National Winter Ales Festival 2010
ABV: 6.5%
Origin: Elland, West Yorkshire, England
Website: www.eandsbrewery.co.uk
2010’s overall Champion Beer of Britain is a previous runner-up, the highly deserving Elland 1872 porter, based on a recipe from the eponymous year. The brewery, in the small Calderdale town of Elland, originates from a merger of the Barge & Barrel brewpub and the West Yorkshire brewery.
It’s a dark ruby beer with an off-white head and a relatively restrained aroma with faint liquorice notes. A bitter toasted malt palate is packed with flavour: meaty, salty and liquorice hints, roast chicory coffee, burnt toast, banana and spreading hops. A soft swallow leads to a long bitterish finish with some fruit and liquorice. Its dryness makes for quite a challenging beer but it’s very well made and top quality.
Read more about this beer at ratebeer.com: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/elland-1872-porter/23663/
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