Porter
Yellowhead Brewery
- From:
- Yellowhead Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 27, 2017
- Added:
- Aug 26, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from the brewery on the only day it makes sense to visit, if you don't live right in downtown Edmonton. Also, not made with honey, but thank you BA for suspecting that I may have been adding a duplicate offering - no, really, thanks!
This beer pours a solid black, with loose basal orange cola edges, and one skinny finger of weakly puffy, and mostly just bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of disintegrating ice shelf lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of lightly roasted, gritty and grainy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, subtle cafe-au-lait notes, a hint of watery black licorice root, and very tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, medium dark chocolate, day-old coffee grounds, a growing anise spiciness, and more understated leafy, earthy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its quotidian frothiness, the body a dense medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a tattered creaminess trying to keep its head above water, essentially. It finishes off-dry, the roasted malt, mocha, and licorice essences carrying on as if there was not a care in the world.
Overall, this is a pleasant and strangely engaging small batch one-off (the bartendress' words) for this relatively tiny brewery in the waning days of summer - so much so, it was indicated solely by a stark blackboard in the taproom, as 'Porter - 5.5%'. That said, it is tasty, and a sign of things to come, once again, eh, Mother Nature?
Aug 27, 2017This beer pours a solid black, with loose basal orange cola edges, and one skinny finger of weakly puffy, and mostly just bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of disintegrating ice shelf lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of lightly roasted, gritty and grainy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, subtle cafe-au-lait notes, a hint of watery black licorice root, and very tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, medium dark chocolate, day-old coffee grounds, a growing anise spiciness, and more understated leafy, earthy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its quotidian frothiness, the body a dense medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a tattered creaminess trying to keep its head above water, essentially. It finishes off-dry, the roasted malt, mocha, and licorice essences carrying on as if there was not a care in the world.
Overall, this is a pleasant and strangely engaging small batch one-off (the bartendress' words) for this relatively tiny brewery in the waning days of summer - so much so, it was indicated solely by a stark blackboard in the taproom, as 'Porter - 5.5%'. That said, it is tasty, and a sign of things to come, once again, eh, Mother Nature?
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