 ElBorracho (472), Chicago, Illinois, USA
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Dec 28, 2005 Cask at The Map Room. Pours dark with a bubbly, rocky head. Everything seemed subdued on this one. Hints of roasted grains and chocolate and not much else. Next.
Holdwine (908), Beertimore, Maryland, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 26, 2005 Cask... wonderful rich porter. Lotsa chocolate notes. The tongue brings to mind chocolate covered fruit. Slightly dry finish.
hopscotch (5490), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 5/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Dec 23, 2005 Updated: Feb 23, 2007Cask... Pitch black ale (deep ruby when held up to the sun) with a mid-sized, creamy, off-white head. Good retention. The nose is soapy and lightly chocolaty with a touch of leather. Medium-bitter flavor is fairly non-descript with a hint of chocolate... just a rumor, really. Medium-bodied and watery with pillow-soft carbonation. Dries out in the medium-bitter finish.
JonMoore (1561), Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 23, 2005 Bottle conditioned. Close to black looking with a slim beige head. Lovely chocolatey aroma, with coffee, licorice and some dark fruit. Taste ; it could do with more alcohol, but good nontheless; similar but less pronounced elements as in the aroma, light bodied. I should like to try the cask version.
larsga (2969), Oslo, Norway
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 20, 2005 Big beige head of coarse lace on dark red almost opaque body. Sweet harmonic coffee aroma with licorice, pepper, and pine notes. Sweet, smoky, burnt taste; aftertaste is a strange combination of driness, bitterness, soot, and coffee. Strangely thin mouthfeel. The sooty bitterness doesn’t really do it for me, but definitely a quality brew.
Papsoe (14997), Frederiksberg, Denmark
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 18, 2005 (Bottle 50 cl) Very dark brown, close to black, with a vague underlying reddish tint. Creamy, beige head leaving a pretty lacework. Aroma of hard roasted malts with a lightly burned note. Rather light body, very malty, lightly burned flavours. Dry, but still soft and very accessible. 281105
RooftopRogue (423), Champaign, Illinois, USA
| 1.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 2/10 | 3/5 | 2/10 | 1/5 | 5/20 |
Dec 17, 2005 Only a hint of coffee can be detected in the aroma. It is brown in color with a decent sized head. The taste is a sour smoked coffee taste. Fortunately, the taste fades fast. This beer is defiantly worthy of its name.
johninmelb (692), Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Dec 6, 2005 Very appealing nose of chocolatey dark malt with some raisins. Looks like coca-cola (about the third I’ve described like that recently, but what can you do?) Flavour is a refined, rich porter with a pleasant, slightly tangy hop finish. A good, solid porter.
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