3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Date: 3/30/2007
Serving: 500 mL bottle (7% ABV). Thanks Matt!
Event: Weekly Friday night tasting.
Location: River’s Bend Wine & Spirits.
Tasting Notes
Aroma: Chocolate, cream, and a little smoke.
Appearance: Nearly opaque dark brown color with some ruby red highlights. The head is small, creamy, and dark beige/light brown in color.
Flavor: Rich chocolate and cocoa with some smoked/char and aged dark fruits. Roasty finish. Mellow bitterness (just enough to add balance and depth). Just a touch of alcohol is noticeable in the flavor.
Palate: Smooth and creamy.
Overall: An excellent Baltic Porter at a great price! Quite tasty.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. Probably the beer to get when you’re in Russia. Nice maple smell, and pours with a notably brown rocky head. Has some good coffee roast malt notes, and then maple, and a little bit of honey, come back as you sip. In fact, it almost has some barley wine character that makes it well worth picking up.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
So this is a baltic porter? Blah. Not a favorite. Aroma of strong licorice and alcohol. Pour was a pitch black with a one finger tan head. Taste was very licorice like which I hate. Heavy dark fruits and coffee in the background. This is too strong and taste is too dark for me.
2.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 8/20
Dark brown with a wonderful brown head, good lacing. Aroma is a delicious strawberry and vanilla. Taste doesn’t measure up. Light hops and faint charcoal, with an abrupt finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a very dark brown with hardly a head. Aroma is of roasted malts and a little bit of coffee and dark fruits. Flavor is very sweet almost of a dunkel rather than a porter.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Good porter, nice pour. There was a nice full roast, almost licorice taste to this one. Bitter. Of the three Baltika I had, my favorite.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
16.9 oz, bottled 9/29/10. Dark brown with a slim beige head. Nose is coffee, prune, cabbage and peanut. Medium body with a foamy mouthfeel finishing a bit oily. Taste is stale cocoa, coffee, black olive and ash. Decent buzz for the buck.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle brought over from Kaliningrad by one of Masha’s friends, much appreciated. Drunk at tashi’s place, 15th June 2008. Near black in colour and almost totally still, this has a delicate soft malt and dark chocolate flavour and aroma. It’s very smooth with a sweet aftertaste. Brings back great memories of my 2006 road trip to Kaliningrad with tashi and it’s still an awesome beer. The new bottle shape with embossed crest looks really classy and is easier to hold. Now the brewery just needs to see the light and make it readily available in the UK!
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