Sour Black Donald
The North Brewery
- From:
- The North Brewery
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.36 | pDev: 12.39%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 04, 2015
- Added:
- Aug 20, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Black Donald porter aged in rye whiskey barrels with Lactobacillus.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BurgeoningBrewhead from Pennsylvania
4/5 rDev -8.3%
4/5 rDev -8.3%
Poured into North Brewery fluted snifter/fat tulip; jet black with a thin brown head from a hard pour. Head is made of large bubbles but leaves tiny lacing as it descends.
Smells like a barrel-aged dark beer; cocoa, toffee, whiskey, vanilla, oak. Only a slight hint of the sour in the scent.
Taste is just as you'd expect...a sour porter. The sourness is well-balanced though; if you didn't know there was Lacto in the barrel with it you could almost ascribe the flavor completely to barrel character.
Mouthfeel is slick and smooth, medium-bodied.
Overall, I like this one a lot better than the original Black Donald. The Lactobacillus adds a unique flavor to it that really makes it awesome.
Aug 20, 2014Smells like a barrel-aged dark beer; cocoa, toffee, whiskey, vanilla, oak. Only a slight hint of the sour in the scent.
Taste is just as you'd expect...a sour porter. The sourness is well-balanced though; if you didn't know there was Lacto in the barrel with it you could almost ascribe the flavor completely to barrel character.
Mouthfeel is slick and smooth, medium-bodied.
Overall, I like this one a lot better than the original Black Donald. The Lactobacillus adds a unique flavor to it that really makes it awesome.
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