Victory Baltic Thunder

Light brown head forms over the not quite black, but very dark body. Strong espresso aroma, along with some fruitiness and a discernible sweetness. Taste is sweet and malty. Tons of espresso and chocolate. Caramel is in there too. Body was thinner than many other big beers, like the previous reviewer noted, but the taste was certainly not and it coated your mouth with a delicious syrupy aftertaste.

22 oz bottle, pours dark brown with a small tan head. Array of aromas, roasted malts, molasses, dark fruits and a hint of alcohol. Nice well balanced flavor of the high malt content and the sweet dark fruit flavor. The alcohol is well hidden, but the body is a little thin for such a big beer.

Poured a rich looking black hue with a thick tan head which faded to a small coating. A nice rich coffee like aroma. Flavor seemed to be heavily roasted with some sweetness to it. Finish was dry. Mediocre palate was the only thing keeping this beer down.

The aroma is dark fruit, alcohol, dust, dirt/earth and roasted grains. The body is deep black and holds a wispy tan head. The fore is dark chocolate, dry roasted malt and sweet cream. It then goes earthy/dusty/dirty before offering a bit of dark fruit sweetness. It doesn’t remind me a lot of the Perkunos Hammer. It’s dryer than I remember the Hammer being and while I get some dark fruit sweetness this is much more dry and earthy tasting.

Slightly disappointing! Too bad given the outright whoring of Perkuno done on the label and description. Heavyweight’s porter was sublime, this one, well, not as much. It is heavy, but bludgeoning when some finesse would do better. Overwhelming caramel toast aftertaste eliminates the nice bittering alcoholic elements that were suggested in the tempting nose.