Lvivske Porter

Brewed by Lvivska Pivovarnya (Carlsberg)
Style: Baltic Porter
Lviv, Ukraine

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

Bought in Polish supermarket . Aroma: caramel, chocolate, red fruits (maybe cherries). Dark brown color, big fast fading head. Taste: light sweetness, medium body, nice bitterness form roasted malt, not too sweet texture creamy, long - bitter finish, soft carbonation. Good beer but this is very light version of balitic porter beer.

From my friend Natasha who brought it from Russia: Pours a sort of reddish brown color with a small tan head. Aroma is slightly fruity and slightly malty. Really easy to drink for any beer and especially for a porter. Other than that it is a little sweet, but has a nice slightly bitter finish. A weird sort of fruitiness pervades in this beer. Alcohol is well-covered up. I might be biased, but I thought it was pretty good. I am surprised to see all the very negative reviews. Perhaps they are old bottles?

Mahognyfärgad öl med ganska kraftigt beige skum. Maltig, vinös med russin i doften. Ganska söt med viss rostad bitterhet. Aningar av kaffe och lakrits.

Boytle at Pigs Ear 2011. deep ruby beer. Thin beige head. Raisin on aroma. Quite rich. Bit if dirty raisin. Unsubtle alcohol burn on finish. not a huge amount to the body. I like the aroma. Body fades and then rawish alcohol. Sting on finish

Bottle from Presporska pivoteka, Bratislava. Dark red brown color with a large, frothy beige head. Aroma of coffee, caramel, roasted malt. Taste, roasted malt, prunes, coffee, wood in background. Nice long bitter finish. Good.

A: The pour is more of a dark amber color, with a decent sized khaki head. S: Smells oddly vinous with a lot of grape aroma. A bit of rubbing alcohol, too. Lightly metallic with some feet and prune juice. Just a bit of sweet bready malt. T: Cloyingly sweet with lots of caramel, prunes, and cheap wine. Very metallic with just a light bitterness of roasted grain. A bit of cardboard flavor with a hint of smoke and chocolate. M: Medium bodied with a medium carbonation. O: Simply bad. Not worth drinking again.

Rating #623, bottle at Øst-ølsmagning

Surprisingly light brown porter with only a bit of a head that never develops. Aroma is coffee, vague liqourice, and of course a load of alcohol as in any other ukrainian beer. Flavor of coffee, liqourice, alcohol. This is extremely alcoholic and not a good porter at all. The bitterness in the finish is hard to rate as the flavours are totally drowning in the overshadowing alcohol. Not only a sturdy palate in this one. I actually looked forward to it, but that was a mistake as this is probably the worst baltic porter I’ve had.

Perfectly classic Baltic Porter; intensely sweet-sour winey in the nose and in the flavor. Such a fermented raisin taste, but thinner than in an Abt and not plummy. Very drinkable, nice palate conditioning. Bottle at Degustatornia, Gdansk location.