Einstök Icelandic Toasted Porter

Einstök Ölgerð
Brewed at Viking Ölgerd
Style: Porter
Akureyri, Iceland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle. Dark mahogony beer with a tan head. Toasted malt aroma with light nuttiness. Toasted malt flavor with light caramel. Medium bodied. Toasted malt lingers with light nuttiness and light caramel.

Bottle at home, 21st April 2012. Good Porter nice smoky toasted flavour and good smooth palate. Not bad

From the bottle. Black, little head. Aroma a little yeasty at first but clears to a faint chocolate aroma. Very nice coffee and chocolate flavours and a little hoppy bitterness to finish. Iceland not noted for its beer, but just the thing to quaff from a horn in a mead hall before aweekend away in the longboat with some likeminded lads for a bit of a pillage.

Bottle from Kris Wines. Dark brown with a small gold head. Aroma is smoky, meaty, bit of black treacle, coffee and soy sauce. Taste is pleasantly smoky and spicy with a bit of coffee bitterness. Lots of burnt malt. And again, something slightly savoury. Body is a bit thinner than I would have expected, but this is a pretty interesting and tasty beer.

330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. There’s something very compelling about the notion of an Icelandic Toasted Porter. And the beer is very tasty. Quite clean and lacking a bit in character, so this is more in the American tradition than European, but acceptable. Smooth and soft with coffee and chocolate notes. Quite predictable, but then most dark beers are.

Bottle at home. Pours a very dark brown with a rich beige head. Aroma is malty toffee, with raisin and creosote notes. Thin and a little tart on the palate, chocolate and raisin flavours play lighty over the tongue with a slight white coffee creaminess. A roasty malty milk chocolate aftertaste fades lightly and rather tastily away. Very pleasant and ticks all the right boxes for me.

33cl bottle to take away from the Beer House, Charing Cross. Black with brown tinges and a fast settling espresso crema. Treacle and coffee on the nose plus maybe a hint of strawberry. Body is a little thin for a rich porter, but very flavoursome, with roasted coffee and malt, plus a little dry peppery hop bitterness. Slight tartness in the finish along with more roast malt and some burnt caramel.

Bottle. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. MOderate bitter flavor. Long moderate bitter finish. Nice chocolate notes. Creamy palate.

Bottle from Kris Wines. Nice big creamy head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are milk chocolate, roast malt, smoke, notes of bacon and hops. Oily palate and medium carbonation.

very dark ruby black. dark tan head, no retention. toasty aroma. big roasted coffee flavour. good silky mouth feel. pleasantly surprised!