Deep Ellum Double Brown Stout

Brewed by Deep Ellum Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Dallas, Texas USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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(Draught) Pours an opaque black body with a medium brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, anise, wet leather, and humidor. Flavor of smoke, toasted grain, lactose, wood, and baking cocoa.

Can poured a clear dark reddish brown with a lasting tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, cocoa and light earthiness. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of roasted malt and bakers cocoa with a smooth lingering roasty finish.

On tap at both BTBF and a few samples at Deep Ellum. Started off great, but the more samples (2 or 3) I drank at the after party, the more I wanted to get the Rye Pils or IPA instead. Pours with a near black, chocolate looking body with a tan head that lasts. Aromas are of chocolate, vanilla, cocoa, cola, molasses, chewy, earthy, light dark fruits. Flavors are of licorice, leather, earthy, currants, light chlorine. Medium bodied, mildly boozy.

on tap at BTBF, dark brown pour with tan foam, aroma of coffee and caramel, flavor of chocolate, roast malts, walnuts, light finish

(Draught at Common Table) cloudy deep brown with fine deep tan bubbles and excellent lacing. Nose is very roasty, hint of raisin, chocolate malt and cream. Taste is very roasty as well, chocolate malt, cream, and acidic coffee. Medium carbonation with a creamy body. Nice beer!

Bottle:   Super deep brown, moderate frothy light beige head, spotty lacing.   Sweet roasted malt nose, seems like a milk stout.   A bit more robust on the tongue, almost an acrid roastiness, minor sweetness, a bit of cocoa and hops.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Backside shows some youthfull porterness, a little green.   Some dark chocolate, pith, and green hops.   Seems like a mild to moderate Baltic Porter.   Overall decent, clean, but without the heavy dark pitted fruit or roasted characters I expect for the style.   Still enjoyable tho!

Black color with lasting tan sheen. Black licorice, nutty, dark chocolate aromas. medium body, average carbonation. Nutty, astringent, dry black malt, tobacco, dry chocolate flavors--a bit thin and dry

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Baltic Porter, eh? This really comes across as an "Imperial Brown Ale", so I was curious to see what the style was. I had a draft sample at Schlafly’s Repeal of Prohibition Festival, 2012. Pours a cloudy brown color with a small beige head. Huge, toasty aroma with nuts, brown sugar, bark, dark and dried fruits, and chocolate. The flavor is equally toasty and robust, with chocolate, toast, brown sugar, wood, earth, and dried fruits. Medium-bodied, toasty as can be, with moderate carbonation. This was my "Best In Show 2012" for all the guest beers at Repeal of Prohibition, and my wife’s, too. She went back for seconds and maybe thirds.

UPDATED: NOV 19, 2011 on tap. Black with a khaki head. Heavy chocolate, cocoa, roasted malts, and more milk chocolate. Great palate, nice smooth chocolate/ oat flavor, smooth finish.