FiftyFifty Rouge Baril Baltique

Brewed by FiftyFifty Brewing Co.
Style: Baltic Porter
Truckee, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Thank you wavers1 for this bomber! Pours dark brown with ruddy/ruby-ish heart and beige persistent halo of compact bubbles. Floury, tart and red fruit aromas, low note of cocoa. Layered flavors of tart blackberry jam, dusty flour, and plum butter (NOT butter, but a smooth jam made from tart plums) with tart red wine/red fruits mid-palate and a longer finish that builds into some drying bitterness. Lager-like quality in that it’s clean, and core is somewhat hollow, but the body is medium, slightly oily; some oxidative notes, no roast or overt hoppiness (all welcome).

Bottle thanks to thirdeye11) Nose is chocolate, vanilla, caramel, coconut, wood..Taste is woody, chocolate, coffee, caramel, grape..Palate is thick with chocolate, and wood.

22oz bottle pours a watery, opaque black with one ring of creamy head. Nose is cherry, chocolate, light vinegar, a little wood, flowers. Flavor is nice, chocolate, toast, wood, vinegar, pencil lead, cherry, raspberry. Full bodied, tart, finish. A nice, dark sour.

22oz bomber pour courtesy of cmillward or popery, can’t remember which one, thanks guys. It pours mahogany with brown edges and tan head. The aroma has interesting notes with sweet apple like notes flowing into spicy black licorice and then some red wine tart notes. The taste has tart red wine notes, some dark roasted malts and a bit of black licorice that bleeds into a touch of chocolate malts. This is kind of on the tart side and ends rather dry. Hmm.

red-sepia, thin tab ring with wispy top, very spotty. Chocolate cake and bourbon nose, heavily hot sweetness. Flavor is hot through mid, cake, bit of soy, bit if berry and oxidation through the end.

(22oz bottle, courtesy of thirdeye11) Pours a dark brown body with a spare beige head. Aroma of wood, vinous, chocolate, and caramel. Flavor of vinous, wood, caramel, chocolate, raisins, caramel, and earth with a dry finish.

(22oz bomber) dark brown with ring of fine tan bubbles. Nose of French oak, chocolate malt, pretty rich. Taste is really oaky, very mild vinous notes, very toasty, chocolate malt, odd earthy component, just super tannic and way too much wood ester influence. Dry, oaky finish that’s just piney. Disappointing.

22oz bottle thanks to MrChopin: Pours a mostly opaque dark mahogany with a thin, spotty-lacing off-white head. Has a lightly sweet dark caramel and milk chocolate nose with a touch of vinous complexity. Starts fairly thin for the style with only a faint sweetness and vinous tart fruitiness before a drier finish. Definitely needs more body.

Bottle shared by GT2 . Pours black with a small, fizzy tan head, short retention with light lacing. Aroma is fruity esters, toast and caramel malt, floral hops. Flavor is malt forward with medium hops and bitterness, ligjt esters and a dry finish. Medium body warmth and carbonation.

651mL thanks to MrChopin. Pours near black, hazy, with a medium tan head. Webby lace. Nose is red wine, saltwater, small bourbon, dark chocolate. Taste is bitter dark chocolate, assert tangy cherry juice, mild lactic sourness. Lemon tea and citric sourness. Quick, quenching palate. Very nice. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

22oz bottle, thanks MrChopin. Small beige head atop cola black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, vinous, bittersweet chocolate, some vinous. Taste is moderately sweet, vinous, some bittersweet chocolate.