Midnight Sun

Williams Bros. Brewery

Midnight Sun won't you come and wash away the rain

5.6% ABV

Reviewed by MT

Colour: Dark obsidian, glugging gleefully into the glass and creating a smooth light sandy brown head.

Nose: Apart from the usual soft dark tones I’ve come to expect from a good porter, there’s a gentle smokiness from the roast barley. More notably [...click the heading to read more]

June 7th, 2010 Tags: , | Section: Beer Reviews | Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This Post

myBrewerytap.com selection No2

Roundtable tasting

Beer as far as the eye can see! Well, as long as my garden wall…

When you’ve got a good selection of beers that need drinking (and they’re not 10% ABV beasts!), you need a roundtable.

This is part two from a selection of beers sent by myBrewerytap.com
They are from the previous quarter’s box for the [...click the heading to read more]

April 15th, 2010 Tags: , | Section: Beer Reviews, Roundtable | Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This Post

'Stouter' Port Stout

Marble Beers

If you said I could only drink Marble beers for the rest of my life I'd be happy!

Reviewed by RD

5.1% ABV

Colour: A fine looking beer, pretty much opaque. A very dark brown body with a reddish tint. A very handsome creamy cappuccino head sat on top until the end.

Nose: The first thing that hit [...click the heading to read more]

February 10th, 2010 Tags: , , | Section: Beer Reviews | 5 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post

Dunham Porter

Dunham Massey

A beer swap beer all the way from Altrincham!

5.2% ABV

Reviewed by MT

Colour: As dark as they come! Black, kind of like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey…. but with less wailing. Average amount of head for a bottled ale which is an off-white colour.

Nose: A smoke rich November 5th style aroma and occasionally [...click the heading to read more]

January 5th, 2010 Tags: , , | Section: Beer Reviews | Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This Post

Dogbolter

Gadds’ at Ramsgate Brewery

Dogbolter…a right belter! Sorry I'm shit at captions.

5.6% ABV

Reviewed by RD

Colour: The body of this porter was very dark reddish brown with a creamy beige head.

Nose: The first thing that hit me was a surprising hint of coffee, this was soon taken over by more dominant tones of fortified wine, sticky fruits [...click the heading to read more]

January 2nd, 2010 Tags: , | Section: Beer Reviews | One comment | Print This Post | Email This Post

Cutthroat Porter

Odell’s

A tribute to the Colorado state fish?!?!

4.8% ABV

Reviewed by RD

Colour: I picked this up from Beers of Europe a while back. From the bottle it poured the darkest brown with a dense, fizzy tan coloured head. The head didn’t hang about for long.

Nose: Roasted malt, chocolate and coffee impose themselves on the nostrils. There [...click the heading to read more]

November 30th, 2009 Tags: , | Section: Beer Reviews | Leave a comment | Print This Post | Email This Post