Avery Ballsmack!!! Baltic Porter

Formerly brewed at Avery Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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We use to frequent the brewery every week while living in Boulder... Which we terribly miss!! Anyway, back to the beer; it was a very pleasant surprise the day we tasted this delicious treat. As far as top 5 beers I have ever had in my life, and it’s an extensive collection, this is the best for style and taste. It’s aroma is amazing and you don’t know good beer until you have tried this one. Go visit, but don’t stay ; )

on tap at Avery on 4/9/10... light black pour with an off white head... medium body with big roasted malts, some nuts and a sweet finish with oat notes... a good bitterness on the end as well...

On tap at the brewery. A nice dark pour with an aroma that has the hoppy notes, as well as the roasted nut and chocolate too. Very smooth beer.

On tap at Avery in Boulder. Pours a clear, deep mahogany with a reddish hue. Finger-width, creamy, brown head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is soft roasts and bittersweet chocolate with some toffee, earth, and dark fruits. Flavor is similar with rich chocolates, caramel, and toffee, but plenty of roasts and earth. A bit of a dark fruit and a good amount of citrusy hops too. Dry and moderately bitter with a lengthy aftertaste after a smooth, crisp, light to medium body. Overall, a really tasty baltic porter. Well hopped with a nice roast to go with an easy drinking crispness. Nice.

On tap at Avery tasting room poured a clear dark brown with a lasting brown head. Aromas of bitter chocolate, coffee, roasdtiness, light vanilla and light smoke. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of roasted malt, bitter chocolate, light smoke and a hint of coffee with a smooth dry lingering roasty finish.

Draft at brewery, pours brown with white head. Nose is piney, toasted malts, flavors have a big hop presence for the style, pine, grapefruit, with a charred chocolatey finish. Pretty smooth finish. Not bad.

tap. unfiltered dark brown body, rich toffee-colored crema. mocha, toffee, caramel, dates in the nose, low level of aromatic hops, medium yeast phenolics. silky and slightly sweet up front, moderately bitter across the middle, somewhat creamy and thick/hearty in the back. toasted grains, black patent malt, milk chocolate, etc. better than expected.

A fairly solid strong dark lager - smooth and creamy texture - sweet up front, with rich chocolate flavors - dry and roasty later, with a medium-low level of hop bitterness to compliment it - a bit of bright berry character near the finish - a couple of off yeast characteristics, but nothing major - lingering cocoa and hops - decent.

(Draught) Pours a dark brown (near black) body with a medium tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, grass, and caramel. Flavor of chocolate, grass, citrus, caramel, roastiness, and nuts with a dry, bitter finish.

Tap at Avery. Pours a deeper brown with amber notes and a medium bubbly creamy tan lacing head. Aroma of toasted malt, chocolate and toffee. Flavor of chocolate, toasted malt, caramel and sweet malts.