Koff Porter

Brewed by Sinebrychoff (Carlsberg)
Style: Baltic Porter
Kerava, Finland

1st impression was wow!!! There is as much flavor in this as any beer will ever have. The aroma is undeniable. Malts ahoy, some chocolate, maybe molasses, and coffee. It’s appearance was a little disappointing, it was rather nil on the head scale, with a black body, and minimal head. The flavor is overwhelming, with alchohol, expresso, dark chocolate, malt, and maybe toffee or caramel. It’s feel is a bit bitter, and at times a bit too much, but all in all that should be expected a bit given it’s complexity. Nice!

Pours a rich brown color with tannish frothy head the fades quickly. Aroma is of semi-sweet chocolate, carmel, and molasses. Taste is caramel, molasses, traces of dark fruit and earth. Alcohol is well hidden but the earthiness lends to a bit of a dry finish. Still, it holds its own.

dark beer with a solid head. Although oak/wood flavors convey with the beer, it has little finish and is disappointing...

Black in color with a lasting tan off white head which fades rather fast, Aroma very molasses with chocolate notes with small hints of alcohol. Taste very watered down with hints of the chocolate and semi sticky molasses.

Bottle. Pours soild black with a large, lasting, tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, plums an dates. Soft carbonation. One of my absolute favorites!

(cleaning out my beer bottle collection as pictured in my profile and utilizing ratebeer.com) As I recall, this was one of my favorite porters. I actually kept this bottle. Incredible mix of chocolate, dark malts, and roasted coffee.

Pours a dark chocolate brown with a large chocolate head that fades rather quickly leaving spotty lacing. Aroma is chocolate, dark malts, bourbon, and a bit of molasses. The taste is very smooth.....almost a bit too flat, but very drinkable - chocolate, roasted/burnt malts. Very balanced in my book. A great porter for the price.

Bottle at The Diamond. This beer poured very dark, almost black with a red hue to it. Small to no head. The nose was almost whiskey like, but not the taste. A delicious and complex flavor, with hints of chocolate and burnt malts. Great carbonation too. What surprised me was how thin the mouthful was, but how intense and full the flavor is, and with so much carbonation it is almost soda like.