LONDON PORTER 6.5% ABV
The Beer That Changed The World
"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. (But not for breakfast.)"
- Michael Jackson
"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
Seven different malts and Fuggles hops
No fewer than seven malts go into our Porter, each especially chosen to bring you the flavours so loved by Londoners that demand for Porter made London the brewing capital of the world. Porter offers light roast malt on the nose and on the tongue a sweetish caramel gives way to a mouthful of smoky, dry maltiness, and an astringency on the finish that comes entirely from the brown, black and chocolate malts, rather than hops; and there are an awful lot of Fuggle hops in our Porter.
A big beer, Porter was a fuel of the Industrial Revolution. It was also the world's first truly industrial product, and one that laid the foundations for 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 2009 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.
Food Pairings
Meantime London Porter goes well with most meats, game, fowl, camembert and cheeses that like to hang out. This is one beer that is best not overchilled, and like the original Porters, will mature with age.
If you want to learn more about Porter visit www.london-porter.com
Awards
International Beer Challenge 2008 - World's 50 Best Beers
International Beer Challenge 2007 - World's 50 Best Beers
Availability
Cases of 6 x 750ml corked and wired champagne bottles.
