Cherry Porter
Wissey Valley Brewery
- From:
- Wissey Valley Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.2 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 01, 2008
- Added:
- Jun 01, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England
4.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Purchased at the Archer Road Beer Stop, Sheffield. Coming in a 750ml green bottle, corked and caged, and bottle-conditioned. BB Nov. 08, served cool in a large tulip-shaped wine glass.
A: pours an elegant dark reddish brown colour, topped with an ever-lasting, creamy and tight, red-beige frothy head. Looking just fabulous...
S: almost like a Belgian brown ale with beautiful perfumey esters and a touch of mustiness, mixed with red bean paste, fresh leafy herbs, leather, grapey fruits, citrusness from hops, and prevalent (though mild) smokey dark maltiness... For a moment I totally forgot it's mixed with cherries! Yes, the cherries are there, but are mixed seamlessly with everything else, particularly with the tart fruity edge of an English Porter. The aroma is deep and full-bodied, with a refreshing edge.
T: almost like a mild, the malts are so light with a touch of smokiness, chocolates, and mildly sweet treacle... a subtly chewy touch of hops, star-anise, and prunes stay at the back corner, providing all the quiet supplements to the overall fruity as well as nutty-coffee-ish dark maltiness... In the long end the cherry's aroma slowly reveals, taking a sour-bitter-sweet turn. As the tongue gets used to the taste, somehow it feels a bit thin-ish and metallic in the aftertaste.
M&D: absolutely beautiful in terms of bottle-conditioning, creamy, softly carbonated, mellow even... this beer is at its prime, while cork&caging certainly gurantees its ageing potentials. Overall the body gears towards the thin-ish side, but I'd say this is a success overall - an attenuated smoky porter with a delicate twist of cherries designed to sip.
Jun 01, 2008A: pours an elegant dark reddish brown colour, topped with an ever-lasting, creamy and tight, red-beige frothy head. Looking just fabulous...
S: almost like a Belgian brown ale with beautiful perfumey esters and a touch of mustiness, mixed with red bean paste, fresh leafy herbs, leather, grapey fruits, citrusness from hops, and prevalent (though mild) smokey dark maltiness... For a moment I totally forgot it's mixed with cherries! Yes, the cherries are there, but are mixed seamlessly with everything else, particularly with the tart fruity edge of an English Porter. The aroma is deep and full-bodied, with a refreshing edge.
T: almost like a mild, the malts are so light with a touch of smokiness, chocolates, and mildly sweet treacle... a subtly chewy touch of hops, star-anise, and prunes stay at the back corner, providing all the quiet supplements to the overall fruity as well as nutty-coffee-ish dark maltiness... In the long end the cherry's aroma slowly reveals, taking a sour-bitter-sweet turn. As the tongue gets used to the taste, somehow it feels a bit thin-ish and metallic in the aftertaste.
M&D: absolutely beautiful in terms of bottle-conditioning, creamy, softly carbonated, mellow even... this beer is at its prime, while cork&caging certainly gurantees its ageing potentials. Overall the body gears towards the thin-ish side, but I'd say this is a success overall - an attenuated smoky porter with a delicate twist of cherries designed to sip.
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