Larch Valley Porter
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 5.7%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 2.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 02, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 25, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.99/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a 473ml can.
Appearance - Pours a dark chocolate brown with two fingers of foamy mocha head.
Smell - roasted malts, cocoa, smoky aromas, coffee bean, earthy and leafy hops, and earthy yeast.
Taste - roasted malts, cocoa, smokiness, and coffee bean upfront. The earthy and leafy hops and earthy yeast come through next and finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with the roasted malts, cocoa, smokiness and coffee bean lingering.
Overall - A highly drinkable and flavourful porter from the folks at Grizzly Paw. This certainly is perfect for the cool and snowy evening here in Cowtown!
Dec 02, 2018Appearance - Pours a dark chocolate brown with two fingers of foamy mocha head.
Smell - roasted malts, cocoa, smoky aromas, coffee bean, earthy and leafy hops, and earthy yeast.
Taste - roasted malts, cocoa, smokiness, and coffee bean upfront. The earthy and leafy hops and earthy yeast come through next and finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with the roasted malts, cocoa, smokiness and coffee bean lingering.
Overall - A highly drinkable and flavourful porter from the folks at Grizzly Paw. This certainly is perfect for the cool and snowy evening here in Cowtown!
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - so named after a nearby valley where hiking is apparently popular in the Banff/Canmore area.
This beer pours a solid black abyss, with subtle amber basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy beige head, which leaves some roiling sea froth lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, some free-range ashiness, faint dark orchard fruity notes, weak cafe-au-lait, and some tame earthy, leafy, and dead floral noble green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, day-old coffee grounds, sort of spoiled milk, an ephemeral black stone fruitiness, and more well understated earthy, musty, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and basically smooth as one can imagine, with a nice creaminess settling in like it owned the joint from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the gently smoked caramel and mocha essences battening down the hatches.
Overall, this is an enjoyable and robust version of the style, nice and level in its bearing, with a mere ode to the Old-School hops (and a few apish newcomers). Kind of dessert-worthy, I would imagine, even with the shitty example of a home-made cake that I made for my little guy's 4th b-day this afternoon - yeah, following instructions doesn't always pan out - life lesson numero uno.
Mar 30, 2017This beer pours a solid black abyss, with subtle amber basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy beige head, which leaves some roiling sea froth lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, some free-range ashiness, faint dark orchard fruity notes, weak cafe-au-lait, and some tame earthy, leafy, and dead floral noble green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, day-old coffee grounds, sort of spoiled milk, an ephemeral black stone fruitiness, and more well understated earthy, musty, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and basically smooth as one can imagine, with a nice creaminess settling in like it owned the joint from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the gently smoked caramel and mocha essences battening down the hatches.
Overall, this is an enjoyable and robust version of the style, nice and level in its bearing, with a mere ode to the Old-School hops (and a few apish newcomers). Kind of dessert-worthy, I would imagine, even with the shitty example of a home-made cake that I made for my little guy's 4th b-day this afternoon - yeah, following instructions doesn't always pan out - life lesson numero uno.
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