Koff Porter

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

Bottle shared by mikemac: Black with a dark tan head. Aroma of dark fruits, some coffee, and a bit of chocolate. Flavor, molassas, prunes, coffee. Pretty solid. Picked up a 1998 bottle that I can’t wait to try. Re-rate: 1998 vintage: Black with a small tan head. Aroma, some fruits, chocolate, and a hint of soy. Flavor, sweet chocolaty, some coffee, a bit of soy again, but nothing offensive. It held up pretty damn well.

Vintage 2000 - Pours pitch black with a fully receding mocha head. Aroma of rum, phenolic spice, fruity chocolate. Taste is spicy, chocolatey, phenolic. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. Very tasty. A bit thin bodied for a porter, but I will buy this again.

Roasted malt aroma, but not really all that strong of an aroma. Black with a medium brown head. The palate is full. Taste is mostly bitter chocolate and roasted malt.

20030bottle. Dark, dark brown and opaque in color with a very full and creamy,almost fluffy, head that lasts with a dark beige color and minimal lacing; head looks like a rootbeer float. Nose is a little weak but not unpleasant; notes of butter and chocolate with some fruitiness and a rootbeer-like smell. Taste is curious, not like other strong, dark ales; dark chocolate, burnt toast, dark cocoa, a curius sour note, some lightly roasted coffee notes, and a moderate bitterness. Palate is medium, soft, and creamy, almost dry. Finishes with earthy hops, burnt chocolate, and mostly dry. Some excellent qualities but some abstract ones as well. Very easy drinking and a little scary at 7.2%.

Bottle. On the label it said Sinebrychoff, not Koff. Pours black with thick dark, brown head. Roasted, Coffee and chocolate. Not too sweet, a nice porter.

Aroma is of sweet milk chocolate.Pours dark black with huge tan head.Has a nice balance of chocolate and hops.Medium to thin mouthfeel with some noticable hops in the finish.

Pours opaque black with thick dark, brown head. The aroma is almost vinous - malts and chocolate, molasses and dark fruit. The flavor starts with lots of bitter cocoa and burnt toast. The subtle sweetness of the malts transition to more chocolate and some hop flavor. The finish has some hops and some fruit - and lots of chocolate. The mouthfeel is quite thick and full-bodied - but smooth and creamy thanks to the carbonation.

Winter and cold weather are the friends of this dark and tasteful beer. Try this 50/50 Koff porter/light lager(any) and you will find something very special enjoyable year-round.