Utenos Porter

Brewed by Utenos (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg)
Style: Baltic Porter
Utena, Lithuania

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

Bottle. Dark red-brown with a nice fast-disappearing bubbly beige head. Sweet malty aroma with a hint of alcohol and some chocolate. Sweetness, liquorice, coffee, chocolate and dark fruits in the taste. Quite a dry finish.

A red-brown beer wit a disappearing brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of berries, while the flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol and chocolate on a dry background.

(Bottle 50 cl) Dark, orangey brown with a fine, creamy, yellowish head. Aroma of roasted malt. Fairly full body with notes of hard roasted malt, some light caramel and an alcoholic finish. OK as such, but really just a strong Dunkel. 280706

50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown/deep amber with a dense orange/tan head. Aroma is malty and dried fruity. Flavour holds a chocolate to a roasted malt base. Lingering fruity note on top. Ends with a smooth chocolate and light acidic note into the finish.

Dark red-brown. Fruity and malty. A good example of bottom fermented Baltic Style Porter. Less overwhelming and alcoholic than some Polish porters.

Bottled. Darkish ruby red colour, big beige creamy head. Aroma of plums, syrup and caramel. Some weak alcohol also noteable. Flavour is smoked caramel malts, with smoke/ashes in the finish and aftertaste. Alcohol completely hidden in the flavour. Once it gets a bit warmer, the flavour get some tarry notes also to the smoke/ashes. Good Baltic porter in my opinion, though the aroma was a bit more like a sweet dunkel. The palate is great, though a bit sticky after a while.

Bottle. Clear brown coloured with a beige head. Light roasted aroma of cocoa and chocolate with notes of caramel and dried fruits. Light roasted flavour with notes of cocoa and dried fruits. A bit watery.

Bottle, 6.8%. Fruity, vinous aroma. Nicely roasted flavour, creamy and vinous. Some port. Barley bitterness, but hidden by alcohol. Could have done with a lot less fruit.