Proper Treacle
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 12.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 21, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 21, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.51/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.51/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
341ml bottle, day 12 of 'The Great White Wonder Adventure Pack', a collaboration between Central City and Parallel 49 to provide a Beer Advent (I can say that, even if they can't) holiday experience. A 'proper London Porter'.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly just fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of low-lying microbial lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of sour milk, gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-agent ashiness, day-old coffee, bittersweet cocoa powder, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hops. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a much lesser caramel sweetness, tart black stone fruit, spoiled milk, roasted coffee, stale chocolate, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the char and sour notes make for a tough sell here. It finishes trending dry, with the just-mentioned esters running the lingering show.
Overall - I suppose that this is pretty much a true to style offering, but I'm having a bit of difficulty really getting into it. And the name - there's nothing treacly going on here whatsoever, however, I may just be missing the point.
Dec 12, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly just fizzy tan head, which leaves a bit of low-lying microbial lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of sour milk, gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-agent ashiness, day-old coffee, bittersweet cocoa powder, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hops. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a much lesser caramel sweetness, tart black stone fruit, spoiled milk, roasted coffee, stale chocolate, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the char and sour notes make for a tough sell here. It finishes trending dry, with the just-mentioned esters running the lingering show.
Overall - I suppose that this is pretty much a true to style offering, but I'm having a bit of difficulty really getting into it. And the name - there's nothing treacly going on here whatsoever, however, I may just be missing the point.
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