Space Chai-m Continuum
Theoretically Brewing Company
- From:
- Theoretically Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 21, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 17, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - a 'Chai Vanilla Porter'. I guess the confusion over the compliment/complement term when describing food and drink pairings is so widespread that even actual scientists get it wrong.
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with prominent amber basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some random splattered lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of strong cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg spice, bready and doughy caramel malt, vanilla extract, a hint of cafe-au-lait, and some ephemeral earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled seasonal (the current one, that is) spices, medium cocoa powder, real vanilla, day-old coffee grounds, faint wet ash, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-buoying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee spice astringency perhaps taking things down a notch at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, for the reason just mentioned.
Overall - this comes across as a competently rendered Porter, with the guest ingredients evoking something I imagine one might find at your typical hipster java joint. Add to that the very well integrated 17-proof wowee sauce factor, and this will be a nice sipper as night falls on a rather windy and snowy Winter Solstice (at least around here).
Dec 21, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid black, with prominent amber basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some random splattered lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of strong cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg spice, bready and doughy caramel malt, vanilla extract, a hint of cafe-au-lait, and some ephemeral earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled seasonal (the current one, that is) spices, medium cocoa powder, real vanilla, day-old coffee grounds, faint wet ash, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-buoying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee spice astringency perhaps taking things down a notch at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, for the reason just mentioned.
Overall - this comes across as a competently rendered Porter, with the guest ingredients evoking something I imagine one might find at your typical hipster java joint. Add to that the very well integrated 17-proof wowee sauce factor, and this will be a nice sipper as night falls on a rather windy and snowy Winter Solstice (at least around here).
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