The Kernel Brewery -- tasting notes

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		TASTING NOTES (We will try to update this list. If you are looking for tasting notes for one of our beers that is not mentioned here, please get in touch) Export Stout (1890 London) 7.8% abv Based on a recipe from a London Brewery in 1890. Simple recipe massive taste. Dark, dark black. Oily texture. Loads of rich dried fruit and alcohol warmth rum and raisin. Then a herbal hop bitterness on top of huge lingering espresso. Hints of leather, tar, smoke, vanilla and chocolate. Roasty. Gold Medal at the SIBA South East Brewing Awards: Best Bottled Beer Gold Medal at the SIBA South East Brewing Awards: Category: Bottled Porter/Old Ale/Mild/Stout India Pale Ale - (C.S.C.) [Centennial, Simcoe, Chinook] 7.1% abv American hops meet English malt. Burnished golden colour. Aromas of tropical fruits, hints of grass. The sweetness of the malt gives them the impression of fruit salad on the palate, juicy, then followed up with a big bitterness, with some pepper and spice. Pale Ale - (Chinook) 5.1% abv Crisp, clean, fresh. A very pale ale. Aroma of lemon and wood, tastes of citrus, and then citrus pith. Clear sharp bitterness. Pale Ale - (Centennial) 5.2% abv Crisp, clean, fresh. Pale golden colour. Aroma of grapefruit and elderflowers, tastes of citrus, grapefruit. Rounded juicy texture. Firm bitterness. Baltic Porter 7.3% abv A porter on the drier and fruitier side of the spectrum. Dark brown with a reddish hue. Aromas of chocolate, raisin, hint of coffee and a touch of wood and woodland herbs. Dark perfumey fruits at the fore developing into some sour berry tones and succeeded by a herbal spike, into a coffee finish. A London Porter 5.4% abv A porter on the drier and roastier side of the spectrum. Pretty much black at the centre with a minor dark brown edging. Interchangeable aromas of chocolate, raisin, coffee and a touch of roasted, smokey malt, leather, wood. Dark perfumey fruits at the fore developing into some sour berry tones and succeeded by dark chocolate & coffee dominating the finish.