Black Dog
Wild Clover Breweries
- From:
- Wild Clover Breweries
- South Africa
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 08, 2017
- Added:
- Feb 04, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
-
-
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.37/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.37/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
340ml bottle, part of a quartet of offerings from this South African craft brewery to recently find their way to Alberta bottleshop shelves. Apparently this one has some smokiness to it.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-cola highlighted brown colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some layered chunky cloud pattern lace around the glass as it slowly and lazily recedes.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, a hint of gamey meatiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, nutty coffee, and some very tame earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a subtle free-range ashiness, medium chocolate, an oily bar-top nuttiness, meek cafe-au-lait, and more understated leafy, weedy, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the job at hand, via its servile frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and yet kind of thin-seeming at the same time, which puts the kibosh on hopes of a late-arriving creaminess. It finishes off-dry, the ever so slightly smoked malt holding fast, while the other esters punch out for the day.
Overall, this comes across as another underwhelming attempt at a style from this brewery (maybe that's just it, they're not trying to nail a style - hmmmmmm). At any rate, this really isn't much of a smoked beer, more of an ill-bred English Porter.
Feb 08, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-cola highlighted brown colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some layered chunky cloud pattern lace around the glass as it slowly and lazily recedes.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, a hint of gamey meatiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, nutty coffee, and some very tame earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a subtle free-range ashiness, medium chocolate, an oily bar-top nuttiness, meek cafe-au-lait, and more understated leafy, weedy, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the job at hand, via its servile frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and yet kind of thin-seeming at the same time, which puts the kibosh on hopes of a late-arriving creaminess. It finishes off-dry, the ever so slightly smoked malt holding fast, while the other esters punch out for the day.
Overall, this comes across as another underwhelming attempt at a style from this brewery (maybe that's just it, they're not trying to nail a style - hmmmmmm). At any rate, this really isn't much of a smoked beer, more of an ill-bred English Porter.
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!