Pacific Northwest Porter
Granville Island Brewery
- From:
- Granville Island Brewery
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 1.9%
- Reviews:
- 1
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 19, 2019
- Added:
- Apr 09, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - seems like they've made a west-coast Porter before. Ah well, everything old is new again.
This beer pours a fairly solid, very dark, amber edged brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and pitted tan head, which leaves some stellar old forest growth pattern lace around the glass as it slowly but surely abates.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range char, some muddled red berry fruitiness, subtle cafe-au-lait, bittersweet cocoa powder, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is lightly roasted, bready and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, day-old coffee grounds, some mixed citrus and berry fruity esters, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is sort of laid-back in its innocuous-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of burnt java taking things down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, the mocha, malt, and fading hops the order of the lingering day.
Overall - while this is a well-made version of the style, I'm getting a lot more coffee, than the brash hops alluded to by the brewery. Easy to drink, sure, but kind of boring by the same sword, which has this long-term observer not the least bit surprised.
Apr 10, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid, very dark, amber edged brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and pitted tan head, which leaves some stellar old forest growth pattern lace around the glass as it slowly but surely abates.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range char, some muddled red berry fruitiness, subtle cafe-au-lait, bittersweet cocoa powder, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is lightly roasted, bready and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, day-old coffee grounds, some mixed citrus and berry fruity esters, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is sort of laid-back in its innocuous-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of burnt java taking things down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, the mocha, malt, and fading hops the order of the lingering day.
Overall - while this is a well-made version of the style, I'm getting a lot more coffee, than the brash hops alluded to by the brewery. Easy to drink, sure, but kind of boring by the same sword, which has this long-term observer not the least bit surprised.
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