Neuzeller Porter

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle
Style: Baltic Porter
Neuzelle, Germany

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

Poured a decent head but didn’t hang around on a black body. Aroma is milky coffee, roasted notes and hints of chocolate. The chocolate comes through more in the taste not overly so, liquorice, slightly warming alcohol and light grains.

Bottle at Wildeman. Black body with thin, brown head. Smoky nose. Taste is also quite smoky. Very sweet too, with caramel notes. Syrupy texture. Quite enjoyable.

The tag line on the bottle translates to something like "Truly strong, truly German," which is weird since this is a non-German style. Black w/ almost no head. Sweet raisins and nutty sherry-like malts dominate the nose. Flavor is lighter but generally similar and very lightly tart. Medium to full bodied and rather flat on the palate. Not a bad Baltic porter but the overall flatness of it takes away from the impression of it a great bit. I’m not sure if it’s time on the shelves or a brewing/packaging problem that caused this but one way or the other the beer I drank simply wasn’t all that good. Still a nice nose though.

50 cl bottle from De Bierkoning. Almost black color, nice off white head. Aroma of sweet roasted malt, a little smoke and a little fruit (raisin?). Flavor is sweet malty, with a hint of banana. Throatwarming, even though it’s not that strong. Roastiness stays throughout, and there’s some fruit (blueberries?) in the aftertaste. Good and unmistakably German.

brown, smooth brown head. faint aroma, roasted grains, faint hops. aroma like a dark beer, but faint and dry. flavor is swet licorice, roasted grains, dark chocolate, faint dark caramel, sugar. very strong taste compared to the aroma. some bitter notes too. aftertaste is licorice and roasted grains. A rather typical porter, with more flavor than usual, especially the licorice and the bitter notes from roasted grains are prominent.

Bottled@Björntasting. Extremely dark rubyish black colour with mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is ashes, fruits, smoked wet wood and some dark fruits as well. Flavour is rather similar. Well done Porter from Germany.

Bottled. Very dark brown, creamy beige head. Licorice aroma. Sweet with bread, licorice and coffee. Above medium bodied with dense mouthfeel. Warming chocolate sauce finish with some salty bitterness.

50cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Black colour, light beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, bready malts, ryebread, coffee, some charcoal. Flavour is roasted and sweet bready malts, rye, coffee, coffee bitter finish with some malty sweetness. Definitely different from other porters I’ve had, really nice and tasty.