Highway 666 Robust Porter
Grain Bin Brewing Company
- From:
- Grain Bin Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Robust Porter
- ABV:
- 8.8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 4.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 06, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 03, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver - nice to see more of this Grande Prairie brewery's offerings available around here!
This beer appears a very dark, essentially opaque brown colour, with one rather skinny finger of wispy and faintly bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of roiling sea swell lace around the glass as things slowly recede.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some bittersweet chocolate, a touch of free-range ashiness, black licorice, tame cafe-au-lait notes, and some mild leafy and certainly perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, chocolate liqueur, lightly soured milk, creamed coffee, Scandinavian anise candies, and a further understated leafy, citrusy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its workaday frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a wee hint of alcohol ingress putting a minor damper on things. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, cocoa, and booze all coalescing as such.
Overall, Highway 666 comes across as a well-made big (is that what is actually meant by 'robust' in these parts?) porter. Yeah, the wowee sauce quotient is perceptible almost from the get-go, but eventually integrates into the whole. A nice tipple on a more appropriately cool and very rainy November day.
Nov 06, 2016This beer appears a very dark, essentially opaque brown colour, with one rather skinny finger of wispy and faintly bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of roiling sea swell lace around the glass as things slowly recede.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some bittersweet chocolate, a touch of free-range ashiness, black licorice, tame cafe-au-lait notes, and some mild leafy and certainly perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, chocolate liqueur, lightly soured milk, creamed coffee, Scandinavian anise candies, and a further understated leafy, citrusy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly low-key in its workaday frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a wee hint of alcohol ingress putting a minor damper on things. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, cocoa, and booze all coalescing as such.
Overall, Highway 666 comes across as a well-made big (is that what is actually meant by 'robust' in these parts?) porter. Yeah, the wowee sauce quotient is perceptible almost from the get-go, but eventually integrates into the whole. A nice tipple on a more appropriately cool and very rainy November day.
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