Reina De Fuego
Dead Frog Brewery
- From:
- Dead Frog Brewery
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 2.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 10, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 27, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Mexican Chocolate Porter
A smooth and sweet , medium bodied porter featuring flavours of chocolate and toffee , with a light hint of chili pepper heat on the finish.
A smooth and sweet , medium bodied porter featuring flavours of chocolate and toffee , with a light hint of chili pepper heat on the finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.01/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
4.01/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Flat chocolate black; milk chocolate + bark; fig and carob, a bit of ash, more dark chocolate, roast and gentle chili hum to end; smooth + round.
4 4.25 4 4 3.75
Not Mexican drinking chocolate - no cinnamon, no vanilla. Mellow - chili wisely stays back + cocoa this there. A bit underattenuated, maybe. Underachieves.
Sep 10, 20184 4.25 4 4 3.75
Not Mexican drinking chocolate - no cinnamon, no vanilla. Mellow - chili wisely stays back + cocoa this there. A bit underattenuated, maybe. Underachieves.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - ah, the Queen of Fire, bringing Mexican mole flavours to a Porter-style brew in way suburban Vancouver.
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle basal red-cola edges, and two fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly brown head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet speck lace in places around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, roasted bittersweet chocolate, mild earthy peppers, musty vanilla beans, a hint of day-old coffee grounds, and very ethereal leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is lightly roasted and bready caramel malt, a growing salsa verde spiciness, stale cocoa powder, earthy artisanal coffee, weakening vanilla notes, a hint of wan dark orchard fruitiness, and more plain earthy, weedy, and somewhat herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its workaday frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth, not with those spicy essences kicking about. It finishes trending dry, the spice and roasted characters pushing out the other sundry base brew elements.
Overall, this is an agreeable enough spiced-up chocolate Porter, the guest Mexican flavours doing well to represent, if in a dialed-down sort of manner. At any rate, this was still much more spicy than I was anticipating from this, let's just say, 'laid-back' brewery, so good on them for amping things up for once in a while.
Feb 28, 2017This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle basal red-cola edges, and two fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly brown head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet speck lace in places around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, roasted bittersweet chocolate, mild earthy peppers, musty vanilla beans, a hint of day-old coffee grounds, and very ethereal leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is lightly roasted and bready caramel malt, a growing salsa verde spiciness, stale cocoa powder, earthy artisanal coffee, weakening vanilla notes, a hint of wan dark orchard fruitiness, and more plain earthy, weedy, and somewhat herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its workaday frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth, not with those spicy essences kicking about. It finishes trending dry, the spice and roasted characters pushing out the other sundry base brew elements.
Overall, this is an agreeable enough spiced-up chocolate Porter, the guest Mexican flavours doing well to represent, if in a dialed-down sort of manner. At any rate, this was still much more spicy than I was anticipating from this, let's just say, 'laid-back' brewery, so good on them for amping things up for once in a while.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.79/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Dead Frog Brewing 'Reina De Fuego' @ 6.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6.25
A-pour is a cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small thin tan head leaving a fine spotty lace film along the pint
S-Mexican ? chocolate
T-mellow chocolate porter
MF-ok carbonation , medium body , bitter chocolate after taste lingers
Ov-ok beer/porter
prost LampertLand
Jan 31, 2017A-pour is a cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small thin tan head leaving a fine spotty lace film along the pint
S-Mexican ? chocolate
T-mellow chocolate porter
MF-ok carbonation , medium body , bitter chocolate after taste lingers
Ov-ok beer/porter
prost LampertLand
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