Distelhäuser Black Pearl Classic Porter
Distelhäuser Brauerei

Review: 0,33l Bottle of Black Pearl Classic Porter: ABV: 6.6% vol

Comes in a nice bottle with a lovely looking logo, black writing on a nice yellow background.

The appearance was one of a lovely frothy tan head, as expected a very dark black beer with hints of purple.
The head does die a death and eventually goes flat near the end.

Flat. Looks all a bit shitty really.

Has a really lovely porter smell, nice. Really good smell, not faint but striking of roasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate, light caramel.

On the taste side of things, found it very hoppy!!

Bit dry in the mouth.

Not much to taste, just the hops in the end.

All in the back end, hoppy, no coffee, no toffee, very disappointing, this is meant to be a porter after all. Could smell them on the nose but they vanished when it came to the taste!

Relatively smooth with the roasted malts, but it is a porter and you expect some of the porter tastes and characteristics, or at least I couldn’t detect them
Disappointing.

 

From the bottle, it pours a moderately dark brown with a small head, diminishing to a thin layer. Vanilla and malt in the nose. In the mouth, it is primarily roasted malt. Nice!

Very dark brown, clear colour. Sweet dark malts, vanilla and toasted grains on the nose. Medium-bodied and sweet chocolate malts throughout, with a heavily roasted grain finish that lingers, with a bit of skunky, earthy hops.