Parallelogram
Parallel 49 Brewing Company

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From:
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
 
British Columbia, Canada
Style:
English Porter
ABV:
6%
Score:
87
Avg:
3.88 | pDev: 7.47%
Reviews:
4
Ratings:
15
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 10, 2018
Added:
Mar 10, 2015
Wants:
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Parallel 49 Brewing & Forty Ninth Parallel (Coffee roasters)

A Parallelogram is a shape that you probably haven't thought about since grade 5. These two great companies have come together to bring you an Oatmeal Porter blended with Ethiopian coffee. Providing malt aromas , delicate roasted flavours and a smooth mouth feel that you won't soon forget.
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Ratings by chickenm:
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Rated by chickenm from Canada (BC)

3.8/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Mar 18, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.5 by Howlader from Canada (AB)

Mar 10, 2018
 
Rated: 3.98 by Erik-P from Canada (BC)

Oct 17, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.97/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
14oz glass, nitro version, @6.8% ABV, part of the Parallel 49 tap takeover at the Common in downtown Edmonton.

This beer appears a clear, dark red cola-tinted brown colour, with one fat finger of puffy, silken, and creamy beige head, which leaves surprisingly little in the way of lace around the glass as it very lazily recedes.

It smells of bittersweet chocolate, slick cafe-au-lait, grainy caramel malt, a twinge of black licorice, faint wet ash, and plain leafy and floral hop bitters. The taste is bready caramel malt, subtle biscuity toffee, laid-back sugary coffee, a soft lactic sourness, plum and dark cherry fruit notes, and a growing perfumed earthy and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is, well it's not, because this is nitro, baby, so the bubbles are so fine, which renders a complete smoothness and a decent creaminess. It finishes sweet - the java now having given way to the cocoa, caramel, and cream.

Overall, a genuinely slick and sultry porter - the nitro treatment very well applied. And the coffee's less than engaging performance? From an avowed cuppa joe agnostic, that don't matter much to me. An easy sipper for a day when winter seems to have found its balls once again.
Feb 12, 2016
 
Rated: 4.25 by scameron from Canada (BC)

May 08, 2015
 
Rated: 3.71 by Mack from Canada (QC)

Apr 19, 2015
 
Rated: 3.59 by Rutager from Canada (BC)

Apr 11, 2015
 
Rated: 3.29 by ZachT from Canada (BC)

Apr 04, 2015
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Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)

3.96/5  rDev +2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Parallel 49 'Parallelogram' an Oatmeal Coffee Porter @ 6% , served from a couple of 650 ml bottle's purchased for $5 each
A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a hint of crimson at the bottom of the glass peeking thru a small tan head leaving a spotty lacing along the pint
S-coffee & a hint of oatmeal
T-clean crisp tasting porter , with a slight coffee bitterness on the swallow
MF-decent carbonation , big medium body
Ov-ok beer , interesting combination , try one
prost LampertLand
Mar 25, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by schopenhauerale from Arizona

Mar 24, 2015
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Reviewed by Svingjo from Canada (BC)

3.52/5  rDev -9.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Parallelogram Oatmeal Coffee Porter from Parallel 49 Brewing Company in collaboration with Forty Ninth Parallel Coffee Roasters - Pours a dark black with a quickly dissipating tan head which remind me of a Coca-Cola. The nose leads with roasted coffee and bread. The taste has some sweetness at the beginning which steps aside for some coffee bitterness and brings to mind of gas station coffee that's been on the burner for a bit too long. It's not a bad flavour bit I thinking bitterness takes away from the roasted flavour. The mouthfeel is a little too carbonated for my tastes. I tend to like coffee collaborations but this feels like only the bitterness is brought forward from the coffee portion. A pretty one dimensional beer.
Mar 23, 2015
 
Rated: 4.23 by BCborn from Canada (BC)

Mar 22, 2015
 
Rated: 4.14 by imfinished from Canada (BC)

Mar 20, 2015
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Reviewed by souvenirs from Canada (BC)

4.23/5  rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Parallel 49 and 49th Parallel - a good combination! Smells and tastes of bread, coffee, and chocolate. Very smooth, velvety mouthfeel. I've enjoyed this one over and over.
Mar 19, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by IanSpindler from Canada (AB)

Mar 18, 2015
Parallelogram from Parallel 49 Brewing Company
Beer rating: 87 out of 100 with 15 ratings