Beltza Robust Porter
Baias Garagardotegia in Oiardo, Basque Country, Spain 🇪🇸
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
6.64
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from IV Feria de la Cerveza Artesana de Castilla y León, Lerma. lote 02/2016, best before 06/2017. Unclear brown colour with a thin beige head. Nose is roasted malts, caramel, bit of chocolate, very subtle roastiness. Flavour is light roasted malts, caramel, bit of chocolate and coffee. Very subtle flavours, almost mild-like. Decent porter.
Beer5000 (11421) reviewed Beltza Robust Porter from Baias Garagardotegia 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330 ml bottle labeled 6,8% so I assume this is similar as the 7% version. Unclear dark brown body with a foamy, lacing tan head. Aroma has dark malt, dark chocolate and coffee, not particular strong. Flavor has slightly roasted dark malt, expresso coffee and hint of dark chocolate. There is also a relatively strong bitterness, but not really the fruity kind of hoppy bitterness – it’s more like bitter coffee. Medium body and decent aftertaste. Quite OK but not really impressive. A bit plain in a way, but definitively drinkable with no faults.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
10/11 A 0.33 l bottle brought from Bilbao by Marko’s friend, thanks both of you! I was sure I had this one, since I remembered very well the 5% version so while we enjoyed it nobody even noticed the difference in ABV. The labels are the same just the numbers are different. Anyway, it poured hazy darker brown body with small brown head, just like weaker version. Aroma had lots of caramel and dried fruits as well, along with some coffee which helped it to smell like a real porter. Flavor was even more similar to the one I had, with specific caramel and cocoa building up to coffee and spicy finish. Incredible how I remembered the other Beltza porter vividly and since alcohol was so well hidden there was no way to separate the minute differences. It has been a nice beer and this was probably even more rounded, fuller and more enjoyable.
Marko (22746) reviewed Beltza Robust Porter from Baias Garagardotegia 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Another huge thanks to Ana D for sharing this with heavy and me! After the Petr-A-Porter, this one had to be brilliant to impress. Did it? Hmm... murky dark brown body. Dusty yeasty aroma, coffee, with some sweetness. Dryy taste, coffee & dark chocolate, sweet maltiness. Bitterness up front. Pleasant, complex, slightly sweet, slightly yoghurty and certainly a good beer, just not as brilliant as the other Spanish porter I’d recently had.