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Giving a Porter a Go!

I decided to swing by the local bottle-o this evening after work to find something different so that I could put together my review for this week. I found a beer with a goat on the cover which I thought might give me an excuse to tell this bizarre story but decided on a beer with a Pheasant on the label instead.

I don't have any strange Pheasant stories so we'll just settle for talking about beer today.

Twelve Days by Hook Norton Brewery

I quite like this random purchasing of beers without knowing anything about them. It's kind of like luck-of-the-draw. Some weeks you get a very average beer, sometimes you get something amazing, and other weeks you just get a beer that's pleasant and quite drinkable.

In this case, we have quite a drinkable beer. This isn't anything outstanding but it's definitely a good beer.

Hook Norton is quite an old brewery, they've been around since 1849. So they're not a small, local craft brewer which is what I tend to focus on.

Twelve Days is a Porter from their seasonal range. It's described as being:

A strong dark brown beer, offering a dominantly malty palate with nutty overtones, giving way to a lyrical sweetness that speaks for its strength.
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And impressively, this beer has won quite a few awards, even as recently as in 2016.

Ratebeer.com also has rated this beer quite highly and describe the beer as being a beer for Christmas. This is suggested by the name but, personally, I wouldn't call this a Christmas ale at all.

So what did I think of this beer?

I really enjoyed this beer. It's not as good as the American Pale that I had last week, but this is definitely a good quality beer.

The beer pours with a lovely deep amber, along with a decent head. The head doesn't linger all that long and is a dirty white colour. There are strong aromas of malts with some nuttiness. The beer is only mildly carbonated which is well suited to this style.

On the palate, you'll have strong notes of malts, a mild sweetness, mild bitterness and some nutty flavours. As I mentioned in the video, this isn't a complex beer. But it isn't so simple that you'd just pass it off as your standard macro beer. It is actually a good beer that comes from what I can only assume is a macro brewer.

Overall, I really enjoyed this beer. What I found surprising was that I got through one, and simply wanted more. Normally, after a beer of this heaviness, I'd be satisfied with one. But after finishing this beer, I was seriously considering heading out for a second or third bottle.

The Beer Data

Beer	Type	Origin	ABV	Rating
Hook Norton Twelve Days	Porter	UK	5.5%	4.0

_{All ratings are out of 5}

Rating and Reviews at Ratebeer.com

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