RCH Old Slug Porter

Brewed by RCH
Style: Porter
Weston-super-Mare, England

The aroma is chocolaty, wooden, and coffee like with burnt malt. The appearance is dark brown with an average head. The palate is average also. Overall this is good but not great.

Bottle. Dark brown with a huge tan head. Good roasted aroma with espresso, chocolate and sour fruit present. Mainly sweet, quite fruity flavours (mostly tart berries) with espresso appearing towards the finish. Could have had a bigger body. Highly enjoyable.

Bottle. Mutiple aromas hit the nose. Wood, realgood roasted nut and a sweet cherry aroma as well. Black body when held to light a nice mahagany red color witha decent head. Chocolate flavor was most dominant but blended in was a sweet fruit and roasted nuts. Smooth on the palate, an enjoyable brew.

Pours very dark brown with a small amount of tan head. You really have to hold it close to light to see a ruby showing on the liquid. Mild coffee tones. You really have to pull at it to get something. Flavor is good. There are some richer characters here, but overall it seems a little bit thin and watery. What is there gives a nice malty flavor, but I feel like it could be (and should be for the price) thicker. Feel has a good carbonation to it, but just like the flavor, the liquid feel is too thin I say. Could stand to have more body. Overall a decent porter, but not really worth the price at all. Have had much better examples out there.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2007, London. Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, chocolate, coffe, berry (vanila / licorice). Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is roasted, coffee. Flavour is roasted, coffee, hop. OK beer.

Date: 11/09/2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Green’s, Atlanta

Black with ruby edges, big foaming tan head, light malt aroma, bland malty flavor, lots of carbonation, more roasted than chocolate, lots of malt bitterness, ground slugs?
-------- /> Date: 02/10/2005

more chocolate and less bitterness makes for a more drinkable beer, less slug, upgrade i to ii

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
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Pours porter brown w/ a nice creamy, soap spattered froth. Good hangtime and has a nice creamy lace that persists. Aromas of bitter chocolate malts. Kinda thin for a porter w/ low volume effers. It’s almost creamy in a Tetleys or Boddingtons style. A pronounced hop bittering w/ very mild malts. It’s totally English. Old world flavors and textures. No fruit. Just bitter leather and cocoa w/ a watery blood stream. The fnish is bittered well and finishes dry. This would be great on tap or in a nitro can. Overall: this is a great brew. Very unlike other styles and is totally sesionable. Very thirst quenching.