Koff Porter

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

Bottle, 7.2%. Black colour, dark brown head. No aroma to speak of. Sweet, roasted and creamy flavour. Medium bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel.

Pours with almost no head and black but if tilted it reveals a very dark birch beer color. The nose reminds me of a good Pedro Ximenez, sweet, raisiny with hints of coffee and chocolate bar. Broad and ever so smooth on the palate. Tastes like it smells with moderate hopping and the alcohol heft is well integrated. Subtle compared to some imperial stouts. Just right for what it is.

bottle: pours very black no light comes thru. nice tan head. aroma of dark fruits some malt and hops. the flavour is sweet with chocolate bliss and a nice bitter coffee finish. a fantastic porter.

Bottle. Porter IVB. Dark black color with a large good lacing light brown head. Aroma is light malty, hoppy, yeasty, fruit, notes off alcohol. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration. Bitternes is coffe, chocolate bitternes. Body is medium to full, texture is oily. Good balance and complex taste.

Pours a dark dark brown, with a huge thick clump of tan foam. The head sticks around forever, leaving excellent lacing. Bold sweet aroma has a little bit of tart stone fruit (chokecherry?) and caramel. Flavors of smooth sweet caramel malt -roasted grain, a bit of coffee, some bitter dry chocolate, and more stone fruit. Mildly spicy hop bitterness. Aftertaste is complex with some alcohol like a sweet rum, more spicy hops, some floral hops, old coffee, and bitter roasted grain. Soft carbonation, full body.

2000 bottle. Doesn’t get much blacker than this; leaves a nice olive-brown film on the glass. Aroma is chocolate covered cherry. Flavors are a cascading waterfall of roasted malt, cranberry, and port wine. A pleasant bitter coffee finish is left on the palate. Lingering mouthfeel that reincarnates the flavors slowly and pleasantly. Fantastic. The alcohol sits quietly so the the flavors can take center stage.

11.2 oz botle from slob, who, as anyone who has traded with him knows, is the MAN. Jet black with a brown head. Big sweet nose, lots of dark molasses, raisin and sticky malt. Flavor is more bitter than expected, but with an underlying syrupy sweetness - coffee, sweet malt, molasses, some chocolate and caramel. Thick body, smooth. Excellent.

11.2 oz bottle from World Of Beer. This is one of the darkest beers I’ve seen. It’s just absolutely black with a brown to light brown head. Full inviting aroma of molasses, dark fruit like dates and plums. The aroma is complex. I also get roasted malts, chocolate malts, and a bit of alcohol. From the fist two sips I get a metallic note that de-rails a nice tasting beer just as it was getting started. This off note does seem to subside as more beer is consumed. If this was a 22oz the second half of the beer would be flawless. So behind the initial metallic shavings I taste flavors that mirror the aroma with molasses, dates, plums, roasted malts and chocolate malts. Overall a nice tasting brew that leaves a rich roasted and chocolate malt taste behind.