Rice Pudding Porter
4 Mile Brewing Co.
- From:
- 4 Mile Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 6.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 04, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 30, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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Not your grandma's rice pudding. Fragrant , delicate spices of vanilla , cinnamon and clove mingle with brown rice to beguile. Round, plump lusciousness lingers. Speed date with elk game pie or frozen cherry cheesecake right from the tin container.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ChrisCage from Canada (AB)
4.11/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.11/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Purchased Jan 3/19....excited to try this intriguing sounding Porter!
A- Pours a creamy looking black/brown color with a super creamy and puffy caramel colored head that has some retention, but does disappear slowly after the first couple of minutes into a thick-in-spots layer over the brew. The lacing is sloppy, looking like it wants to cling to the inside of the glass, but then swiftly loses its battle with gravity and drains back into the beer. Carbonation is too hard to see of course.....
S- This is interesting to smell, with some baking spices (dominant cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar), some fresh spiced apple, creamy rice pudding dessert, alongside subtle notes of vanilla, milky chocolate and clove to finish things off. Everything overall is softly scented and nothing really stands out but it is rich at the same time.
T- The flavors are gentle overall, and I do detect lots of cream, yeast and tea biscuit upfront, with cleansing rice keeping everything at bay. Baking spices, such as soft cinnamon, nutmeg, hints of clove and vanilla help add some kick to dry Earthy dark chocolate and naturally sweet Honduran coffee. Its a delicate sweetness on the palate.....
M/O- Medium-full in body and the carbonation is velvety smooth too. The delicate aromas/flavors make this an easy going porter that hides the alcohol well, gives off dessert like nuances throughout yet still has a solid charred malt base. I think the drinkability of this one is good and have no problem enjoying the entire 650ml bottle to myself. If I could improve anything, I would find a way to intensify the flavors in the recipe and really make this one stand out, which I think it lacks so to speak, otherwise this is a decent brew, that I recommend....especially to those wanting to get into the style or doesn't particularly like or want bold flavor. Cheers!
Jan 04, 2019A- Pours a creamy looking black/brown color with a super creamy and puffy caramel colored head that has some retention, but does disappear slowly after the first couple of minutes into a thick-in-spots layer over the brew. The lacing is sloppy, looking like it wants to cling to the inside of the glass, but then swiftly loses its battle with gravity and drains back into the beer. Carbonation is too hard to see of course.....
S- This is interesting to smell, with some baking spices (dominant cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar), some fresh spiced apple, creamy rice pudding dessert, alongside subtle notes of vanilla, milky chocolate and clove to finish things off. Everything overall is softly scented and nothing really stands out but it is rich at the same time.
T- The flavors are gentle overall, and I do detect lots of cream, yeast and tea biscuit upfront, with cleansing rice keeping everything at bay. Baking spices, such as soft cinnamon, nutmeg, hints of clove and vanilla help add some kick to dry Earthy dark chocolate and naturally sweet Honduran coffee. Its a delicate sweetness on the palate.....
M/O- Medium-full in body and the carbonation is velvety smooth too. The delicate aromas/flavors make this an easy going porter that hides the alcohol well, gives off dessert like nuances throughout yet still has a solid charred malt base. I think the drinkability of this one is good and have no problem enjoying the entire 650ml bottle to myself. If I could improve anything, I would find a way to intensify the flavors in the recipe and really make this one stand out, which I think it lacks so to speak, otherwise this is a decent brew, that I recommend....especially to those wanting to get into the style or doesn't particularly like or want bold flavor. Cheers!
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - not exactly a seasonal offering right now, but still adjacent enough.
This beer pours a clear, very dark brown colour, with some loose basal red cola edges, and two fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some overzealous rocky promontory lace around the glass as it rather quickly abates.
It smells of bready and biscuity caramel malt, some plain chalky cocoa powder, cinnamon and clove spice, a touch of day-old cafe-au-lait, maybe a hint of risotto on the rise, and some very plain earthy, leafy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of toffee sweetness, bland dollar-store vanilla notes, subtle hints of rice pudding esters, muddled earthy spice (ok, cinnamon the most prominent), and some weak weedy, leafy, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its barely supportive frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising as things move out of basement beer fridge temperatures - amirite? It finishes off-dry, the veritable rice pudding sweetness lingering amongst the base caramel and toffee esters that might be in the market for a standoff, as such.
Overall, this is an indeterminately flavoured offering wherein the base porter struggles to contain the guest ingredients - the cinnamon and friends spice, generic vanilla, and seemingly uninterested rice attempting to run the asylum. Easy enough to drink, in a minor holiday sense, but really nothing beyond that, I'm afraid.
Nov 30, 2016This beer pours a clear, very dark brown colour, with some loose basal red cola edges, and two fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some overzealous rocky promontory lace around the glass as it rather quickly abates.
It smells of bready and biscuity caramel malt, some plain chalky cocoa powder, cinnamon and clove spice, a touch of day-old cafe-au-lait, maybe a hint of risotto on the rise, and some very plain earthy, leafy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of toffee sweetness, bland dollar-store vanilla notes, subtle hints of rice pudding esters, muddled earthy spice (ok, cinnamon the most prominent), and some weak weedy, leafy, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its barely supportive frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising as things move out of basement beer fridge temperatures - amirite? It finishes off-dry, the veritable rice pudding sweetness lingering amongst the base caramel and toffee esters that might be in the market for a standoff, as such.
Overall, this is an indeterminately flavoured offering wherein the base porter struggles to contain the guest ingredients - the cinnamon and friends spice, generic vanilla, and seemingly uninterested rice attempting to run the asylum. Easy enough to drink, in a minor holiday sense, but really nothing beyond that, I'm afraid.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.98/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4 Mile Brewpub 'Rice Pudding Porter' @ 6.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $7.25
A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small tan head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-vanilla , cinnamon , clove
T-sweet start with a slight funky finish , too much clove
MF-ok carbonation , big medium body
Ov-just an ok porter & beer
prost LampertLand
Jan 25, 2016A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small tan head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-vanilla , cinnamon , clove
T-sweet start with a slight funky finish , too much clove
MF-ok carbonation , big medium body
Ov-just an ok porter & beer
prost LampertLand
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