RCH Old Slug Porter

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

Foam Rangers January meeting. Clean brown color. Nutty chocolate nose with caramel notes. A bit thin, but decent flavors.

500 ml bottle poured a cleardark brown with ruby highlights and a small lingering tan head. Aromas of chocolate, carmel, light vanilla and a hint of licorice. Palate was light to medium bodied and smooth with a watery finish. Flavors of roastiness and bitter chocolate with a smooth watery finish.
Not a very good Porter.Fairly one dimensional and watery.

Bottle conditioned: Mellow toasted malts waft from the nose as the thick white dense head sits upon the medium black porter and stays there till the cows come home. Each touch of refill from the bottle re-invigorates the head but it settles back to its half inch of stoic bubbliness and looks at you as if to say. "I’m really too pretty to drink" Toffee and pecan nuttyness arive to great you in the nose just before your first quaff. Mmmm creamy smoothness and just a hint of tart hop bite. Full bodied and rich. The bottle conditioning is at its finest with this one. Oh Yeah. Your cheeks envy the tounge and want to take over breifly for this brew is the penultimate of porters.

Tasted 12/27/07. 500ml bottle. Clear with an almost opaque brown hue. Clinging beige head. Aromas of raisins and prunes. Fudge and toast. Medium bodied with chocoalte fudge and toffee flavors. Nice vanilla creaminess. Tart dark fruit flavors. Toasty. The second glass reveals the sediment. More coffee astringency and fruit notes. Decent enough brew, but nothing spectacular.

500 ml bottle. Coarse and airy medium-sized tan head. Deep dark brown color. Not very aromatic; scents of dark fruits, roast, malts and faint grassy hops. Taste is dry roasty and salty. Coffe notes and a fine bitterness underneath. Light to medium body. Quite sourish and long light bitter finish.

Bottled. Poured clear, deep plummy brown with a tall, creamy cap of grayish-beige head.. sticky lacing. The aroma picked up coffee first with dry-roasted darker chocolates and black cherry skins.. dry and very enjoyable! The flavor mirrored the aroma well with dry chocolates and light coffee bitterness.. the back end brought out tart cherry and other darker fruit skins.. dry chocolate bitterness and moderately-roasted black malt sweetness on the finish. Lighter-bodied and a bit watery at points.. without that occasional empty feel, this perhaps would have gone from good to great!

500 ml bottle purcahsed at Oak Tree. Pours a slightly thin looking deep brown with lots of visible carbonation clingiong to the side of the glass with a small biege head. Bitter sweet aroma with a slight nut character. Thin bodied with average carbonation. Light roasty flavor with perhaps a slight oat flavor and hints of chocolate. As I drink this I am praying for the Eagles to win, I can’t believe I just admitted that.

Tasted 11. des -07. I would never have guest this was a porter if I had blind tasted it. Its a lot of ripe apples in both the aroma and the initial flavor. After the first taste notes have settle you begin to taste some of the traditionally porter flavors: roast, darker fruits etc. There may have been something odd with this bottle, it had almost no carbonation