Heart of Chambers
Whiplash Brewing
- From:
- Whiplash Brewing
- Ireland
- Style:
- Imperial Porter
- ABV:
- 7.1%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 7.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 31, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 22, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.69/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Copenhagen 10/1 2021. 44 cl can from Mikkeller web-shop. What looks like a pretty chaotic dresser with clothes and coffee beans spilling out.
Pours opaque, dark brown with a big beige head. Settles as thin layer of foam just covering the surface of the beer. Moderate lacing.
Aroma is intense with a sweet malty slightly roasted odor mingling with coffee. Caramel and brown sugar. Roasted dark malts. Coffee grinds. Earthy touch.
Light carbonation. Smooth, soft, creamy, silken texture. Very light tingling touch.
Flavor is fairly intense with a strong sweetness followed by a medium strong coffee bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter with a sugary undertone. Lingers for a while. Finish is semi-dry.
A very coffee flavored Porter with s lump of sugar or two.
Mar 31, 2025Pours opaque, dark brown with a big beige head. Settles as thin layer of foam just covering the surface of the beer. Moderate lacing.
Aroma is intense with a sweet malty slightly roasted odor mingling with coffee. Caramel and brown sugar. Roasted dark malts. Coffee grinds. Earthy touch.
Light carbonation. Smooth, soft, creamy, silken texture. Very light tingling touch.
Flavor is fairly intense with a strong sweetness followed by a medium strong coffee bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter with a sugary undertone. Lingers for a while. Finish is semi-dry.
A very coffee flavored Porter with s lump of sugar or two.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.75/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Small sample, on tap at Cardinal, Stavanger. Black colour, moderate tan head. Distinct aroma and flavour of chocolate and coffee, hints of vanilla. Not too sweet.
Mar 16, 2024
Reviewed by misteil from Ireland
3.65/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
the most intensely coffee flavoured beer i’ve ever had. straight up tastes like drinking a cold brew coffee, which unfortunately i do not care for. this is a relatively pleasant porter - well made, nice sweet caramel flavours and dark chocolate - but the coffee flavour is overwhelming for me personally.
Aug 26, 2022
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
3.41/5 rDev -11.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -11.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
L- Black, as in seriously black-black. One of the darkest tan heads (3mm creamy ultra-fine bubbles) I've seen on a beer. Zero chance of seeing if it's poured clear or with sediment.
S- Clear and prominent deep roast coffee. Nothing else seems to get past that.
T- OOF!! This is likely the most (seriously) deeply coffee flavoured beers I've ever had. That aspect is honestly immediate and massive. This is the first beer I'm having today but still the impact is immense. (Tip: don't plan of tasting anything delicate for a while after this one...). It's deeply roasty-toasty, very pungent.
F- Big, hugely impactful, I can only sip away at this one slowly.
O- I suspect you'll need to like hefty black coffee or espresso to get on with this beer - I do, drink it every morning, so no probs, but why wife isn't a coffee drinker and I won't even bother offering her a sip, she'd hate it... It's so pungent the coffee note is a kind of great divider. I'm enjoying it as an experience but there's no discussion to be had, the coffee note entirely dominates here, and arguably over-dominates. I haven't read the can yet, but if this aspect derives from added coffee then I wonder, should I be impressed or disappointed?... I'm a bit trad at times and don't lean towards heavy to the point of over-dominating alt. ingredients. Hard to rate as almost the entirety of it is defined as 'THAT coffee'.
440ml can £4.20 BB: 18/08/2021 Bought from TremblingMadness/York as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
>Now I'll read the can, it's unfilt./unpast. Yep coffee is an added ingredient, and presumably a lot of it... ho hum, I've scored the ratings^ but will now drop the Taste by 0.5 and Overall by 0.25...
Jan 28, 2021S- Clear and prominent deep roast coffee. Nothing else seems to get past that.
T- OOF!! This is likely the most (seriously) deeply coffee flavoured beers I've ever had. That aspect is honestly immediate and massive. This is the first beer I'm having today but still the impact is immense. (Tip: don't plan of tasting anything delicate for a while after this one...). It's deeply roasty-toasty, very pungent.
F- Big, hugely impactful, I can only sip away at this one slowly.
O- I suspect you'll need to like hefty black coffee or espresso to get on with this beer - I do, drink it every morning, so no probs, but why wife isn't a coffee drinker and I won't even bother offering her a sip, she'd hate it... It's so pungent the coffee note is a kind of great divider. I'm enjoying it as an experience but there's no discussion to be had, the coffee note entirely dominates here, and arguably over-dominates. I haven't read the can yet, but if this aspect derives from added coffee then I wonder, should I be impressed or disappointed?... I'm a bit trad at times and don't lean towards heavy to the point of over-dominating alt. ingredients. Hard to rate as almost the entirety of it is defined as 'THAT coffee'.
440ml can £4.20 BB: 18/08/2021 Bought from TremblingMadness/York as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
>Now I'll read the can, it's unfilt./unpast. Yep coffee is an added ingredient, and presumably a lot of it... ho hum, I've scored the ratings^ but will now drop the Taste by 0.5 and Overall by 0.25...
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.19/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Growler from The Big Romance, Dublin
Coffee on the nose with hints of molasses and walnut; licorice, baker’s chocolate, caramel, a cafe au lait hit in the middle, and some char and spice to end; round, chewy, smooth.
3.75 4 4.25 4.5 4.25
3FE is the grandaddy of new school Irish coffee roasters, so this should give a more nuanced, medium roast palate of flavours rather than Starbucks ash. That doesn’t really happen - any high notes are gone - but it does bring clean, focused coffee tones.
What gets noticed first, though, on both the nose + the tongue is that the base porter is allowed to come through, with molasses + anise. It could use a touch of roast or hops for balance, but that’s upgrading rather than correcting.
Body seals the deal: silky + substantial, with noticeable benefit from the oatmeal.
A deep, satisfying winter sipper.
One complaint: “double porter”? There’s already a word for that: stout!
Outside of KBS, maybe the best coffee stout I’ve had.
*from notes
Jan 08, 2021Coffee on the nose with hints of molasses and walnut; licorice, baker’s chocolate, caramel, a cafe au lait hit in the middle, and some char and spice to end; round, chewy, smooth.
3.75 4 4.25 4.5 4.25
3FE is the grandaddy of new school Irish coffee roasters, so this should give a more nuanced, medium roast palate of flavours rather than Starbucks ash. That doesn’t really happen - any high notes are gone - but it does bring clean, focused coffee tones.
What gets noticed first, though, on both the nose + the tongue is that the base porter is allowed to come through, with molasses + anise. It could use a touch of roast or hops for balance, but that’s upgrading rather than correcting.
Body seals the deal: silky + substantial, with noticeable benefit from the oatmeal.
A deep, satisfying winter sipper.
One complaint: “double porter”? There’s already a word for that: stout!
Outside of KBS, maybe the best coffee stout I’ve had.
*from notes
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