Irish Porter
Wow! What visually stunning cheese! With its chocolate coloured wax rind and dark brown and gold terrazzo like appearance, this promises to be an exciting discovery. Made with porter house ale, produced by Guinness, it just tantalises you in anticipation of what lies in store.
Irish Porter
However, looks and pedigree sometimes amount to very little, and this is sadly the case here. This is the Celine Dion of the cheese world, beautiful to look at, but no personality.
It has a milky, mild cheddar flavour with a slight hint of bitterness, but where’s the porter house ale?
It would make a fantastic centerpiece for any cheeseboard, and is bound to impress and initiate cheesy conversation, but for the hardend cheese afficionado… forget it.
Purchased from Cheese Please, Lewes.
Reviewed by Nick & Olympia, 2013
(2/5)