Going Dutch
Sherbrooke Liquor Store
- From:
- Sherbrooke Liquor Store
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 23, 2016
- Added:
- Apr 07, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
2.45/5 rDev -30%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
2.45/5 rDev -30%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
Bottle: Poured a black color porter with a large light brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of light tart notes with roasted malt is OKish. Taste is a major mess with load soft rat flavours which don’t integrate well with the gin barrel and the roasted flavours. Body is light with good carbonation. Worst beer by far that I have had from this fine brewery.
Jun 23, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
750ml caged and corked bottle, thanks to Christian, the Alberta rep, for the sample. A celebration of Sherbrooke Liquor store's 10th anniversary, shared with Keg n Cork, in terms of putting up the dough to have this contract brewed at De Molen, I suppose, which explains the name. An 'Imperial Porter', made by aging the brewer's Tsarina Esra in Jenever (or gin, on this side of the Channel, and pond) barrels.
This beer pours a pretty solid black, with dark cola highlights, and a thin cap of big-bubbled, very soda-pop like beige 'head', which leaves some island atoll lace around the glass as it strangely lingers, kind of like it is self-aware. I should have known when I popped the cork, and heard but the faintest of actual 'pops'.
It smells not so strongly of musty molasses, very dry dark chocolate, sour black fruit - dried-out prune, mostly - subtle hints of black licorice, mild coffee and cream notes, very understated herbal liqueur, and a touch of hollow woody astringency. The taste is lightly fruity, thin caramel/toffee malt, bittersweet cocoa, Scandinavian licorice 'candies', earthy, weakly grassy hops, and a hauntingly familiar, ethereal herbal booze quotient.
The bubbles are, as expected from the get-go, pretty much non-existent, the body subsequently exposed for its thin, and at times watery nature for the style, with smoothness now a pointless afterthought. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, molasses, and fairly timid anise flavours facing little in the way of counterbalance beyond a soft barrel woodiness.
Anytime one sets the clear alcohol (gin, vodka, aquavit, etc) barrels to beer aging, in my experience, the effects are too minimal or hidden to really jump up and get down about. And they tend to bring about another condition, which unfortunately manifests in this offering - a lightening of the overall body and perception, one that dulls an otherwise sexy and silky style, a condition not salvageable by esoterically foreign adjuncts, I'm afraid.
Apr 07, 2013This beer pours a pretty solid black, with dark cola highlights, and a thin cap of big-bubbled, very soda-pop like beige 'head', which leaves some island atoll lace around the glass as it strangely lingers, kind of like it is self-aware. I should have known when I popped the cork, and heard but the faintest of actual 'pops'.
It smells not so strongly of musty molasses, very dry dark chocolate, sour black fruit - dried-out prune, mostly - subtle hints of black licorice, mild coffee and cream notes, very understated herbal liqueur, and a touch of hollow woody astringency. The taste is lightly fruity, thin caramel/toffee malt, bittersweet cocoa, Scandinavian licorice 'candies', earthy, weakly grassy hops, and a hauntingly familiar, ethereal herbal booze quotient.
The bubbles are, as expected from the get-go, pretty much non-existent, the body subsequently exposed for its thin, and at times watery nature for the style, with smoothness now a pointless afterthought. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, molasses, and fairly timid anise flavours facing little in the way of counterbalance beyond a soft barrel woodiness.
Anytime one sets the clear alcohol (gin, vodka, aquavit, etc) barrels to beer aging, in my experience, the effects are too minimal or hidden to really jump up and get down about. And they tend to bring about another condition, which unfortunately manifests in this offering - a lightening of the overall body and perception, one that dulls an otherwise sexy and silky style, a condition not salvageable by esoterically foreign adjuncts, I'm afraid.
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