3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle. Dark brown hue with a finger width of quickly dissipating beige head. Mild cookie nose. Medium sweet and smooth. Good session brew despite the juice. Mildly lively with roasty cocoa notes and bready malts. Touch of caramel. Easy drinking with good malt palate. Spot on with slick alcohol notes. Oily and sticky. Vanilla notes mixed in with a slight bitterness. Nice and quaffable.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Black coloured beer with some average carbonation and a large brown head. Roasted malty aroma. Full palate, slightly roasted, bitter sprankling. Finish is burned bitter malty with near the end a more alcoholic bitter touch. Nice one
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle. Aroma is sweet and rich, with notes of molasses, milky chocolate, raisin, vanilla and faint roastiness. Deep brown-black color with an uneven tan head. Flavor is toasty to start and very lightly bitter to start, with a darkly fruity middle reminiscent of prune and licorice and having a big, sweet, dark brown sugary finish. Somewhat thin on the palate, body is medium-full. Interesting enough, in its way.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
well-made with a distinct but subtle smokiness; has nowhere near the messy high-alchohol trappings of other Baltic Porter; in fact I think it's a very good intro to the style. Falls a little thin toward the end with warming, but still smooth and with well-rounded tastes of some nut, sweet brown sugar and smoke.
2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle, dark brown with a bubbly beige head. A strong roasted aroma, mostly coffee but also sweeter caramal notes. Carbonated and overly tart for me on the palate, but soem roasted malt flavours with a sweeter and hoppy fruit touch. Maybe I have had this a bit warm, as don’t rate it as highly as others.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Black, though not completely opaque. In light a slight red glow is visible. About 1 cm beide head disappearing fast. Smell wort, coffee, roasted malts and dark chocolate. Light bitterness. Pretty complex taste all things considered. Taste is good, carbo ok, body medium to full.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle 50 cl, Alko Loimaa. Pours pitch black with a fluffy light brown head leaving lace. Aroma is very pleasant; sweet, malty, roasted, spicy, eartht and bready. Velvety malty mouthfeel. Flavor is balanced between the sweet, maltu, roasted and bitter with tones of caramel, dark fruuts and raisins. Finishes sweet, roasted and bitter all in balance.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Color is dark as dark can be, beneath a big, bubbly, crackling tan head. Aroma is full of cocoa, nuts, and sweet candyish flavors. Medium body, light in texture, but really tasty, rich, satisfying. The ABV is 7%, but I didn’t feel it in the least. Wait a minute...okay, now I do! Very tasty, and a welcome surprise, an excellent porter, an enjoyable beer!
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