Baltika 6 Porter

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Smells like a Milky Way bar -- chocolate and caramel! Pours dark brown with red tints when held up to the light, with a thin tightly packed tan head. Tastes like cocoa, hardly even seems like a beer! Very tasty. Thick consistency, goes down smooth and creamy.

Bomber bottle poured a deep dark clear brown hue w/ a big thick tan head slowly dissipating and good lacing. Medium to strong aromas of caramel, roasted coffee, and licorice. Initial flavor is light sweet w/ a light bitter finish.Tastes are chocolate, licorice, and caramel. Medium bodied and soft carbonation.

Cerveza negra con espuma densa y cremosa. Sinceramente esperaba mucho más de esta cerveza. El olor a grano tostado, y el sabor a café, regaliz y algunas especias ligeramente picante al final. Sin embargo, me parece que tiene bastante presencia alcohólica para tener sólo siete grados, y aunque tiene cuerpo medio, me resulta algo aguada.

aroma of bread, and maybe some plum and caramel, a clear black beer with a fine white head. soft bitter aftertaste, a beer with a creamy texture. average carbonation.

Pours black with thick tan head. Chocolate, roasted malt and caramel aromas. Roasted malt, chocolate and coffee flavors. Sweet and creamy with a smooth finish.

Bottle into glass.. Dark pour..not much head..funky aroma for porter..roten fruit.., tasse is kinda hard to pount out..some chocolate fruit..weird..

Láhev 500 ml. Po nalití, zajímavé kávové a karamelové aroma doprovázené alkoholovým nádechem, Pěna je nižší, tmavší krémové barvy s velice jemnými bublinkami. Pivo je velmi černé jen s malými náznaky tmavě rudé barvy při pohledu proti světlu. Chuť piva je jemně kávová doprovázená karamelem. Finiš připomíná chuť banánu která je snoubená s alkoholem. Pivo je celkově sladšího rázu velmi dobře pitelné a příjemné.

500 ml bottle from the Mix Markt in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Pours black with a caramel tint and a moderate tan head. Some bread and caramel and malt aroma. Taste is roasty with very mild sweetness and a hop bitterness and a slightly astringent finish. Lots of sparkling carbonation. Decent beer. I think this might be the best beer I have had from Russia.

16.9 fl oz / 500mL bottle into a pint glass. Served cold. Aroma: Chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, and a little caramel sweetness. Appearance: Barely translucent dark brown/deep red/violet. Thick dark tan head that goes away quickly. Light to no lacing. Taste: Dark, bitter chocolate. Almost a little smoky. Maybe the slightest hint of anise in here. Really a delicious porter. Palate: Full body, a little heavy, but not overpowering. The 7% alcohol isn’t obvious. Creamy, rich, and full. Overall: Wow what a great porter! This stuff is fantastic. I wasn’t expecting much after drinking Baltika 2-5, but this stuff is really, really good. I’m pleasantly surprised!

Not a bad Baltic Porter at all. Aroma is not too thrilling, with a lot of karamel, ashes, over a faint nose of a cheap dunkel. That is so un-porter that it makes it difficult to believe it is brewed "according to old English recipes" as advertised. As a true Baltic Porter, it is likely made with lager yeast, but I cannot vouch for that. Anyway, I get flavours of chocolate, a good dose of maltiness, a nice peaty bitterness that rolls around the mouth, releasing the alcohol that was fairly well-hidden, a sort of a quarter of a dram that would have been poured into the bottle. . The beer is rather thin bodied, but it still gets you that rubbery feel under the bite. I’ve been to Russia a few times in a different life, and I wish they had offered me this Baltic Porter as a choice.