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Lost Souls
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
Ranked #298 - ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #20,024 - Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 10.03%
- Reviews:
- 21
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 07, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 23, 2012
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 16
All treat, no trick: the rich and robust Lost Souls Chocolate Pumpkin Porter is so good, even the living dead will indulge.
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Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.81/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 473ml can.
Not a bad porter the Pumpkin is there but in the background, some nice licorice flavors that stand out.
I bought one to try and that is all i need. An ok Porter though.
Jan 13, 2020Not a bad porter the Pumpkin is there but in the background, some nice licorice flavors that stand out.
I bought one to try and that is all i need. An ok Porter though.
Reviewed by WanderingRonin from Canada (AB)
3.11/5 rDev -17.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.11/5 rDev -17.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Very dark brown in color with some rich plum highlights to it when held up to the light, very fizzy with finger width of brown colored head that has middling retention but leaves a replenishing ring of head along the edge of the glass sustained by the active carbonation.
Sweet aroma to it, good amount of molasses and dark rum to it with some faint licorice notes to it and a note of pumpkin spices on the back-end.
Dark sweet tasting flavor forward, with a dark malty, molasses flavor and some vague back of the palate sour hints of something like a fruity coffee or dark chocolate with some ghostly tannin's tones of a black currant or red wine.
Finishes with no discernible pumpkin flavor to it but with an aromatic brown sugar quality on the palate and some spices on the back-end with little bits of licorice, chicory, cloves and cinnamon that linger onto the aftertaste along with a black coffee sourness and slight boozy rum hints.
Dec 27, 2019Sweet aroma to it, good amount of molasses and dark rum to it with some faint licorice notes to it and a note of pumpkin spices on the back-end.
Dark sweet tasting flavor forward, with a dark malty, molasses flavor and some vague back of the palate sour hints of something like a fruity coffee or dark chocolate with some ghostly tannin's tones of a black currant or red wine.
Finishes with no discernible pumpkin flavor to it but with an aromatic brown sugar quality on the palate and some spices on the back-end with little bits of licorice, chicory, cloves and cinnamon that linger onto the aftertaste along with a black coffee sourness and slight boozy rum hints.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
3.52/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Can: Poured a black color porter with a large light brown foamy head with good retention and light lacing. Aroma of roasted malt with some light chocolate notes and residual sugar notes. Taste is also a mix of light chocolate notes with some light roasted malt notes and some subtle cinnamon notes are also perceptible. Body is light with good carbonation. Not bad but a bit lighter than expected and pumpkin notes are very hard to distinguish.
Nov 10, 2019Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a deep dark brown pushing towards black with a thin mocha head. Aroma is dark chocolate, smooth roasted coffee; not much pumpkin noted. Taste is smooth malty coffee and dark chocolate; very subtle/muted pumpkin. Sweet full bodied finish - yet something I can not explain - this is good but not great.
Oct 12, 2017Rated by booby_hill from Canada (AB)
4.02/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.02/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Unique style done very well
Oct 21, 2016Reviewed by hotmailmsn from Canada (BC)
2.94/5 rDev -22.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.94/5 rDev -22.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
6.5% ABV, 11 IBU, 650ml bottle (2015).
A - dark brown almost black with less than half finger head, which fade out really fast.
S - pumpkin, nutmeg right away, pumpkin pie sweetness, can't really get the porter characteristic from it.
T - reasonable carbonation. decent pumpkin taste, vanilla sweet lingering, dark coco bitterness, surprisingly hoppy as of 11 ibu.
O - it sounds like a very good combination of pumkin ale n a porter, no big expectation so no disappointment. average beer, but it's pumpkin season, gotta have one or two locally.
Oct 15, 2015A - dark brown almost black with less than half finger head, which fade out really fast.
S - pumpkin, nutmeg right away, pumpkin pie sweetness, can't really get the porter characteristic from it.
T - reasonable carbonation. decent pumpkin taste, vanilla sweet lingering, dark coco bitterness, surprisingly hoppy as of 11 ibu.
O - it sounds like a very good combination of pumkin ale n a porter, no big expectation so no disappointment. average beer, but it's pumpkin season, gotta have one or two locally.
Lost Souls from Parallel 49 Brewing Company
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
84 ratings
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