Hanlon's Port Stout
Cask & bottle conditioned; Regular.
In the winter of 1996 we were inspired by an Irish tradition for a morning after ’corpse-reviver’ - a splash of Port in your stout! The inspired blending of Rich Ruby Port with O’Hanlon’s award-winning stout has created a unique and original masterpiece of craft brewing.
Previously O'Hanlons Port Stout.
In the winter of 1996 we were inspired by an Irish tradition for a morning after ’corpse-reviver’ - a splash of Port in your stout! The inspired blending of Rich Ruby Port with O’Hanlon’s award-winning stout has created a unique and original masterpiece of craft brewing.
Previously O'Hanlons Port Stout.
3.3
497 reviews
Newton St Cyres, England
Community reviews
At the Moon under the Water in Watford. Pours a super dark brown with a loose tan head. The rich roasted malt, dark fruit, brown sugar. The taste is pretty much as it smells with a dry roasty end. Light/medium in body with fine carbonation.
Fra fat på Brass Monkey, Plymouth 22 Sep 16. Ultramørk rubinrød. Filmskum. Aroma av brent karamell. Smaken sherry & mørke plommer. Karamellpreget sitter i.
Cask @ Spoons, Edinburgh. Spring Beer Festival (Ratings Backlog). Pours black with a tan head. Nose is rich, chocolate, malty, berries. Taste is chocolate, slight coffee and then you do get a little warming port. I’ve had this years before i knew about RB and i don’t think its as good as it used to be that said its till a nice beer.
Gravity at Newtfest 2016. Deep chestnut with a frothy cream head. Malty chocolate aroma. The taste is quite rich with chocolate, coffee and a little vinous note. A bitter tang in the finish. Pretty good.
Draft at Reading Beer Festival. Darn good. Woody and slightly smoky, I enjoyed it.
Let humlet, brændt lakridssmag. Bliver lidt rund af portvinen der er tilsat.
Smokey aroma. Dark black/ brown appearance. Dark chocolate taste with caramel hints. Nice bite on palate. Good lacing. Overall very acceptable and will try again
Cask at The Metropolitan Bar. Poured black with a tan head that laces the glass nicely. Aroma is smoke roasted malts coffee beans dark fruit. Taste is roasted malts caramel coffee beans chocolate. Most pleasant.
Cask at the crosse keys, city. Dark black / brown coloured pour with a lasting dirty greyish tam head. Aroma is dark choc, mineral flint, dry powdered choc and dirt. Flavour is composed of semi sweet chocolate malts, medium bitter roast and mineral, burnt toast. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, slightly thin, lowish cask condition. Harsh bitter roast lingering with some dark fruits.
Cask at The Bishops’ Mill (JDW), Durham, £1.99/pint.
Black with a thick, cream-coloured head. There are dark malts, chocolate and a little smoke in the aroma. The body is disappointingly thin and watery but the flavours are appealing - a pleasant blend of cocoa, cream, caramel and berries, although I couldn’t detect much of the promised port. Okay.
Black beer, brown head. A bit of coffee in the smell, which is pretty dry. Flavour’s dry too... a splash of coffee, earthy malt, bitter chocolate and a healthy hit of the port too. Very drinkable.
500ml bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of chocolate, light port (could be the power of suggestion). Taste is fruity, some roast coffee. Bitter finish.
Cask at Stockbridge Tap. Pours deep dark almost black. Tan head. Dark fruity malty chocolate aroma. Slight oily texture. Chocolate and dark fruits. Bitter
Bottle from brewery. Black colour with a tan head. Fruity and port aroma and taste with roasted malt. Slightly sweet finish.
[cask, at the Great British Beer Festival 2015] - Hanlons Brewery Port Stout, 4.8%, Bronze winner "speciality beers" at this event. Dark brown, with a small, beige head. Licorice, chocolate and wee roasted malts on the nose. Medium body, hardly watery at all. Mild carbonation. Dark chocolate, some licorice, some vanilla at the start, mild floral notes. More explicit roasted malts towards the middle, dark chocolate mainly. Finish is closer to cold espresso, but the vanilla note keeps the going soft. Aftertaste slightly sour espresso, again with a light vanilla note. Really not bad medium-strength stout.
On draught at Chippenham Beer Festival. Pours dark, clear. Little aroma. Medium sweet, bitter ashy fnish. Light body.
Cask at The Green Dragon, Leek (JDW) Deep ruby brown colour with a creamy tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, treacle and dark fruits. Tastes of dark fruit and roasted coffee plus the warming flavour of port. Texture is smooth but a little watery. A dry, roasted finish. Overall a decent stout.
Cask. Dark chestnut brown with a small tan head. Watery at first with some brown sugar notes dominating. Molasses and dark dried fruit. Soft carbonation, little bitterness, soft malty finish. I feel it is a bit too thin to really carry the flavours.
Cask@HenglersCIrcus GLasgow
Pours a dark brown with a thin tan head
aroma is sweet malt with soft fruit plums pears
Taste is sweet with fruit and a short sweet berry finish
Ok
Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is black with slightly brownish white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, coffee and malts. Quite good easy real ale stout but thin.
(cask) clear deep ruby-brown colour with a frothy light-beige head. aroma of milk chocolate, light roasted malts and cornflakes, with a hint of blackcurrant and light caramel. flavour is mostly roasted malts and treebark, rather nondescript, with a light berry tartness and a hint of vanilla. thin body with soft carbonation.
Pours an opaque dark brown with an off white head. Nice chocolate aroma. Upfront is alcohol with a coffee finish.
From the file last updated in 2010. As Ruby Stout. Pours dark brown. Aroma of dark malt and chocolate. Flavor of dark malt and chocolate. Liked it.
Black with thick tan lasting head good aroma with some coffee and chocolate hints Some initial sweetness in the taste which may come from the port then a nice roasty coffee bitterness develops. Some lingering warmth at the finish - oddly for a modest abv. Maybe it is the port found it a bit watery but decent.
Cask at the Stockbridge Tap. Pours black, nose is sweet berry, dry roast, chocolate, taste is sweet, dry roast, coffee, wine.
Nice malty aroma with chocolate and coffee tones. Black colour with too much head. Malty flavour with nutty impression and slightly coffee and chocolate finish. Medium to heavy creamy body with medium carbonation.
Deep dark brown with a red tint and a lasting creamy frothy beige head. Smells of burnt malt, chocolate, coffee, dried fruit, caramel and sweet malt. Medium frothy oily body with no carbonation. Mellow rounded roast, with burn malt with dark chocolate, dried fruit and a nice bitter coffee roast finish. The finish has a slight metallic finish. A nice smooth stout with a roast finish and a dry nice decent character.
Cask Pint at Wibbas Down (JDW), Wimbledon, London in Mar 2013 - Dark Brown in colour with Reddish tinge. Very Malty; roasty malts, coffee, liquorice. Hoppy bitterness in the aftertaste. Very drinkable.
Keg at The Rake. Dark brown to black with a thick two inch head. Aroma is toffee, burnt toast, caramel, coffee, I could sniff this for hours. The taste is nice, much of the same from the nose of the beer, thick, rich with different flavours coming and going as the beer warmed. Quite good
Rating from 2008: Der Schaum ist schön rötlich-braun, der Geruch voll und süß mit Rotweinanklängen.
Der Antrunk ist cremig-süßlich-vollmundig. Der Hauptteil wird malzig-interessant: Röstmalz und eine
interessante, schwer zu beschreibende Note - aber irgendwie kein Portwein. Leicht ins süßlich-dunkel gehende.
Schwer. Der Nachgeschmack ist langanhaltend - hefig-mild und röstmalzig-intensiv.
Gut abgewogenes
Herbe-Süße-Verhältnis. Interessantes, aber auch sehr leckeres Bier! --> 13+10+13+13 = 12,40