3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Utenos Porteris Pasterizoutas. Bottle. Pitch black colour with a nice big long lasting light brown head. Aroma of toasted malts, caramel and fruits. Great smooth bitter-sweet chocolate flavour, coffee, prunes and bit alcohol. Dry finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. Pours a hazy reddish brown with a massive fluffy off-white head. Caramel aroma with some prune behind it. Medium body and light carbonation. The taste has caramel, fruit and nuts with a dry and somewhat grainy finish,
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
From a 500 ml. bottle with no freshness date.
Poured a reddish caramel brown with a foamy, bubbly topped tan head that quickly settled into a thin lacing.
Aromas of caramel malts and lightly roasted nuts, brown sugar and raisin bread, a bit herbal.
Good, even, medium carbonation and a crisp, slightly slick, velvety smooth light bodied mouthfeel, lighter than the norm for porters, but still pleasant.
Nice pleasant tasting, caramel, cocoa with some metallic edges, grain bready, a soft plum fruitiness, a subtle herbal bitterness, a light solvent alcohol flavor towards the end, and a dry sweet caramel malty finish with a lightly lingering malty metallic.
A decent Baltic porter, easy, smooth drinkability, a little different from many of your Baltic porters, but a welcome change of pace.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle: pretty good beer, medium bodied and a bit oily, fruity, malty, cocca, some caramel sweetness, some coffee, molasses and roasted bitterness, the alcohol is a bit too noticable. i pretty enjoyed this one.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Cocoa, brown sugar, and molasses aromas. Opaque brown with small head. Sweet caramelized sugar malt flavor with very nice peanut brittle/hard toffee aftertaste.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Big creamy offwhite head with a rash of larger bubbles in the middle. Dark red, translucent body, rather like red wine. Sweetish, faintly earthy, milky caramel aroma with lightly grassy hop aroma. Harmonic. Sweet chocolatey licorice taste with milky cinnamon notes. Bitterish aftertaste with grassy notes. Extremely smooth, but a bit cloying. Quite nice. (0.5l bottle.)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Nice big head with ok duration. Color is dark ruby. Aroma is licorice and roast malt. Taste is roast malt with some caramel and licorice.
3.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle, 500ml. A dark red/brown colour with an average-size brown head. Aroma is chocolate, malt and fruit: cherry, peach, plum? Taste is very sweet (but not overly so) with chocolate, caramel, plenty of malt and spice: cinnamon/clove. A moderately bitter finish with citrus. Really tasty.
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