Black Bee
Bee's Knees Brewpub
- From:
- Bee's Knees Brewpub
- Thailand
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.35 | pDev: 29.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 15, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 02, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.35/5 rDev -29.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
2.35/5 rDev -29.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
500ml on-draught @ the brewpub for 165 baht.
4.2-4.5% ABV. English porter. Brewed with challenger and East Kent goldings hops.
HEAD: None. No lacing.
BODY: Dark brown-black, more a cola colour than a porter one. No yeast can be seen within. Opaque.
AROMA: Dark bread, cola, hazelnut, chocolate malt, cookie dough. Aromatic intensity is average. Doesn't suggest a robust porter. Seems a bit too sweet.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Chocolate malts but no (other) dark malts. Brown bread/dark bread character is present, bending this more towards the flavour profile of a schwarzbier or dunkel/Tmavy.
Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, artificially soft (accompanying the saccharine sweetness), overcarbonated. There's not an ideal harmony of texture and taste here.
Crystal malts thin out this weak porter. Not at all robust. I find none of the coffee flavour they claim this features.
OVERALL: It's a nice change of pace from the mediocrity usually sold in Thailand, but as far as regionally available dark beer goes, Beerlao is a better choice. And this just isn't a competitive expression of a porter in terms of the international arena. I'm glad to see some smaller more interesting breweries pop up in Thailand, but this needs work.
D+ (2.35) / NOT RECOMMENDED
Jun 15, 20164.2-4.5% ABV. English porter. Brewed with challenger and East Kent goldings hops.
HEAD: None. No lacing.
BODY: Dark brown-black, more a cola colour than a porter one. No yeast can be seen within. Opaque.
AROMA: Dark bread, cola, hazelnut, chocolate malt, cookie dough. Aromatic intensity is average. Doesn't suggest a robust porter. Seems a bit too sweet.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Chocolate malts but no (other) dark malts. Brown bread/dark bread character is present, bending this more towards the flavour profile of a schwarzbier or dunkel/Tmavy.
Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, artificially soft (accompanying the saccharine sweetness), overcarbonated. There's not an ideal harmony of texture and taste here.
Crystal malts thin out this weak porter. Not at all robust. I find none of the coffee flavour they claim this features.
OVERALL: It's a nice change of pace from the mediocrity usually sold in Thailand, but as far as regionally available dark beer goes, Beerlao is a better choice. And this just isn't a competitive expression of a porter in terms of the international arena. I'm glad to see some smaller more interesting breweries pop up in Thailand, but this needs work.
D+ (2.35) / NOT RECOMMENDED
Reviewed by _drummer_ from China
4.34/5 rDev +29.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +29.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
A great porter. Hints of chocolate and fairly strong in malts. Very dark with a medium head that disappears slowly. Refreshing and quite strong. Lots of carbonation, but not overpowering. I'd get this one again.
Feb 02, 2016
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