Ølfabrikken Porter

Formerly brewed at Bryggeriet Ølfabrikken (Gourmetbryggeriet - Harboe)
Style: Baltic Porter
Roskilde, Denmark

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Huge nose of chocolate, molasses, smoke, malts, sweetness. Pitch black with a blood red head. One of the best looking beers ever. Medium body, well balanced. Huge chocolate tastes with modest alcohol and burn, some raisins or honey in there. Finishes with smoke. All the flavors, you can taste them change on your palate. Awesome porter. Seriously one of the best.

Bottle from biggcb. Deep charcoal brown body, medium-thick ochre head, nice lacing. Aroma of rich, roasted, charred malts, chocolate, licorice, and molasses. Incredibly silky, inky, oily body that coats the palate with rich roasted malts, charred brown sugar, chocolate, molasses, coffee, and hints of soy. Alcohol content is just high enough to add some punch to the mouthfeel. The complexity and texture of this beer is incredible. Could have been called an Imperial Stout. Absolutely fantastic, a new Top 10 beer for me!

Bottle from Bert. Ive wanted to try this one for a while, and since it finally has hit the states, I got my chance. Let me also explain that I do like my porters in a shaker / pint glass...this is not a beer for that kind of glass, do not make the same "mistake" I did. Pours out a dark black color with a brown head on it. Smell is full of roasted and coffee and chocoalte flavors. A light fruity smell is noted as well. Taste is super thick, rich, and basically the equivilent of drinking motor oil. It is full of chocolate and coffee flavors. God, this is such a good beer. Is it a porter? I dont really know about all that. Shit, this should be a new style of beer. I do know that any future bottles I have of this will be drank from a snifter. Took me about an hour to drink the 500ml bottle. Great beer, but not what I was expecting of a porter. Reminds me of the Barley Johns Dark Knight Returns, only thicker. I can still taste this thing, 10 hours after I drank it. Thanks for this one Bert.

After having sampled Norwegian beers for the past few reviews, I figured it was time to open the Danish beer. Like the other beers the Ølfabrikken Porter was also picked up from Green’s. This one looked impressive when poured, not for the darkness of the body, which was deep brown, but the head, which looked like whipped up chocolate. The smell was mostly chocolate and coffee, but it also had a lingering plummy quality. Taste was kick ass roasty, as the chocolate malt was quite powerfully utilized. There were also a lot of vinous dry fruits and powdered cocoa flavors packed in each sip. Just brimming with flavors, this was quite a robust drink. Thick, chewy, sticky body and a brown sugar aftertaste. Just wowed me on all fronts. Superlative.

UPDATED: JAN 25, 2006 Draught. Black with a baige head. Roasted light smoked malty, coffee, chocolat aroma and a full creamy roasted, light smoked malty, coffee, chocolat taste. Full body and a bitter dry light smoked finish. Just Great !!! 8-5-9-5-19 Bottle. Pretty much the same, just not as full and a bit thiner at all. 8-5-8-4-17

Bottle @ Ölbutikken. Black with cappuccino head. Full body coffe chocolate roasted malt little smoke sweet. Lovely porter

22oz poured super dark brown/black. Thin dark tan head. Aroma is wonderful, butter, sweet chocolate, coffee, can smell it 5 feet away. Flavor was rich, a bit smokey, goes perfect with some gouda cheese, lots of roasty malt, coffee, a very good porter. Mouthfeel was smooth in the beginning, but had a bite toward the end. I will skip on this next time and go with a Fullers.

Incredibly dark brown head settles to a thick, creamy film over an equally impressively dark and dense inky black/brown body. Looks and smells luscious. Aroma is powerful in sweetness and alcohol. Rich chocolate syrup, thick cookie-like malt, green-wood smokiness and hints of dark fruit drowned in a potent punch of Malibu rum. Thick on the palate, soothing on the throat, ending with a slight chalkiness. Wonderful full flavor, intensely chocolatey but not overly sweet... and the alcohol is not as overbearing as I’d expected by the nose. A pleasant burnt bitterness of well-roasted malt reveals in the finish, and the finish lasts a long time. As my glass slowly empties, I detect a slight taste of pencil shavings but that’s really the only thing that detracts from a simply incredible beer. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Cellared for about 2 years, purchased at West Lakeview Liquors, Chicago, IL.

Very intense expresso,dark chcolate taste and aroma.Super dark brown head,with just the right carbonation. A true benchmark for this style!

500 ml bottle thanks to Bager during a face to face trade that turned out to be quite a fun day. Darkest pour with a small but retaining tan head. Lasted the whole glass and left nice liacing. Aromas of dark chocolate and roastiness. Flavors of burnt malts and more chocolate. Bitterness in the middle was semi-sweet chcolate and some pineyness. Very nice Beer. Thanks Lars