Tunney's Porter
Mill Street Brew Pub
- From:
- Mill Street Brew Pub
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.28 | pDev: 5.79%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 25, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 13, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheBierdimpfe from Canada (QC)
2.97/5 rDev -9.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
2.97/5 rDev -9.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Capped: Clear, slightly veiled, brownish copper color. Slightly creamy 2 finger light brown head, lasting around 2 minutes, weak legs and swirl reaction. Flavors of toffee, roasted barley, vanilla, red ale spices, light chocolate and berries, with herbal hops. Slick and oily medium body with crispy carbonation. Light strength finish, mild leafy and spicy feel, mostly grainy and sugary. Cross red ale and porter. Decent freshness, more carbonated than usual for a Porter. A bit faint and under-intensified, simple complexity. Overall average quality craft.
Sep 25, 2018
Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)
3.43/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Cola brown-black with a smallish head. Mild roasted malt nose. Thin body, good crispness but feels weak overall.
Sep 01, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.43/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.43/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
355ml bottle - part of the current Mill Street Canadian Brewpub pack. Made in T-dot (or now 'The Six', apparently), but from the Ottawa brewpub's recipe.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some flock of seagulls pattern lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and biscuity caramel malt, some earthy nuttiness, a bit of free-range char, some black stone fruitiness, and very tame musty, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy cereal malt, bruised apples, faint cocoa powder, some oily bar-top nuts, faded ashy notes, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite restrained in its lame-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting my palate in a bunch at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the nutty malt predominating.
Overall - meh, I'm just not feeling this one, as, despite what I've written, it comes off as too plain and simple. Or maybe I'm just having a bad day - nah, it's the beer that's supposed to cheer me up, not bore the hell out of me.
Aug 09, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some flock of seagulls pattern lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and biscuity caramel malt, some earthy nuttiness, a bit of free-range char, some black stone fruitiness, and very tame musty, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy cereal malt, bruised apples, faint cocoa powder, some oily bar-top nuts, faded ashy notes, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite restrained in its lame-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting my palate in a bunch at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the nutty malt predominating.
Overall - meh, I'm just not feeling this one, as, despite what I've written, it comes off as too plain and simple. Or maybe I'm just having a bad day - nah, it's the beer that's supposed to cheer me up, not bore the hell out of me.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.42/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
355 mL bottle from the LCBO; 1 of 6 included in this year's Brewpub sampler pack. Packaged May 2 2018 and served at cellar temperature.
Rather light in hue for a porter, with a clear copper-brown body featuring deep amber highlights. Impressive head retention - just over one finger of buff-coloured foam is generated at the start, and lasts for longer than I care to wait - even after ten minutes, that thick, creamy cap just ain't going anywhere. The aroma is muted and inconspicuous, but still appropriate for a porter: there's some brown sugar and lightly caramelized malt sweetness, toasted grains and a bit of nuttiness, with very faint suggestions of leafy hops and chocolate.
Tastes fine, with a well-balanced flavour profile, though I'll admit it's nothing to get excited over. Flavours of toasted grain and brown sugar work nicely in conjunction with much fainter suggestions of hazelnut and cocoa. It becomes more bittersweet towards the finish, with leafy, grassy hops effectively counteracting the largely malt-forward front end. Bittersweet aftertaste with some nuttiness that soon fades. Light in body, with low carbonation levels that don't add much to the texture; feels smooth and a bit flat. On the plus side, it's ridiculously easy to toss back.
Final Grade: 3.42, a B-. Tunney's Porter certainly isn't the best beer in this summer's sampler pack, but that's not to say there's anything particularly off-putting about it. Indeed, I found it made for a decent quaff, albeit an entirely forgettable one. In the end, it reminds me of a brown ale more than anything else, so whatever - it's a tolerable session ale.
Jul 09, 2018Rather light in hue for a porter, with a clear copper-brown body featuring deep amber highlights. Impressive head retention - just over one finger of buff-coloured foam is generated at the start, and lasts for longer than I care to wait - even after ten minutes, that thick, creamy cap just ain't going anywhere. The aroma is muted and inconspicuous, but still appropriate for a porter: there's some brown sugar and lightly caramelized malt sweetness, toasted grains and a bit of nuttiness, with very faint suggestions of leafy hops and chocolate.
Tastes fine, with a well-balanced flavour profile, though I'll admit it's nothing to get excited over. Flavours of toasted grain and brown sugar work nicely in conjunction with much fainter suggestions of hazelnut and cocoa. It becomes more bittersweet towards the finish, with leafy, grassy hops effectively counteracting the largely malt-forward front end. Bittersweet aftertaste with some nuttiness that soon fades. Light in body, with low carbonation levels that don't add much to the texture; feels smooth and a bit flat. On the plus side, it's ridiculously easy to toss back.
Final Grade: 3.42, a B-. Tunney's Porter certainly isn't the best beer in this summer's sampler pack, but that's not to say there's anything particularly off-putting about it. Indeed, I found it made for a decent quaff, albeit an entirely forgettable one. In the end, it reminds me of a brown ale more than anything else, so whatever - it's a tolerable session ale.
Reviewed by Borbly from Canada ()
3.02/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.02/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Dark amber in color, with a negligible amount of head forming on the top. It has a fairly hoppy aroma, comprising spice and herbaceousness characteristic of noble hops, and a slightly roasted smokiness, but nothing overly porter-like. The flavours are a bit lacking, with a bit of hops up front and some roastiness in back but really it isn't too interesting, and again, not much like a porter. Not bad as a pale ale maybe, just not a spectacular beer.
Jun 16, 2018
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.25/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Part of the 2018 BrewPub mixed pack. Not too much flavour for a porter.
Jun 13, 2018
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