Alaskan Pilot Series: Baltic Porter

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: Baltic Porter
Juneau, Alaska USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottled. Near black, small beige head. Chocolate sauce aroma. Sweet with vanilla, cream and cocoa. Full bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Lots of vanilla and chocolate, but with seemingly rather shallow character,

22oz. Bottle (2009 Vintage): Complex aroma of malt, caramel, slight cherry, light vanilla, light chocolate, and hints of dark ripe fruits and rum-marinated raisins. Poured very dark brown/ruby in color with a small, creamy, dense, rocky, tan/light brown head that diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet. Tastes of roasted malt, chocolate, slight alcohol, light caramel, slight smoke, vanilla, slight coffee, and a hint of hops. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Roasted malt, vanilla, chocolate, slight coffee, and slight caramel finish is slightly dry. 9.8%ABV a bit noticeable in the flavor, but hardly.

2009 bottle from unknown. Thanks though! Pours a pretty dark blackish brown, a small frothy tannish head dies to a nice film, laces small. Aromas are roasty and dry, some coffee, molasses and toffee, caramel. Some pitty cherries and raisins, vanilla, touches of oak. Fairly sweet, brown sugar and toffee, creamy sweetness prevails over roast. Initial is sweeter and silky, roasted malts and coffee, brown sugar, syrupy molasses, sweet lingering cocoa sweet and bitter mix. medium bodied, raisins and plum sweetness, cherries soaked in vanilla. Finish is sweet, touches of medicinal cherries, vanilla, roasty malts. Vanilla really gets stronger, Baskin Robbins-esque, brown sugar. Not bad, the cherries get a little Luden’s like, a touch medicinal, the roast falls behind instead bringing brown sugar, vanilla, and some light roasty cocoa to the fold. Nice beer, much different than anticipated. Sweet overall

Bottle 22fl.oz.

Clear dark black brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, fruity, cacao, raision, prune, rum marinated raisins. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20101031]

Great! Big time porter. Full on roasted flavor. So nice and smooth. Big time malts. You can taste the vanilla in it. Pours jet black with a thin white head on it.

bottle at home ... thin tan head ... sweet fruity chocolatte roast malt nose ... sweet blackcurrant ... toffeee ... roast malts ... little caramel sugers ... rum soaked raisins... but not to alcohol

Alaskan Baltic Porter Ale Pours murky dark brown, almost black with a medium tan head and ok retention. Very little lacing. Sweet boozy aroma of chocolate, raisins, and freedom (so sayeth the wife) with brown sugar. Flavor is much the same (minus the freedom) with semi-sweet chocolate, booze, dark fruits and caramel. Good shit, really good shit.

2009 bottle served in a snifter. Black pour, thin head and slightly fizzy around the top of the glass. The nose is intoxicating. Dark cherries, sweet charred oak, and anise. I’m sure the aroma will open up and become more complex as the glass warms. This is probably true for the taste as well. This bottle is a 2009 that has been in my fridge for a while. Initial flavors are espresso and burnt wood. There is vanilla flavor but not the sweetness you would expect. It’s very roasty and bitter. Some of the sweetness does become more apparent as the temperature increases. There’s a nice alcohol warmth on the palate and a medium-full body. I love big stouts but this is big for the style. Overall a really excellent beer. I’m loving Baltic Porters right now and am fully supporting Alaskan’s efforts to add unique and special brews to their stable.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown almsot black color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity slightly roasted amlty vanilla aroma. Sweetish roasted malty vanilla and banana flavor with hints of caramel. Has a sweetish malty chocolate finish with hints of vanilla.

(22oz bottle-2009). Pours nearly black with pillowy tan head. Lots of small carbonation bubbles and decent lacing. Aroma of vanilla, some coffee, slight smoke and I can detect some cherries (maraschino?). Creamy sweetness (now the cherries really come through) with hints of roasty bitterness and some sourness from the cherries. Medium bodied with a creamy texture. Carbonation is pretty flat and finish is quite long. Where is the 9.8% alcohol? This is a really good beer. Just delicious. I’ll definitely stock up before they are gone for the season.