Zywiec Porter

Brewed by Bracki Browar Zamkowy (Zywiec Group/Heineken)
Style: Baltic Porter
Cieszyn, Poland

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

Tasted 8/2/10. .5L bottle. Aroma: sweet, very malty, some caramel. Appearance: light brown, ample and sudsy head. Beer itself deep brown in color. Taste: Sweet and malty, certainly, with roasted malt and bitterness at the end. Chocolate and coffee presence. A little too much ETOH comes through. Palate: Not very cloying. Reasonably clean, actually. Full taste. Warming and very fulling (much like an Aventinus). Overall: Certainly a filling beer. I would have enjoyed it more at perhaps 1-1.5% less abv, or perhaps better masked abv.

Bottle courtesy of Dallas at Teresa’s next door. Pours a dark brown body win thin brown head. Aroma is bitter chocolate roast and banana. Mouthfeel is thin and watery, with unpleasant notes of biter roast and banana.

0, 33 L bottle. Black color with medium creamy head. Aroma of roasted malts. Bitter chocolate taste, long bitter aftertaste. Powerful and strong.

In the 500 ml bottle. Pours dark black with a thick creamy beige head. Has a mild roasted coffee aroma with hints of licorice. The flavor pronounces strong alcohol but still supports a solid malt caramel thickness with plenty of roastedness and strong licorice. Fairly smooth and delicious.

Rerating this since my rating seems to have been deleted. Pours a very dark brown color almost black and topped by a small layer of tan colored foam. The foamy head settles quickly leaving a thin film and some sudsy lace behind. The aroma is typical of a baltic porter showing ample amount of caramel malt, figs, raisins, and other dark fruit with a hint of vanilla in there. The flavor follows suit with caramel and chocolate malt forming the base to go with the raisins, dark fruit, and hints of vanilla. There is a hint of roasted bitterness on the back end to balance things out. Medium bodied, smooth on the palate, with moderate carbonation. This is a solid porter.

Pours black with a tan head that holds up well. Slightly amber around the edges when held up to the light. Malty aroma. Dark roasty flavor, bittered nicely. Slight metallic after-taste, maybe result of the old-school grain smoking? Nice lingering roastyness (is that a word?) and alcohol warmth. Overall nice beer, the metallic taste is odd but I’ve gotten used to it and find this a very enjoyable beer.

(bottle) pours a pitch black colour with a slight ruby tinge and a quickly-diminishing light brown head. aroma of dark fruits, most noticeably cherries, some toasted malts and alcohol, with some light notes of char. flavour is a tad musty in the beginning, with lots of toasted malts later on and some surprising notes of banana over a long-lasting roasted-bitter finish. strong-bodied, not too sweet, with smooth carbonation.

Cola colored, a dark brown with minimal head. Very sweet chocolaty nose, roasted nutty palate, also very sweet. Very rich, good, at times seemed a bit thin though.