Chanvre Noir
Brasserie de West Shefford

Bottle: Poured a medium black color porter with a super big foamy head with good retention. Aroma of roasted malt with some very subtle coffee note. Taste is more interesting then expected with some roasted malt with a slight sweet edge and a medium bitter finish. Body is a bit thin for the style and carbonation is about average. Good session porter and not something I was expecting from this brewery.

A porter that use hemps eh! Why not! A deep pitch brown that goes toward blackness. At first a good beige head that dissapeared right away without saying "hello".

Smell is weird, sour to a certain extent, maybe of the hemp, it goes to a very citrus like smell with flavours of caramel and chocolate. Odd!!!

At first sip, it has a very porter like taste, caramel, coffee, butter and chocolate flavours are all present but all come with an "ensemble" that the hemp comes and cover with a citrus sourness like. Very mollow, actually quite a shy porter indeed, very balanced but something missing, some torque maybe.