Now exported to America
“London Porter is a meal-on-its-own beer of Dickensian diversion and intricacy, full of smoke and coal and spice.”
Andrew
Jefford
– Financial Times
A big beer, Porter was a fuel of the Industrial Revolution. It was also the world’s first truly industrial product, that laid the foundations of the modern era of commerce, management and science. This was the beer that put the Great into Great Britain. This bottle conditioned beer will mature with age, as it contains a blend of fast and slow acting yeasts.
Along with Meantime India Pale Ale, Porter is pioneering Meantime’s export drive. In July 2005 no fewer than 30,000 bottles of beer crossed the Atlantic to the US. If George III had sent beer to Boston instead of tea, who knows, history may have been very different.
“They
say this style of beer was called Porter because it refreshed
and energised the muscular men who worked through the night
in markets like Billingsgate, Smithfield and Covent Garden
to ensure that we had fresh food next morning. Porter is a
London style of beer that has been having a revival among connoisseurs.
To be the real thing, it should be made by a London brewery.
This tall, dark, handsome bottle comes to you from London’s
youngest brewery: Meantime, in Greenwich. It’s a muscular
brew, but deceptively lean and smooth. It has a nutty maltiness
in the middle and a lingering, bittersweet, black chocolate
finish. If you have been up all night, give yourself a lift:
have Porter with breakfast. |
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