Middle Ages The Duke Of Winship

Brewed by Middle Ages Brewing
Style: Porter
Syracuse, New York USA

2009-07-31. Brown black body, tan head. Pleasant light roast flavour, mocha character, coffee like bitterness in the finish, taking on some interesting undertones as it warms. Aroma is mild, dilute coffee and dark malt. (6+) Average palate. Decent. On tap at the brewery

kind of dark but looks a bit like a very dark brown ale rather than a porter. head is light tan...average retention and minimal lacing. aroma is very malty...sweet and syrupy of caramel and roasted malts but very muddled. flavor is also overly sweet and lacks balance...has an odd chalkiness and is a touch sour but not old. mouthfeel is average but the finish is mildly unpleasant. i could do without having this one again.

Courtesy of grandet. Pours deep dark brown with garnet edges and one minute tan head. The aroma is caramel laced with a bit of earthiness along with moderately roasted malts, grapes and plums. Enjoyable flavor bringing forth roasted malts eventually leading to dry burnt malts with milder notes of earthiness, caramel and faint dark fruitiness. It really dries out with highly roasted malts and mild dusty earthiness into the finish. After a few ounces it tends to end increasingly roasty to burnt.

12 oz bottle shared. Aromas were weak difficult to pick up. Flavors were touches of malty sweetness, but with an overshadow of cardboard and bandage that really killed this for us.

Aroma is full of dark chocolate, black patent malts, some roasty aromas as well. Its appearance is dark almost black with a big initial white head that dissipates into a thin slice of head. It’s flavor is full of dark malts, very well roasted, with some molasses, and some dark chocolate. It’s very velvety, with a nice burnt toast bite.

Bottled. Poured clear iced tea brown with a tall, fluffy cap of beige head.. sticky lacing followed it down. The aroma picked up dry-roasted sweeter chocolates upfront with caramel, a bit of coffee, and a touch of perplexing detergent following.. OK overall. The flavor had a bit more coffee than chocolate at the core surrounded by wet, grainy sourness and some coffee bitterness.. dried out on the finish, leaving a grainy, refreshing feel. Medium-bodied with moderate-to-high carbonation on the palate.. aside from some odd features, this felt fairly good mouthfeel-wise.

12oz bottle. I like porters and I like scotch ale, so I figured this had to be a winner. dark ruby color with a huge foam head. light fruit and coffee aroma. sweet malt and fruit with a very dry finish. tasty

bottle from the Middle Ages mixpack, interesting name for a Scotch ale which is what the bottle said but apparently it’s a porter. Anyway the taste is a sweet, rich malt, some chocolate. Some fruit in the finish. very good would buy again