, which does become a touch monotonous. Quite fizzy in the glass and the mouth with a medium body and dry finish.