Name: Patrons Project 16.04 // Haze Outdoors // Bringing Yorkshire Brack // Brack Porter
Brewer: Northern Monk (United Kingdom)
Style: English Porter
ABV: 6.4%
Review Year: 2020
Inspired by Botham’s Yorkshire Brack cake in Whitby, Bringing Yorkshire Brack (Patrons Project 16.04 ) is a “Brack Porter” by Northern Monk released in collaboration with Haze Outdoors. This classic English Porter was brewed to replicate the flavors of the Yorkshire delicacy by featuring a diverse range of malts such as deep golden spring barley as the base, crystal malt, Belgian Special B, and Fawcett light crystal malt with additions of flaked oats among others. Review from the 2020 archive.
The Patrons Project is an initiative by Northern Monk to foster collaboration, creativity, and community between artists, athletes, and creatives across Northern England through curating beers that represent each chosen patron. The beers from the sixteenth series are tributes to Hazeoutdoors, a YouTube Yorkshireman and outdoors enthusiast. He spends his time out in nature practicing bushcraft, wild camping, and several other outdoor activities.
STYLE GUIDELINES
This beer is being evaluated as an English Porter (13C) in the context of the 2015 Beer Style Guidelines of the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). The most current version of the guidelines can be found on the BJCP website.
TASTING NOTES
Semi-opaque, ruby brown; tan head with good retention. The nose melded moderate chocolate with earthy and roasty coffee. Upon revisiting, the coffee aromas were more notable alongside hints of toffee, fig, cherry, and licorice. Medium-bodied, moderate carbonation with a smooth and slightly creamy mouthfeel. Like the aroma, the flavor was dominated by moderate chocolate, toasty, and coffee flavors with a low earthy-floral hop accent. As this beer settled, the chocolate flavor intensified, while additional subtle dark fruit and sweet bread flavors surfaced. Both bitterness and sweetness were balanced at moderate levels, both enhancing the malty presentation of this beer. The aftertaste lingered long with coffee, toffee, and a hint of cinnamon.
THE VERDICT
Bringing Yorkshire Brack aims to recreate the flavors of a Yorkshire Brack cake, which is something we have never tried. Bringing Yorkshire Brack is essentially a flavorful English Porter that harmonized coffee, toasty, earthy, and caramelly flavors with impressions of dark fruit and cherry. The roasty character was appropriately restrained and manifested as coffee-like; its intensity still a far cry from that of an Imperial Stout. Compared to a typical English Porter, we found this beer to have slightly more chocolate and fruity characters. Sweetness was notable, but it presented itself as natural and malt-driven rather than something derived from sugary adjuncts as with these so-called “pastry” or “dessert” beers in the market. Excellent.
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