Irish Stout
The Porterhouse Brewing Company

 

500ml bottle from SuperValu, Lisnaskea (£2.50):
Black with a large, light tan head about 2.5cm & foamy with a little stuck to the sides. It's a dark nose with malts & roasted notes but it's pretty basic & one dimensional thus far. The taste is much the same tbh, some roasted & toasted flavours again, a little bread malt & not a lot else, it's pretty weak. The body is somewhere around medium with a tang & more carbonation that expected but its really disappointing; the Oyster Stout version was miles better.

#1766 - Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
L- Superficially black but held up to a window it is *ultra* deep chestnut brown. Pours with a 2mm mid tan cap of fine bubbles. ps 5mins later, holds very well.
S- Notably roasty-toasty grains.
T- Dry, from hops + a dry 'carbonic' edge of CO2 (as with soda water). Then comes charry/toasty. All in quite pungent...
F- ... and as I've seen with some other recent lower ABV% black beers, when the flavour is relatively pungent and the ABV% low then the Feel seems to tend to come across a thin.
O- I find the dry hops/CO2 aspect rather dominant and the Feel or any suggestion of richness to 'reward the palate' absent. So all a bit austere for me. Now if you a fan of black beer this might work for you as a session beer, or perhaps as a summer beer, where it's lighter style would not be too heavy-going.
500ml bottle BB: 02/2022 £4.10 Bought from BeautifulBeers/BurySt.Edmunds as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London. Very expensive for what I've made of it; not one I buy again.