Ølfabrikken Porter

A grade Danish porter with a black body and a tight creamy head. The aroma is light, with notes of roasted grains. The flavor is light malty with a long bitter finish.

Batch 1141, brewed July 20, 2006

Pours a impenetrable dark brown with a fantastic thick solid-looking head with great retention - so thick it keeps its shape. Aroma is overwhelmingly present; marmite, fig, cocoa, molasses, the sweet essence of freshly-pulled espresso, rather than the bitterness thereof. What a first impression! Now in for the kill: I am surprised by the mouthfeel right off the bat, before my tastebuds have a chance to clock in: thin, reasonable carbonation but on the soft side. Then alcohol warms the finish and I start to detect what I’m actually tasting: milky, surprisingly nutty (probably the British brown malt) and delightfully chocolaty in the finish, not just cocoa but milk chocolate. Notes of fig remind me of a Baltic porter. Light buttered-toast notes in the finish, slight hop character but just enough to balance things out perfectly. While I was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t a big, thick, chewy sandwich of a porter, I do like the complexity of this beer a LOT. Many thanks to Boutip for the trade. My 500th rating!

Really exceptional. I do think this is the only beer that tastes as if it has more alcohol than it actually does in a good way. I would have guessed this one at around 11 or 12%, but after two glasses of this i really wanted to more. There are tons of vinous cherries, plums, blueberries and other dark fruits, figs, as well dark chocolate, not so much chocolate as much as cocoa. This was one complex beer.

Thanks to Gunhaver for recommending and treating us to this one. Bottle at OTH. Incredible porter. Rich black with flavors reminiscent of banana and chocolate malt.

bottle. pours a dark, dark, nearly opaque mahogany with a thick, dense, tan head that takes a while to bubble away. rich, decadent smell of roasted malt, molasses, chocolate, black cherries and cocoa. there’s a hint of a spicy hop laying the background as well. taste is a all of that and a bit more, with bitter cocoa, lightly roasted coffee-ness, a bit less molasses, and with some more spicy notes and touches of smoke and wood. moderate bitterness and sweetness on the end, but both stick around forever, and go great with the amazing silky-smooth mouthfeel. quite thick for a porter, reaching almost imperial-stout-like viscosity, with a ton of carbonation. yeah, it’s really thick. i feel like repeating that. and that mouthfeel is so perfect. smooth as glass but slick as teflon, even a bit creamy, and it just helps move the wonderful roasty flavors all over your mouth and causes everything to linger well after the beer is gone. on first sip, i was somewhat underwhelmed, but the more i drink, the more i like this beer.