Primus East India Porter
Marble Brewery
- From:
- Marble Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 5.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.48 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 14, 2017
- Added:
- May 14, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.48/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 2.5
2.48/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 2.5
Reviewed from notes taken in Summer 2014.
Served on cask into a half pint glass @ Craft Beer Co., London.
5.90% ABV. Brewed for Cask Pub and Kitchen's birthday.
HEAD: Half a finger wide. Pale khaki colour. No creaminess or froth at all (true to its unfortunate cask dispense). Thin and weak looking. ~5 minute retention. No lacing adheres to the sides of the glass as the head recedes.
BODY: Dark amber. Dull, nontransparent, semitranslucent. Clean, lacking any visible yeast or sediment. Appears adequately carbonated. Far from unique or special in appearance. Looks more like an amber than a porter.
AROMA: Amber malts with concomitant sweetness. Pine needles/piney hops. Red malts. Some caramalt and biscuit malt.
A pleasant aroma of mild strength. Fails to evoke anything like a porter. Comes off as more of an amber ale aromatically.
TASTE: Pine needles, bread crust, caramalt, dominant amber malts, a kiss of herbal hop character.
It's decently balanced, but definitely not a conventional porter to any extent. More an amber. Poor duration, depth, and intensity of flavour; I blame the cask serving type.
Quite simple, lacking any nuance or subtlety to its execution. I can't say I care for this one much, but I bet it'd be substantially better on-draught.
TEXTURE: Direly undercarbonated. Mutes the flavour (in classic ask ale fashion). Smooth, wet, chewy, and scratchy on the palate, giving it a poor overall presentation of flavour. Another casualty of Britain's misguided preoccupation with cask ales...
At least it's not oily or buttery.
OVERALL: The problematic cask ale texture drags on the palate and gives me dry mouth, which really ruins the beer. Whenever I complain about cask ales being fundamentally inferior, I'm told I must have gone to a place with dirty lines or poor bartenders. If Cask Beer Co. isn't serving cask ales right, who is? This wouldn't be a good beer on-draught, but at least I'd enjoy finishing the glass.
High D+ (2.48) / NOT RECOMMENDED
May 14, 2017Served on cask into a half pint glass @ Craft Beer Co., London.
5.90% ABV. Brewed for Cask Pub and Kitchen's birthday.
HEAD: Half a finger wide. Pale khaki colour. No creaminess or froth at all (true to its unfortunate cask dispense). Thin and weak looking. ~5 minute retention. No lacing adheres to the sides of the glass as the head recedes.
BODY: Dark amber. Dull, nontransparent, semitranslucent. Clean, lacking any visible yeast or sediment. Appears adequately carbonated. Far from unique or special in appearance. Looks more like an amber than a porter.
AROMA: Amber malts with concomitant sweetness. Pine needles/piney hops. Red malts. Some caramalt and biscuit malt.
A pleasant aroma of mild strength. Fails to evoke anything like a porter. Comes off as more of an amber ale aromatically.
TASTE: Pine needles, bread crust, caramalt, dominant amber malts, a kiss of herbal hop character.
It's decently balanced, but definitely not a conventional porter to any extent. More an amber. Poor duration, depth, and intensity of flavour; I blame the cask serving type.
Quite simple, lacking any nuance or subtlety to its execution. I can't say I care for this one much, but I bet it'd be substantially better on-draught.
TEXTURE: Direly undercarbonated. Mutes the flavour (in classic ask ale fashion). Smooth, wet, chewy, and scratchy on the palate, giving it a poor overall presentation of flavour. Another casualty of Britain's misguided preoccupation with cask ales...
At least it's not oily or buttery.
OVERALL: The problematic cask ale texture drags on the palate and gives me dry mouth, which really ruins the beer. Whenever I complain about cask ales being fundamentally inferior, I'm told I must have gone to a place with dirty lines or poor bartenders. If Cask Beer Co. isn't serving cask ales right, who is? This wouldn't be a good beer on-draught, but at least I'd enjoy finishing the glass.
High D+ (2.48) / NOT RECOMMENDED
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