Marks & Spencer Maritime Salted Caramel Porter
Meantime Brewing Company Limited
- From:
- Meantime Brewing Company Limited
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.29 | pDev: 20.67%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 07, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 04, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
1.79/5 rDev -45.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
1.79/5 rDev -45.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75
L Pours like a glass of cola. Deep chestnut, thin off-white head clearing unusually slowly.
S Smokey and sweetish
T Oh heavens! Thin, bitter, so bitter I winced hard as I swallowed.
F If asked the Alc% on this in a blind tasting I'd have guessed a maximum of 3.5% as the body comes over as that 'thin' to me. The fact it is 5.5% is astounding; it appears that the dominating bitter notes thoroughly mask it.
O A confusing array of aims in the recipe have perhaps produced a confusing result. I don't think I've drunk anything like it before and shall not be buying more of this beer. I don't get much if any salt nor sweet flavour from this, but what I do get to the max is apparent thin-ness and bitterness.
Aug 07, 2018S Smokey and sweetish
T Oh heavens! Thin, bitter, so bitter I winced hard as I swallowed.
F If asked the Alc% on this in a blind tasting I'd have guessed a maximum of 3.5% as the body comes over as that 'thin' to me. The fact it is 5.5% is astounding; it appears that the dominating bitter notes thoroughly mask it.
O A confusing array of aims in the recipe have perhaps produced a confusing result. I don't think I've drunk anything like it before and shall not be buying more of this beer. I don't get much if any salt nor sweet flavour from this, but what I do get to the max is apparent thin-ness and bitterness.
Reviewed by Spike from England
2.33/5 rDev -29.2%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
2.33/5 rDev -29.2%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
From a 330ml bottle.
L: Dark amber colour. Easy to see through. Several streams of bubbles rising to a thin, tan head.
S: Cocoa with soft toffee. Not bad.
T: Tastes like artificially sweetened, flavoured water. Really, really insipid. A look at the ingredients reveals not chocolate malt and/or real caramel (sugar, water, cream) but caramel flavouring. Ghastly!
F: Thin and watery.
O: A hopeless, limp example of a porter from a brewery that has really lost its way. Whose fault is this? M&S or Asahi? Meantime was acquired by SABMiller in 2015 and sold on again to Asahi in 2016. This is as close to being a craft beer as a Grolsch (who contract brewed Meantime's 'London Lager' for a period of time).
May 16, 2017L: Dark amber colour. Easy to see through. Several streams of bubbles rising to a thin, tan head.
S: Cocoa with soft toffee. Not bad.
T: Tastes like artificially sweetened, flavoured water. Really, really insipid. A look at the ingredients reveals not chocolate malt and/or real caramel (sugar, water, cream) but caramel flavouring. Ghastly!
F: Thin and watery.
O: A hopeless, limp example of a porter from a brewery that has really lost its way. Whose fault is this? M&S or Asahi? Meantime was acquired by SABMiller in 2015 and sold on again to Asahi in 2016. This is as close to being a craft beer as a Grolsch (who contract brewed Meantime's 'London Lager' for a period of time).
Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.29/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.29/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
330 ml bottle in Edinburgh.
Pours dark brown but very clear with a decent yet short-lived head.
Slight smoky aroma features caramel.
Lightly sweet flavor with caramel and vanilla.
Aug 16, 2016Pours dark brown but very clear with a decent yet short-lived head.
Slight smoky aroma features caramel.
Lightly sweet flavor with caramel and vanilla.
Rated by Timelec from England
2.5/5 rDev -24%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 1 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -24%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 1 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
tastes like metal
Mar 05, 2016Reviewed by vinicole from England
3.74/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Dark amber colour. Light beige and frothy head.
Sweet and tangy aroma.
The taste reflects the label with a hint of chocolate.
Lacks complexity. Rather thin but very drinkable.
Jan 07, 2016Sweet and tangy aroma.
The taste reflects the label with a hint of chocolate.
Lacks complexity. Rather thin but very drinkable.
Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England
3.38/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Bottled
Cola looking body chocolate milkshake froth head
Treacle & stomach acid aroma
There is a great salted caramel flavour up front that mellows to crusha chocolate milkshake
feels a little thin
get past the awful smell & its a good if one dimensional ale
Oct 30, 2015Cola looking body chocolate milkshake froth head
Treacle & stomach acid aroma
There is a great salted caramel flavour up front that mellows to crusha chocolate milkshake
feels a little thin
get past the awful smell & its a good if one dimensional ale
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