#72 Mornington Peninsula Brewery Porter

25 April 2014 by Liam

I’m a bit excited about this. I’ve declared favouritism for Mornington Peninsula Brewery in the past and as I’ve discovered over the last eight months or so, their range goes from good to perfectly satisfying. I even enjoy their Imperial Stout. I picked this bottle up from the Archive’s Next Door Cellars, which means it’s been kept refrigerated and in the dark since it arrived and was kept in the same condition at my place for a week or two prior to undertaking this […]

Categories: ★★★, Porter/Stout, VIC • Tags: beer, beer review, craft beer, mornington peninsula, porter

#66 Bierwerk Afrikan Ales African Stout

28 February 2014 by Liam

We don’t shy away from beers originating in the places you’d least expect. There was the Lebanese Pale Ale, a lager from Fiji and a barleywine from Norway, which I was regrettably harsh towards in retrospect (untrained palate, what are you going to do?). So when I saw a label with ‘Product of Namibia’ at the Wine Emporium, how could I say no? Unfortunately, we don’t get much traffic from Africa. I do know that Guinness is very popular in Nigeria, home to […]

Categories: Africa, ★★★, Porter/Stout • Tags: african stout, beer, beer review, bierwerk, craft beer, imperial stout, namibia, stout

#61 Feral Brewing Boris Russian Imperial Stout

1 December 2013 by Liam

This post is part of Crazy Cellar Clearout Week, where we review some of the beers in our cellar so we can start 2014 fresh. You can see all the beers we’ve reviewed in 2013 here. Boris was released to a fair degree of fanfare earlier this year. I managed to snag a couple of bottles at Plonk in Caberra. I thought it’d be a lark, even though it was obviously going to be a big ask to drink it, let along enjoy […]

Categories: ★★, Porter/Stout, WA • Tags: beer, boris, craft beer, feral brewing, russian imperial stout, wa

#58 Moon Dog Jumping the Shark 2013

28 November 2013 by AM Benstead

This post is part of Crazy Cellar Clearout Week, where we review some of the beers in our cellar so we can start 2014 fresh. You can see all the beers we’ve reviewed in 2013 here. To say I’m a bit excited about this one would be an understatement. It’d be the first single bottle of beer I’ve purchased over the $20 mark so, in any event, my expectations are high. Now, maybe I didn’t look hard enough (which is highly probable), but […]

Categories: ★★★★, Porter/Stout, VIC • Tags: craft beer, imperial stout, moon dog, review

#43 Holgate Brewhouse Temptress Chocolate Porter

13 September 2013 by Liam

A rare cold night in Brisbane and no suitably dark beers to be had in my house for love nor money. I decided to man up and walk a hundred metres down the road in search of Temptress. I spotted it in the fridge not long ago – a surprisingly astute purchase by one of my housemates – and, with any luck, there would be some in stock in the nearest bottleshop. Hallelujah! There’s a couple of bottles left and […]

Categories: ★★★★, Porter/Stout, VIC • Tags: beer, beer review, chocolate porter, craft beer, holgate, porter, temptress

#9 Monteith’s Black Beer

1 February 2013 by Liam

This review begins with me wandering the aisles of my local First Choice gunning for a porter or any sort of dark beer. For some reason, Guinness is $80 for a case and I can’t find the James Squire Jack of Spades in a case. I spy Monteith’s (First Choice really need to move it away from the eye level shelf) and they produce a darker beer in a handsome black bottle. Dare I risk it? The last belt of […]

Categories: ★★, NZ & Oceania, Porter/Stout • Tags: beer, beer review, black beer, craft beer, monteith, porter