Brown Porter
Auberge Sutton Brouërie
- From:
- Auberge Sutton Brouërie
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.07 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 25, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 25, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Blend of 30% Porter Iroquois aged in Ardbeg barrels and 70% Brune Alpine.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
3.07/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
3.07/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Serving: Bottle
Bottled: May-22-2019 (Consumed Feb-23-2020)
It pours pitch black with a billowing, rocky tan head that is around for the duration. Good lacing. The nose is most definitely scotch-tinted. Some chocolate, caramel and red fruits underneath, though, to hint at offsetting it. Flavor-wise it is also pretty scotchy, but not bad compared to some similar beers I've had. Not boozy, for one. The porter flavor is a little hollow. Some hard water and toasty flavors overlaid with mellow, smoky, spicy, scotch notes.
It honestly tastes a lot like a scotch and soda made with water from a mud puddle. Not terribly porter-like I'm afraid. It is fizzy and pretty thin with a lingering barrel astringency that isn't detrimental but which doesn't do it any favors either. All in all this is an okay beer that I will finish and enjoy well enough (scotch and soda's my go-to cocktail on the rare occasion I am not drinking beer, after all); but I don't feel that here it did a great job of being what it is supposed to be (a porter) or wowing me (having balance). It is nice to have a measured scotch presence, but other than that this is just another on the list of beers where I don't feel like the scotch barrel helped. Oh well. Can't win 'em all.
4...3.25...3...3...2.75
Feb 25, 2020Bottled: May-22-2019 (Consumed Feb-23-2020)
It pours pitch black with a billowing, rocky tan head that is around for the duration. Good lacing. The nose is most definitely scotch-tinted. Some chocolate, caramel and red fruits underneath, though, to hint at offsetting it. Flavor-wise it is also pretty scotchy, but not bad compared to some similar beers I've had. Not boozy, for one. The porter flavor is a little hollow. Some hard water and toasty flavors overlaid with mellow, smoky, spicy, scotch notes.
It honestly tastes a lot like a scotch and soda made with water from a mud puddle. Not terribly porter-like I'm afraid. It is fizzy and pretty thin with a lingering barrel astringency that isn't detrimental but which doesn't do it any favors either. All in all this is an okay beer that I will finish and enjoy well enough (scotch and soda's my go-to cocktail on the rare occasion I am not drinking beer, after all); but I don't feel that here it did a great job of being what it is supposed to be (a porter) or wowing me (having balance). It is nice to have a measured scotch presence, but other than that this is just another on the list of beers where I don't feel like the scotch barrel helped. Oh well. Can't win 'em all.
4...3.25...3...3...2.75
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