Slottskällans Svart

Brewed by Slottskällans Bryggeri
Style: Porter
Uppsala, Sweden

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Onyx in color with what initially starts out rocky and settles into a mulch colored head. Very nutty, lactosey and cocoa like aromas. The flavors touch on cocoa, with a resiny and smoky mouthfeel. Bitterness hits quick and never truly fades. An excellent porter which seems to be a tad more zesty than Jämtlands Porter.

Go to Drummond Island up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Sit in the dark black rock fields in the winter and breathe the deep evergreen wind. This beer is powerful with northwoods bark, campfire smoke, a bit of citrus rind - the dry intensity of a night of winter camping. It has not the fullest of porter bodies, but the light breath of feeling here announces a northern porter to the world. Reminds me not a little of the Boyne River Brown from my own Michigan woods. Cheers to the Swedes for crafting their own northwoods classic.

Nice roasred aroma. Pours with a nice brown head. The beer is black in the glass. Bitter chocolate and roasred malts in the taste. Great mouth feel.

UPDATED: OCT 29, 2003 Almost black with a big light brownish head. Loads of aromas; coffee, smoke, dried dark fruit and heavily burnt malt. Taste: Is this a porter??? Anyway, it's very dry and bitter all the way through; smoke, tar, dark plums, dark chocolate and very burnt malt tones. Dry finish. Got buy some more.

Very impressive swartzbier, oops, porter. Palate marks down a point for excessive carbonation, but otherwise this is a very very nice beer. Outstanding roastiness, some bitterness, aroma is excellent, head is slight but keeps a nice rim around the glass. But I gotta tell you, I felt like a total carnivore during this session, because I had a huge slab of beef Pot Roast and a gigantic heap of horseradish with this brew after the tasting session, and it was a fucking religious experience. Per, thanks. I live near Bell’s, and you can get Jamtlands and Slottskallans regularly...hmmm, can we switch places for a few weeks?

Very black, very dry. Didn’t like it at all the first time I had it. Tried it a second time and I was hooked! So give it more than one chance.

Beer memories about bottle from Visby Systembolaget year 2000 and draught at SBWF 2003 bottle: color black roasted malts bit coffee and chocolate dryness and aftertaste was astonding astringing dry mouth feel. Matured in the bottle luckily on tap: color black taste roasted malts sweet so sweet no even memories about hops 7-3-7-2-12

Black as h... First the taste of heavily roasted malt, then the more fruity taste. What a porter...

Deep dark purple. Very nice head. Nose was Grapy!!! Oatmeal stout-like. Good burnt profile. Really leans towards a stout for me. Good.

Clearly a superior beer. Starts with a toasted malt nose, dark dark caramel color, big foamy crackling head. Heavy roasted malt body laced with coffee and toffee flavors. Sweet raisiny middle turns to a dry bitter finish that is almost peaty. Lingering bitterness. Could almost pose as a smoke beer with some imagination. Prima beer. Would be great with a chesse plate, for example.