3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dark brown, deep amber straight thru when backlit. Aroma is a sweet backlit chocolate. Oh! how I love this style. Flavor is also sweet, but a bit more spicy and less milky. Thin syrup on the palate. a little bread, hints of molasses. Cocoa. slight lager flavor apparent. I love this style!
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500mL Bottle, purchased at Westmere Beverage Center - Albany, NY. Camping backlog from notes. This beer must have been on the shelf for awhile, because the bottle was stratified. With the top half coming across like a brown ale and the bottom half kicking ass as a rich deep porter. No signs of oxidation, however. Clean, well-hidden alcohol, rich roasty porter notes, and lots of overall malt complexity with a clean yeast. Yum!
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Aroma: best part of the beer: coffee comes through very strong with hints of chocolate.
Appearance: pours black, 3/4 inch white head, no lacing.
Taste: malty, chocolate, and coffee.
Palate: Good full mouthfeel
Overall a great beer for the price. The higher alcohol isn’t overpowering in the taste.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled sample. Very dark brown in colour with medium carbonation. Aromas are of milk chocolate, heavy malts, booze, and faint cherry. Strong chocolate syrup flavour component, along with a bit of Whoppers malted candies, mocha late, and a bit of vanilla. Medium bodied with a semi-sweet finish. Aside from a touch of booziness on the nose, it hides its strength quite well. Definitely an after dinner in-lieu-of-dessert type of beer, but a pretty well put together one at that.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Previously lost notes from GBBF 2006. Ruby coloured. Buttery aroma, a bit of cardboard and a bit stale. Sweet fruitcake, caramel and maybe a bit of sherry. Interesting.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: JUL 27, 2011 Tried in a bottle. A very nice porter from Poland. Strong, malty and very dark.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A - Smokey molasses
A - Dark with thick white head
T - Light smokey sweetness, finish with a dry bitterness. Nice and controlled
P - Full and soft
O - A really good porter
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Sampled from a bottle at SIB. Pours a clear dark red/brown with a small lacing.Aroma of liqueur, caramel, and toasted malts. Flavour reflects this. Medium bodied. Tasty.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sampled from bottle at SIB, pours dark reddish brown with a small ring of beige head. Aroma of sweet liqueur, caramel and toasted malts. Flavour of toasted malts, caramel and slight liqueur qualities on the finish. Nice porter.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Purchased at Breeze Thru Liquors in Milwaukee, WI; enjoyed on a Tuesday night while making fish tacos for my lovely future wife and a friend. Appearance a very dark brown with thin off white head that rims around the glass. Aroma of licorice, vanilla, chocolate, dark fruits, actually quite complex and interesting. Taste is quintessential Baltic Porter, the caramel malts come out a bit more in the taste, nicely carbonated and man, for a 9.4% ABV this is some smooth stuff. I’m not a big fan of beers that have that licorice / dark fruit complexity but this stuff is pretty good.
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