Salopian Entire Butt

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Sampled on 7/8/2009. This porter pours a dark brown color from a 50cl bottle. Medium sized white foamy head, with decent lacing and not much retention. The aroma is chocolate, roasted malts and coffee. A medium bodied porter. The malts are chocolate and coffee. The hops are herbal and earthy. Nice balance. Good carbonation. A little thin in the mouthfeel but it does not lower this beers drinkablility any. Mouthfeel is a little thin. The finish is clean and smooth. The aftertaste is slightly sweet.

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

sampled on 7/8/09. 500ml bottle with mitch. pours a dark black/brown color with just a bit of light coming thru, medium head. aroma is chocolate, roasty malts. taste is chocolaty with coffee coming out as it warms. mouthfeel is thin and a bit watery.

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

The typical 500ml bottle that British and German brews come in. This pours a black colour with a brown head. Roasted and nutty malts dominate the nose along with chocolate and dark fruits. A creamy palate gives way to flavours of coffee, molasses, and licorice with a nice bitter finish making for an excellent beer.

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

500 ml bottle. Poured a deep brown with ruby tones colored ale with a good one finger tan creamy foamy head, with tons of micro bubbles, that had a superb retention.Soft carbonation. Good lacing. The flavour is strong roasted malts, burned coffee beans, fruity, nuts and chocolate. The aroma is rich, roasted malts,dark bitter chocolate, a coffee cup, fruity, dark berries, all that mixed with a floral hoppy bitterness, hints of licorice. The mouthfeel is slight crispy, like a creamy black coffee and very smooth. This light to medium bodied ale has a long bitter coffee finish. A complex Porter with a river of smells. I need an other taste to surelly discover other flavours. A very interesting and tasting Porter.

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

Poured from a bottle to a jet black color with a tan head. The aroma at first reminded me of sun tan lotion...seemed to have a coconut. I re-focused and came up with vanilla and malts. Everything was OK until this point where I tasted this brew. The taste was extremely watery with the slightest bit roasted malts and some fruit at the end but it ends there. Won't be searching this one out in the future.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

The aroma of this was kind of strong...a blend of caramel, coffee and chocolate comes to mind. I really liked the pitch black coloring and thick head when this brew was poured. As for the taste. The flavors in the aroma came through rather weakly in the taste,

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Poured a medium brown with strong smokey aroma and taste. The mouth feel was thin, and not as rich as I would have liked. There was a decent amount of head with light lacing. I found the flavor overpowering to be paired with food.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottle at the SL Beer 101 tasting on porters. Poured a lighter shade of brown, medium head and lacing levels. The aroma was faint chocolate with a roasted smokiness. The flavor was all of that along with some caramel, fruity esters, bubblegum, and coffee notes. Unfortunately, this thing was weak in flavor, somewhat of a watery mouthfeel. Thanks, Robert!

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

Labelled best before Feb06, but seemingly none the worse for wear. Dark mahogany with ruby tints in the light, a a foamy tan head and adequate lacing. Aroma hints of coffee and roasted malts. Mouthfeel slightly thinnish, but tingly and zippy on the tongue... well-carbonated. Flavor repeats the coffee note of the aroma, with some chocolate as well. A nice porter! I'll repeat this one I think.

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

Dark brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma of sweet sugar, dark chocolate and roast. Flavour is pleasantly raosted, and also has coffee, chocolate and some licorace in it. Very well done porter!