Titanic Brewery Plum Porter Beer Review

Now this is a beer I've been longing to review. Titanic Plum Porter sounds like everything I should like in a beer, a porter with a little bit extra, so fingers crossed it lives up to my high expectations. Just for the record Titanic is a Stoke on Trent based brewery established in 1985, so it was born 4 years after me. They've got over 20 beers on the go, have won a few awards, and are generally pretty well regarded, and I don't think I'm going out on a limb by saying the Plum Porter is their biggest hit so far, it's certainly the most widely available, or maybe it just always catches my eye. 

Plum Porter comes in a nice plum coloured 500ml bottle and pours a really dark ruby red, you actually have to put it near a light to see it's not quite black. The head is absolutely spot on what you'd want from a beer, it's not too thick, it's not too thin, it's just right. Weighing in with a 4.9% alcohol content titanic are playing this reasonably safe, it's a nice percentage, it's a percentage you can drink a few of and not wake up the next day feeling like you've been hit by a bus, which is always nice. However it will get you nice and tipsy. I really do think this is an exceptionally good looking beer. 

The aroma is one of the strongest I've smelt in a while, but it's really fruity and sweet. To say this smells like plums would be a bit of an understatement, and a bit of an undersell, sure they are dominant, but there's more going on. There's dark fruits in here, there's malts, but yea it's all about the plums. The beer smells amazing, it's well balanced, it's strong, and I really want to drink it. I'm a porter fan, but they can be a little samey sometimes, maybe even a little bland. If the smell of Plum Porter is anything to go by this wont be bland.

Thankfully the taste matches, and even surpasses the smell. The dark fruits just balance out the plums to perfection, it's sweet, but still feels like a beer. The texture is full bodied, and yet it's so easy to drink you could have pint after pint and never feel like your full. I honestly think this is one of the best beers I've ever tasted. Everything about it does exactly what it says on the bottle, it's fruity, it's deep, it's dark, it's wonderful. There's no wonder this bad boy has won awards. It's not going to surprise anyone who's read this far that I'm giving Titanic Plum Porter a 10 out of 10, it's an absolutely fantastic beer, whenever and wherever you see it buy it.