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McGuires Porter

McGuires Porter

Rated 3.510 by BeerPals
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Brewed by McGuires Irish Pub, Pensacola

Pensacola, FL, United States

Style:  Porter

5.3% Alcohol by Volume

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Ruby Chestnut in color and not as heavy as our Stout, McGuire's Porter will help what ales ya after a hard days work. Chocolate Malt balanced with Willamette Hops gives this full-bodied ale its smooth, distinct flavor.

ID: 16478 Last updated 18 years ago Added to database 18 years ago

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Overall Rank3085
Overall Percentile94.2
Style Rank117 of 1446
Style Percentile91.9
Lowest Score3.3
Highest Score4.8
Average Score3.729
Weighted Score3.510
Standard Deviation0.509

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  • LENUSIK 2067 reviews
    rated 3.3 12 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    It takes a lot of guts to call this beer a porter. It fails in the colour category being a reddish-brown pour rather than dark brown/black. The aroma is weak roast, some chocolate, and weak fruits. Flavour is a bit sweet for a porter as well. Very thin.

  • HEDDYMUGGZ 135 reviews
    rated 3.8 13 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    This was a nice solid porter. I haven't had a porter in some time, so I have forgotten what I am looking for in terms of characteristics, but did enjoy the flavor. I preferred the raspberry beer, but this was my second favorite on the sampler. The food quality exceeds the beer quality, but hey, it wasnt bad!

  • TRAPEZEMONK 71 reviews
    rated 3.4 13 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    This beer had a really unique appearance. It was almost a dark garnet color. The flavor was a bitter chocolate almost like a 90% dark chocolate. It was overall a good beer if you were not going to eat lighter than the stout but heavy enough as a meal.

  • FARGINGBASTIGE6 1476 reviews
    rated 4.8 15 years ago

    Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

    Superb specimen of this type of beer. Chocolately, malty and incredibly drinkable. This is what porter should be. Nice head. Beauty in a glass. Another must-have when in the Destin area.

  • STALEYIV 1405 reviews
    rated 3.5 16 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Aroma is burnt, oaky, and has some chocolate malt complexity as well as some slight bitterness. Appearance is a chestnut in color with a full head on top that is light-tan in color and diminishes. Mouthfeel is medium-bodied and smooth with nice malt balance and complexity. Flavor is clean and burnt with an oaky aftertaste and a finish that is coffee and chocolate. Overall, nice porter but not as good as Anchor porter; good brew though.

  • EAGLEFAN538 2299 reviews
    rated 3.8 18 years ago

    Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Poured the usual brownish color with a nice head and nearly continuous lacing. The aroma and flavor were fairly one-dimensional: coffee. Certainly was enjoyable, but lacking any complexity. Roasted flavors came out to play at mid-glass, but not to any level of stunning-ness. A good but on par beer with others. Mouthfeel was moderate. A nice beer.

  • EYECHARTBREW 1451 reviews
    rated 3.5 18 years ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    ~ Initial Review, 05-03-2003:
    Another style I would not normally associate with an Irish-style brewpub, since Porter, in it's truest sense, started out as an English hybrid drink of three different other ales (the Irish merely improved upon the style, and made a "stouter Porter", a.k.a. Stout). Regardless of it's historical significance, this particular beer really didn't do a whole lot for me, to be honest.

    Beer menu write-up mentions chocolate malt and Willamette hops, with a ABV of 5.3% (near the top of the brewpub's alcohol range). But when I compared the Irish Red, Porter, and Irish Cream Stout in a taster set, I kept on getting the nagging impression that the Porter was little more than a blending of the Red and Stout. This isn't necessarily a negative thing, mind you - wine and whiskey are blended all the time, and beer is often no exception. But this still didn't make the Porter much of a beer, IMO.

    Not a whole lot going on with this one. I like my Porters to be a bit grainy, and very sturdy. This wasn't a whole lot more than a bigger Irish Red, or a weaker Stout - again, alluding to a possible blend of the two.

    Not horrible, but surely not an ale that is "full-bodied" with a "smooth, distinctive flavor" that it is claimed to be in the beer menu write-up.

    ~ Re-Review, 07-03-2004:
    Since nothing else on-tap was really calling my name (when I stopped by for lunch this past week), I decided to give this another try.

    Either the recipe has been tweaked quite a bit, or my initial review was all-out-to-lunch (perhaps both?)..., since this was actually pretty tasty, IMO. Definately more girth in the mouthfeel, as well as a more distinctive malt-bill -- almost roasty and stout-like. This went down quite well with my big-ass burger, and I'm glad I tried this out again.

    Scores an composite average of the two samplings.
    //TB

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