Ridgeway Santas Butt Winter Porter

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours out dark brown with a slight red tone. The aroma is mild with a slight wood smell. The mouthfeel is only average. The taste has very slight hints of cinnamon, nutmeg & chocolate. A pleasant enough porter.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

I tend to like British porters, but this one is an exception. A medium brown pour with a beige coloured head. The aroma is nutty malt, some sour hints, and a weak hop note. Flavour is very weak, almost more of a brown ale than a porter.

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

Bottle. Pours out in a dark brown colour with ruby edges with a small creamy tan-coloured head. Fruity aroma of of figs, raisins, cocoa and roasted malts. Medium-bodied with notes of roasted malts, milky chocolate and dates. medium-bitter finish of of roasted malts, milky chocolate and figs. A fruity edgeless porter.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Drank at the Coops, from old notes .. . Pretty watery .. light roast, wow! wheres the beef!?! .. . smells of an old flooded fireplace .. . i just can't get over how hollow and weak this beer is! .. mexican hat dance.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

500ml bottle -

Another awful beer from the Ridgway’s Christmas style beer series. Well, perhaps now awful, but it’s really below average and a poor showing for the style. It has some light sweetness and this sour/pucker like character that’s unwelcomed. Light roast notes and nutty. Unfortunately, these beers are sold in packs for well over $20 and it’s such a pedestrian beer along with the others sold.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

It pours a blackish dark-brown with hints of red with a thick tan head and copious lacing. An aroma of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, light hops, citrus, and spices. The mouthfeel is smooth and rich. Flavors of chocolatey malts, coffee, hops, orange/citrus, bitters, and light spices. Very good!

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

The whimisical labeling was the draw on this line of Christmas themed ales. A reddish brown colored ale. A weak off white head with no hang time atall. The aroma is bitter coffee mocha. The body improves as it warms. Moderate bodied and syrupy. The taste is roasted malt and coffee. Drinkable, just not something I’d expect Santa to deliver if I was good throughout the year.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This Christmas cheer pours pitch black with a medium tan head and some lacing - looks like a porter should - little carbonation. Aromas of slight coffee, toasted and sweet malts, a little hops. Slightly thin mouthfeel. Taste is as the aromas - with toasted malts and a little caramel up front and some hops in the end. A very drinkable porter in a very fun bottle and label.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

there's a very pleasant sweet sugar/lactose aroma and mouthfeel here, maybe a little caramel malt, but the body and flavor don't have a lot else left to offer. quite boring and doesn't taste like a porter. thin, almost non-existant head, thin body, no finish. an ok beer, but not a good porter.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 7

Good example of fine marketing. Expensive 17 oz bottle with quite a story on it. Rude name, and on the label, Santa looks mildly annoyed that you are staring at his goozie. But evidently this refers to the butt sized beer container. A porter which looks like a porter should. Some roasty aromas with banana olfactory hints. Thin head. Good inoffensive old fire roasty flavors which come across with a mild unrefined milky sourness. Taste is decent and enjoyable, lacking any foolish bitterness. A well made porter that will be enjoyable to lager lovers but so is Yuengs black and tan, and that is much cheaper. Finsih is just barely reminiscent of an old campfire. S5L4F2T5O11