Victory Red Thunder

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Appearance: Pours amber brown with a small tan ring around the top.

Aroma: Chocolate covered raisin and red wine barrel/red wine soaked cork.

Taste: Tossty chocolate malt, red wine barrel, tannins, a touch of tartness in the chocolaty finish.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied. Soft carbonation.

Overall: Very delicious. Great balance of malt,wood,wine and tartness.

Dark brown with cream beige head (barrel-aged) / Musty, dry nose of cocoa, roast barley, grass and cream / Medium body, creamy, acidic, good balance with lots of astringency and bitter finish / Subdued flavors of cocoa, dark roast coffee, roast grain, prune, licorice, and oak / No fireworks, and could use a little more "fruit" punch, especially for a Baltic, but a solid brew all around.

Pours reddish brown, with a tan head. Aroma is fruit, red wine, and a little wood. Flavor is fruit and red wine. Dry and tannic. Medium to light body. I wouldn’t have guessed the base was a baltic porter.

Pours a red-brown with medium tan head. Aroma of cocoa, cherry, blackberry. Dry chocolate, coffee malt flavor with a fruity grape mildly sour tang. Fairly quick finish with a hint of hops.

750ml bottle shared by Doug
Appearance: Clear dark mahogany with a small tan head and good lacing
Aroma: Smokey, toasted malts and chocolate
Taste: Roasted malts, chocolate, smokey and woody
Nice

Brown, clear, off-white head. Aroma: bread crusts, melanoidins, biscuit, a light rotten fruit note, some red wine barrel. Flavor: toffee, light baker's chocolate, bread crusts, light toast, a little fruit. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Transparent brown pour with a ruby hue and tan head. The cocoa comes through the strongest of the aromas, a little oak and fruity as well. Wow, I didn’t get a lot of the red wine in the aroma (could be because I am getting over a cold) but it is the highlight of the flavor. The initial flavor is the cocoa and roasted malts but the finish is all red wine, fruity and pungent with the typical tannin astringency. I thought this was an interesting, and welcomed, sibling of the Baltic Thunder.

Aroma of cocoa, oak and tangy raisin. Pours deep brown with medium froth. Taste opens with the oak tang and finishes with a good smokey malt. The tastes muddle in the middle. The oak works, the wine doesn’t quite.

Bottle. Poured black with a thin tan head. Aroma was a classic Baltic porter with some cocoa coming through and the taste was of a mellowed porter but then it had a nice wine finish to it that really added a very welcomed unusual touch.

Pours dark ruby with a big off white head. Aroma is very oaky. Taste opens with some tannic flavors that fade to roasted malt and finish with a chocolate sweetness. Medium mouth feel. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone