Baltika 6 Porter

Brewed by Baltika Brewery (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg)
Style: Baltic Porter
St. Petersburg, Russia

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

Pours virtually black with small tan head; typical toasted caramel aroma holds some cocoa notes also; medium body, a bit sticky mouthfeel; quite roasty and dry, not that sweet for a baltic porter, flavor with light bitterness; licorice aftertaste, though, is both salty and sweet, which is actually pretty nice combination. Still it doesn´t save this baltic porter from being mostly pretty darn boring.

Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, vineous and dark fruit. Flavour is sweet roasted malt and dark fruit.

(Bottle) Poured black with medium sized and light brown head. Aroma contained liquorice, roastedness, sweetness and chocolate. Palate was medium bodied and dry with medium carbonation. Flavours were liquorice, roastedness, sweetness, chocolate and bitterness. Aftertaste was roasty and bitter.

Dark brown and tawny highlights, deep tan head. Aroma is toasty and caramel malt, which is replayed in the flavors. Comes off a bit sweet and simple, but there are some grassy hops and dried dark fruits. Okocim still rules for me!

Malty with a satisfying palate that like a complete meal. The initial flavor is reminicent of butter scotch.

Black in color with a good sized tan head. Aroma is of roasted malt, light roast coffee, and cocoa. Taste is of licorice, roasted malt and coffee.

Dark brownish in color, beige colored head, and dark. The smell is malts, roasty, a touch of hops, coffee, and ok. The taste is light bitterness, roast, hops, malts, and ok.

500ml Bottle: Pours a dark ruby brown, very nice rocky tan head that left quickly and left no trace on the glass. Sweet and sour earthy and vegetal aroma with molasses and cardboard. Not sure what to expect at this point. The first sip is quite nice and unique, strongly tasting of cherry cough medicine, which to me is a good thing. Lots of molasses, caramel, cocoa, and a good amount of spicy, bitter hops. Nice, oily mouthfeel.