Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter

Brewed by Ballast Point Brewing Company
Style: Porter
San Diego, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle. Clear medium black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, milk chocolate, mild coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (271007)

Bottled. A deep red beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet roasted with strong notes of chocolate as well as over ripe fruits. The flavor is sweet roasted with notes of cocoa beans combined with a slight acidity from the hard roasted malt. Thanks David (Rastacouere) for dragging this to Denmark.

From tap at the brewery. Pours black with a light orange glare and a lacing tan head. Roasted malt and coffeeish aroma. Roasted malty and light chocolate smoothness. Lingering roasted malty and light chocolate malty finish. light acidic fruity touch too.

(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of Rastacouere. Clear, reddish brown with a beige head. Fat aroma of sweetish, roasted malt. Medium body with sweetish, roasted malt, fruity and berry-like with a mellow, sweet finish and a vague, ashy edge. 090507

Bottled (at some pub during the pub crawls in Copenhagen (Maybe Örsted?)). Very deep ambery brown colour with mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, some smoked wood, quite strong roasted coffee as well as some mild caramel malty notes. Mild fruityness also lurking. Flavour is quite much the same in a rather big way, even though in a good balance. Has some late hoppyness. Quite dry.

Bottled. Black, dense beige head. Grapefruity nose. Dryish with clean mouthfeel. A good mix of salty licorice and other flavours associated with roasted malt and grapefruity hops. Fairly clean mouthfeel and straightforward flavour profile. medium bitterness.

Draught at GABF 2008. Dark brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of chocolate and caramel. Roasted flavour of caramel, chocolate, coffee and hops. Roasted finish.

Bomber from VinensVerden, Odense. Pours nearly black with a small creamy brown head and lacings. Nose is roasted coffee and chocolate. Somehow moderate and very inviting. Very smooth and soft palate. Taste has chocolate, coffee and a hint of dark fruits. Vague ashy notes. Well balanced and overall super drinkable!

Draught at the Yard House, Honolulu, HI
Dark brown color, with some red shade, and small head. Some dark caramel and roasted malt aroma, with hints of oxidisation. Lean mouthfeel, pleasant roasted malt flavor, still delicate, with a hint of fruitiness and freshness from the hops; quite strong bitterness, but overall balanced.
Well brewed and pleasant.

Cask. Toffee and coffee aroma. Almost black colour, seems cloudy. Small frothy tan head. Perfumy coffee flavour, seems a little sour. Citric burn in the finish... wax? Strangely sour. Watery mouthfeel.