Posts Tagged: Porter Season
Quick Note: Porter, Wensleydale Brewery, Leyburn, England
Posted by on Sunday, March 18, 2007 in - leave a comment
Tonight, there's a bit of a nip in the air. The wind seems to turned to the north. A good enough excuse to open a dark winter type ale. • As if one needed an excuse. So I reached for a bottle of Wensleydale Porter, at 6.6% a punchy little number. This dark-copper coloured ale exudes a sweet …
Nova Scotia: London Porter, Propeller Brewing
Posted by on Saturday, March 10, 2007 in - 6 comments
Halifax's Propeller Brewing Company has a new (nope, just newly noticed by me) London Style Porter. A very nice, smooth, tasty dark addition to the local brew scene. The Propeller website states: • “A dark full-flavoured beer but smoother and less bitter than stout. Made with softened water …
Seven More Porters
Posted by on Thursday, August 17, 2006 in - 12 comments
I really quite like a porter and, what with the best part of the summer's heat now in the past, you can now contemplate taking on the layers of flavour these beers should provide. I have posted a bunch of posts about porters, everything from that macro-spawn Labatt Porter that is still to be found …
Quick Note: St. Peter's Old Style Porter
Posted by on Sunday, September 18, 2005 in - 5 comments
This beer from St. Peter's is a ruby brown ale under an oddly ivory head. I've never seen an ivory head: tan plus hints of green-grey. This is old style, like Burton Bridge porter: barley candy plus molasses with lime and green hops. The yeast is sour cream or soured milk or something in between …
Quick Note: Butte Creek Organic Porter, Chico, CA
Posted by on Friday, August 5, 2005 in - leave a comment
I found this beer at Wild Oats in Portland, Maine last week. $8.99 US for a six and it comes with the "Pry Off" cap - click the photo for the details. Why twist when you can pry? • First, this is not an old school porter with the required sourness up front in the vein of, say, Grants or that …
Three More Porters
Posted by on Sunday, February 20, 2005 in - 2 comments
OK. Once again we have the timeless question of "what the heck is a porter anyway?" Each of the words in that question lead you to a different porter I have had in the last 12 months. Unlike a best bitter, a hefeweissen or a barleywine, you never know quite what the brewer is going to qualify as a …
Vermont: Ravell Porter, Magic Hat, South Burlington
Posted by on Saturday, January 1, 2005 in - 1 comment
I had such high hopes for this post, comparing four of the brews in the South Burlington Vermont's Magic Hat Winter mixed 12 pack. Then the holidays hit, then the guests arrived, then the defence of the bottles began. Right now I have maybe 30 singles of beer stuck away for later comment at a …
Quick Note: Sinebrychoff Porter, Finland
Posted by on Saturday, December 18, 2004 in - 3 comments
Chocolate, licorice and heat. 7.2% Baltic porter, an artifact of a style. Heavy malty dark with a strong woodsy hop edge over the roast. $2.99 USD at the Party Source, Syracuse.
Quick Note: Labatt Porter
Posted by on Monday, November 29, 2004 in - 16 comments
While on the road, I chanced by a depanneur near the pulp mills in downtown Hull and found an artifact, Labatt Porter. This beer is a vestige of an earlier style of Canadian beer which died away as lagers came on to the scene. Old lumberjack taverns up the Outaouais may still have old sign for …
New York: Variety 12- Pack, Cooperstown Brewing, Milford
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2004 in - 10 comments
Another big buy from my trip a few weeks ago to the Party Source in Syracuse, NY. The case of this happy vista upon cracking the cardboard. Cooperstown Brewing is not actually in Cooperstown but is a proud cornerstone of the Milford, New York business community. • Like the Smuttynose case review …
