Cuddly As A Cactus
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 3.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 31, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 23, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a dark cola brown with two fingers of creamy tan head.
Smell - roasted malts, cocoa, cherries, earthy and leafy hops, and earthy yeast.
Taste - The roasted malts upfront followed by the cocoa, earthy and leafy hops. The earthy yeast follows suit. The cherry flavours are very subtle.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth.
Overall - A agreeable porter, but it lacks in its promise of "chocolate cherry" flavour which is disappointing.
Dec 31, 2017Smell - roasted malts, cocoa, cherries, earthy and leafy hops, and earthy yeast.
Taste - The roasted malts upfront followed by the cocoa, earthy and leafy hops. The earthy yeast follows suit. The cherry flavours are very subtle.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth.
Overall - A agreeable porter, but it lacks in its promise of "chocolate cherry" flavour which is disappointing.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev +3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - I added this one to the database here almost a year ago, as I was ordering a pint of it at Beer Revolution, and then, of course, the keg kicked. Ah well, good to have this 'chocolate cherry porter' in front of me now.
This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with one thick finger of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly beige head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet lace around the glass as things quickly progress.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, faint cocoa powder, some cherry and mixed berry fruitiness, subtle cafe-au-lait, and very tame earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, fading sweet cherry notes, cold coffee, a hint of black licorice, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly inert in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a good time here. It finishes off-dry, the malt sort of squashing any lingering aspirations of the guest ingredients.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough holiday-themed tipple, with the chocolate and cherry essences coming in kind of under the radar. And kudos for using just the right amount of Grinch homage on the label to avoid movie house litigation.
Nov 13, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with one thick finger of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly beige head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet lace around the glass as things quickly progress.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, faint cocoa powder, some cherry and mixed berry fruitiness, subtle cafe-au-lait, and very tame earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, fading sweet cherry notes, cold coffee, a hint of black licorice, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly inert in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a good time here. It finishes off-dry, the malt sort of squashing any lingering aspirations of the guest ingredients.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough holiday-themed tipple, with the chocolate and cherry essences coming in kind of under the radar. And kudos for using just the right amount of Grinch homage on the label to avoid movie house litigation.
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