BEER: Holgate Temptress Chocolate Porter

October 8, 2011

Holgate Temptress Chocolate Porter
Quite the temptress

BEER: Holgate Temptress Chocolate Porter
6% alc.

I’ve spent the day in the car today, driving to Canberra (and back) for the public tasting of the Canberra International Riesling Challenge. Now, after a long day of driving and tasting, the only way to properly refuel is that magical food/drink combination: Pizza and beer.

Tonight’s pizza of choice was a Mexicana (cheese, pepperoni, capsicum, onion, garlic, chilli) with anchovies (my favoured additional topping. Love that salty/fishy goodness), matched to a icy cold Little Creatures Pale Ale. Sadly the Little Creatures was too tasty and barely touched the sides, leaving only this Holgate in the fridge. A rather enjoyable back-up plan it was too…

Described as a classic Porter with a ‘tempting twist’, this is infused with Dutch cocoa and whole vanilla beans, which sounds more like a beer plaything than a proper Porter. Yet this is pretty good – a rich, mid-weight and smoky porter with a sweet, chocolate milkshake vein through the palate that lingers rather nicely through the finish. I can’t imagine drinking more than one but, right now, with a Wagon Wheel (quiet night at home dessert of choice) it’s going down quite nicely.

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Andrew Graham was once voted the 23rd most trusted wine critic on the planet. A WCA Journalism Young Gun now old hack with 25yrs as a buyer, judge, journalist, marketer and too much more.

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3 responses to “BEER: Holgate Temptress Chocolate Porter”

Chris Plummer

October 9, 2011 at 12:42 am

Andrew,

Strangely, had a similar experience on friday, albeit with a much shorter journey to the Wine Centre and back. 😉

We finished off the night with a Pizza Capers (is that a Sydney franchise? looks it!) pepperoni and vegetarian (with anchovies) pizza with a very dry Brew Boys Ace of Spades Stout to wash 'em down. Not bad… 🙂

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Andrew Graham

October 9, 2011 at 12:58 am

Haven't heard of Pizza Capers. Good?

I think the Little Creatures was a better pizza beer and this a better dessert beer. I'm totally fine with two courses and two beers however 🙂

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Chris Plummer

October 11, 2011 at 7:39 am

Interesting. I could've sworn it was from Sydney. Certainly looks very 'east-coast-ish'. Google search reveals it's originally from Brisbane though… 🙂

It's pretty good stuff for a franchise style pizza joint though. Bases are a bit generic, but the range and diversity of pizzas is huge. Enough to make ya wanna go back to try something different each time anyway.

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