3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a dark chocolate colour, nice sweet aroma, little nutty with big bold flavors. Carmel, tofee and a little metallicy.Semi sweet- semi dry, decent all around.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
bottle. Pours black with an even light tan head. Noticeable alcohol in the nose, but it blends quite well with the very sweet roastiness which has a strangely vinous quality. Really dense caramel malts give this a scotch ale quality. There’s a bit of coffee too, but it’s like old stale coffee. The sweet foundation is the most prominent thing and does well to balance any bitterness in this brew.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. Pours a blackish brown with a diminishing brown head. Aroma is spicy, with a bit of chocolate. The body is medium, creamy with moderate carbonation. The taste is sweet, with roasty malt, prunes, chocolate and nuts leading to a spicy, lightly bitter finish. A surprisingly big beer for a porter. (An Imperial Baltic Porter?)
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle, Manas AB Kyrgystan. Strong and full of flavor. This is a good beer with a nice roasty/smoke malt flavor and fairly strong bitterness. Worth seeking out.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500 ml bottle @ home. Rated @ 21.2.2010.
Dark brown colour with a thick white head. Dark fruits, roasted malts and caramel on the nose. Flavour of pleasant roastiness, caramel, mild hops. Medium bodied and a warming finish. Pretty good and goes well with food.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from John’s Market Place--Poured a deep dark black body with a small tan head. Nose of sweet malt, creamy chocolate and dark fruits. Lingering rich full-bodied flavor. On par with other flavorful Baltic Porters like Zywiec and Okocim. Yum.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Brown bottle, 500 ml, production date of 15.08.09, best before 15.02.10, drank in its glass, purchased at he LCBO on November 13 2009, savoured on December 7 2009; eye: black, opaque, thick coffee head that turns into a creamy sheet, light lacing; nose: roasted malt, light burnt malt, light fruity, molasses, light chocolate milk; mouth: roasted malt, light burnt malt, light fruity, molasses, tiny hint of hops, light chocolate milk, finale in molasses with presence of roasted malt, medium body, not much carbonation, slightly bitter, acrid and lactic, mildly sweet; overall: fine
FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, date de production 15.08.09, meilleure avant 15.02.10, bue dans son verre, achetée à la LCBO le 13 novembre 2009, savourée le 7 décembre 2009; œil : noire, opaque, épaisse couche de mousse café qui se transforme en une couverture mousseuse, légère dentelle; nez : malt rôti, léger malt brûlé, léger fruité, mélasse, léger lait au chocolat; bouche : malt rôti, léger malt brûlé, léger fruité, mélasse, petite pointe de houblon, léger lait au chocolat, finale en mélasse avec présence de malt rôti, corps moyen, peu carbonatée, très légèrement amère, âcre et lactique, moyennement sucrée; en résumé : bien
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle - 500ml. Opaque black body with low carbonation and a thick beige foamy head. Good malty/hoppy aroma with roasted coffee and dark chocolate hints. Taste is very well balanced. It carries these same chocolate and coffeeish notes as the aroma, hides the alcohol pretty well, and ends with a decent bittersweet, warming finish. This is probably the only product from Baltika that deserves any attention.
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