Honey Porter
Yellowhead Brewery
- From:
- Yellowhead Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 4.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 12, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 07, 2016
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.87/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass at Beer Revolution - so, Yellowhead finally makes an ale!
This beer appears a clear, dark ruby-tinted brown colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves a splendid array of pockmarked limestone cliff lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds off.
It smells of semi-sweet chocolate syrup, bready caramel malt, a touch of free-range ashiness, muddled black orchard fruit, gritty earthy honey, suggestions of cafe-au-lait, and very subtle leafy and floral hop bitters. The taste is right in line with the aroma - a decent dose of bittersweet cold cocoa, crackery caramel malt, a rather laid-back honey sweetness, vaguely sour milk-laced coffee, a bit of fruity nuttiness, and more weak earthy and leafy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its mostly frivolous frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes well off-dry, with a near full complement of cocoa, caramel, and background support honey.
Well, for a first crack at the top-fermenting game, Yellowhead has done a good job of releasing a very flavourful and rounded (I'm just glad that they aren't calling it 'robust') porter in the (currently so-called) winter, as opposed to some sort of beginner's pale ale. Easy enough to drink, and a sign of impressive things to come, one might hope.
Feb 07, 2016This beer appears a clear, dark ruby-tinted brown colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves a splendid array of pockmarked limestone cliff lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds off.
It smells of semi-sweet chocolate syrup, bready caramel malt, a touch of free-range ashiness, muddled black orchard fruit, gritty earthy honey, suggestions of cafe-au-lait, and very subtle leafy and floral hop bitters. The taste is right in line with the aroma - a decent dose of bittersweet cold cocoa, crackery caramel malt, a rather laid-back honey sweetness, vaguely sour milk-laced coffee, a bit of fruity nuttiness, and more weak earthy and leafy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its mostly frivolous frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes well off-dry, with a near full complement of cocoa, caramel, and background support honey.
Well, for a first crack at the top-fermenting game, Yellowhead has done a good job of releasing a very flavourful and rounded (I'm just glad that they aren't calling it 'robust') porter in the (currently so-called) winter, as opposed to some sort of beginner's pale ale. Easy enough to drink, and a sign of impressive things to come, one might hope.
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