This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 87: March 28, 2015
Diary entry:
Let the weekend begin, officially.
Not much in the morning. A bit of a sleep-in, and some general relaxation.
Then ran into Tilburg to go see American Sniper at the theater. The movie was pretty good. I was definitely moved, especially the ending scenes and the images of the Patriot Guards, which brought back memories of my brother-in-law’s funeral back in 2006.
Stopped for a beer at a well-known beer bar in Tilburg I haven’t visited before, which is where tonight’s beer of the night came from. Plenty of beers I saw on their menu I haven’t tried before, so will definitely be back!
The Beer:
Name: Poorter
Style: Fusion Dubbel – Porter
Producer: Witte Klavervier
Alcohol content: 7.0%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Cafe Hoegarden, Tilburg, Netherlands
The Poorter by Witte Klavervier has an aroma and taste of barrel aging, but is not the barrel aged offering of the Poorter by the brewery. This beer offers quite a bit of bitterness on the palate, much more than expected. The bitterness overpowers the dark flavors of the porter fusion.
Commercial Description:
Type: Fusion Dubbel – Porter
EBC 45 EBU 30
Density of wort 16 degrees Plato Category S
Alc. 7% Vol.
Ingredients: water, malts, hops en yeast.
2 dark malts, a Cara malt 300 en a Roast malt 900.
2 hops; Spalt and Styrian Goldings hops.
Poorter is an old Dutch beer name that goes back as far as early 14th century. Our Poorter is a fusion beer somewhere between a Belgian Dubbel and a Porter.
Next to nothing is known about the old Poorters and it was probably not a true style in the modern sense.
