FistFul Of Porters
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Robust Porter
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 19, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 12, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Bright hints of coffee and chocolate with slights notes of toffee and caramel. Finishes with a light drying at the end of the palate. End out winter with this robust porter, sure to warm your heart and tastebuds.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.84/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - the name is a play on those 'fistful of quarters' that one had to use to play arcade video games back in the day.
This beer pours a clear (I think), dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly melts away.
It smells of lightly roasted, bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, day-old coffee grounds, a faint black stone fruitiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, bruised red apples, medium chocolate wafers, cafe-au-lait, and more understated leafy, floral, and musky hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really going out of its way to be a nuisance at this point in the process. It finishes trending dry, the toastiness rushing on into that lingering end zone.
Overall - this comes across as a well-rendered version of the Porter sub-style, definitely complex and full of flavour. It literally is the tail end of winter today, and the snowbanks are retreating nice and evenly. Of course, we'll get a big dump in May, or something.
Mar 19, 2019This beer pours a clear (I think), dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly melts away.
It smells of lightly roasted, bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, day-old coffee grounds, a faint black stone fruitiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, bruised red apples, medium chocolate wafers, cafe-au-lait, and more understated leafy, floral, and musky hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really going out of its way to be a nuisance at this point in the process. It finishes trending dry, the toastiness rushing on into that lingering end zone.
Overall - this comes across as a well-rendered version of the Porter sub-style, definitely complex and full of flavour. It literally is the tail end of winter today, and the snowbanks are retreating nice and evenly. Of course, we'll get a big dump in May, or something.
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