The India Double Porter is a stronger and more intense version of our Export India Porter.
We’ve previously called this beer, ‘Our EIP turned up to 11’ or, the ‘Double IPA of Porters’ and rightly so. It combines a hugely rich and malt forward mash bill, with a hopping regime usually reserved for big IPA’s.
Beer Details
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Size: 330ml
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Style: India Double Porter
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Malt: Pale Maris Otter, Crystal Medium, Dark Crystal, Brown, Chocolate, Black
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Hops: Nelson Sauvin, Vic Secret
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Yeast: American Ale Yeast
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ABV: 7.4%
One amazing quality of this beer is how good it looks before you’ve even smelt or drank it.
It pours a dark black, but instead of a clean white head the thick caramel coloured foam sits proudly atop hinting at the intensity and depth the beer has to offer.
With only a brief sniff you’re enveloped by a medley of wondrous aromas like wood, jasmine, peach and blueberry, coffee, milk chocolate and distant, ripe mango.
Drinking the beer is the obvious next step… And, what a sip that is!!!
The decadent malt flavours hit first with bitter notes such as leather, tar, treacle, hint of smoke or ash, old rolling tobacco, raisins, some subtle spices.
Next you notice the other flavours, that were actually there all along, properly introducing themselves.
The antipodean hop combo of Nelson Sauvin and Vic Secret does exactly what we want from the hops in our India Double Porter.
Those fruity notes that the aroma hinted at are most certainly there bringing some citrus and tropical flavours like peaches (maybe grilled peaches), a bit of orange, grapefruit and that distant mango.
Finally, a warmth envelops you, but not as boozy as you’d expect from the 7.4% ABV.