Baltic Porter - Frambuesa & Pistachos

Panda thanks to SaltyGrog: Poured a marble brown with beige head. Aroma is raspberry, fruity, jammy. Taste is malty, fruity, raspberry, nutty, carbonated, finish is less than desirable for me.

Panda, courtesy of SaltyGrog, pours with a mahogany colored body that supports a nice tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a bit of musty hot plums and dates and then kind of mineral like as well as a hit of marzipan near the end of the draw. The taste delivers some odd mustiness that's floral and berry like and then getting into a pleasing molasses like sweetness. Toward the finish it's like sweet slightly earthy dates meet up with a mineral sensation creating an unexpected finish and experience. Not your grandma's Baltic Porter.

Brought home from Beer Cellar Palmero. December fresh. A few months in the fridge. Pint at home once it got quiet. Can says to serve at 6c in a tulip. Cute.

Dirty cola brown, lots of initial sugary cascading head but it dies quick.
Weak coffee roast with a slightly jammy nose.
Thin but gunky feels. Goopy malt & raspberry puree, steel, medicinal bitterness & something husky that adds an itchy texture & could be the pistachio. Final clue adds some stale coffee that sticks on the follow through.

The flavor on this one was very mid without a hearty malt backbone. I thought the coconut one on draft was way better, if not just plain heartier.