4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 500ml. @ home.
Clear dark black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, berry tart, wood, oak, lacto - brett, light to moderate alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet, moderate to heavy acidic and moderate bitter with a long duration, balsamico. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finsh feel is light alcoholic. [20100228]
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500 ml bottle; batch 225 from September 2009; thanks to beerlando for the trade; pours dense black with creamy chocolate head along the edges; big nose of bakers chocolate, dry spices, vanilla cookies and burnt roast; pretty hefty flavor profile with heavy roast, chocolate, light tobacco, spicy rye, oak; silky texture with faint smokiness and spicy booze; lots of roasted malt but does maintain a relatively thin texture; fairly big beer overall, but more complex and well rounded than the standard barrel aged beer; silky, oaky almost red wine feel to it as it warms; roast mixed with sweet spice; a really nice and unique brew
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Black with a fizzy white head. Milk chocolate and a spiced liquor aroma. Tastes of chocolate, alcohol, grains of paradise, coffee and oak with a warm alcoholic finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500 mL bottle from Green’s Beverages in Atlanta. Pours a dark brown with a tan head. Nose is spice, slight booze, licorice, wood, slight chocolate, and dark fruit. Flavor is similar. I am not sure what Aqua Vita tastes like, but it does some nice things to this porter. Flavor swells with anise, the darkest of chocolate, roast, and dark fruit. Medium to full in body with some lingering spicy licorice and dark fruit.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle, brewed Aug 2008. Black with crimson tints and, by the time I saw it, no head. Very acidic aroma, citrus, plums, lactic acid, chocolate. Wee sour flavor, plums and grapes, chocolate, coffee, wine. Great sour balance. Well burnt malts. Wonderful stuff in great condition.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours black with a frothy brown head which fizzes away quickly. Nose is dark chocolate, roasty, aquavit as well once it warmed up a bit and woodsy as well. Flavor is full of roasty malts, caramel, chocolate, dark fruits, slight wood and finishes with a nice bitterness with the roasty flavors still present. Also get slight licorice. Great beer.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: AUG 17, 2009 Bottled at PBF. Near black, almost no head. Interesting tast vinous nose. Oaky nose Rodenbach style. Tart and lighter in body than expected. The roastiness from the porter only manifests itself as a slight hint of tar in the finish. Instead this beer is all about oaky tartness with vinegar and wood.
Finally Haandbryggeriet makes a beer that is not only interesting on the paper, this is by far the best ever from them!
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Black with a small tan head. Aroma of chocolate, berries and wine-like barrel. Slightly tart roasted flavour with strong chocolate, a barrel note again best described as wine-like. Uniqu and very interesting
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500 ml bottle # 147, 6% ABV. Very dark brown, almost black body with a thin brown head. Strong aroma of dark malt, dry fruit, lactic, wood and aqua vita. The aroma is the only place I can sense the aqua vita. Flavor is sweet, light roasted malt, dry fruit, soy souse, mild wood, Bret and quite strong acid. For me this is closer to a Rodebach than a porter even if this is something in between. Not as acidic as Rodenback Crand Cru, still way to acidic and funky for a porter. This is good, exiting and fun to taste, but I had to admit I used quite some time to finish a bottle by myself. Thanx to OleR.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Low fluffy but lasting off-white head. Absolutely no light coming through this black body. Astonishingly mild coffee cocoa liquorice aroma. Cocoa at the front of the flavor instead of the expected coffee. Followed by mild sweet liquorice. Little hops bitterness though. Sorry mates but to me it is more metal than wood in the flavor. Guess it is actually the aqua vitae that does the trick. Low carbonation. Long aftertaste. Quite different from what I expected. Thanks mates.
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