Five Points Brewing Company Baltic Porter

Baltic Porter

 

Five Points Brewing Company in Hackney, Greater London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: YellowBelly Beer (Ireland)
  Porter - Baltic Special
Score
7.35
ABV: 8.4% IBU: - Ticks: 18
Brewed in collaboration with Ireland’s YellowBelly to celebrate our fifth birthday, Five Years of Five Points.

YellowBelly are renowned over in the Emerald Isle for their innovative and bold brews. In addition to their lovely, warm welcome to our launch in Ireland and a friendship going back years, our shared passion for darker beers prompted us to design and brew a Porter. Having made several variations of porter ourselves, we wanted to do something a little different.

In our Baltic Porter, we used a cold-fermenting lager yeast strain with a clean, subtle flavour profile to allow all those stewed and roast roasted malts (all 10 of them) to shine.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home in Hackney - picked up at some bottle shop around London, just can't recall which. Pours deep brown with a creamy tan head. Not bad, has some leathery and vaguely tangy dark fruits, soft roast, a little earthy bitterness, baking cocoa. Medium to full bodied, lightly oily, with fine carbonation. Lightly warming finish, some sticky burnt sugars, more mellow roast and bitter chocolate. Quite nice.

Tried from Can on 02 Jan 2019 at 23:22


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at Hop Stuff Tap room Ashford. Black beer lasting tan head. Big boozy dark chocolate aroma. Coffee flavour. A lot smoother in the mouth than aroma would suggest. Hides abv well in mouth and swallow. You could get very drunk on this dark chocolate espresso coffee beer. Drinkability of a lager flavours of a tring porter. Lovely

Tried from Draft on 12 Dec 2018 at 18:50


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

16th July 2018
Craft TCR bottleshare. Thanks to Cloin for the can. Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft airy dark malts, good fluffy dark chocolate. Plenty of earthy coffee and a little fruity coffee. Semi dry finish. Nicely coffee but light and not overpowering.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2018 at 08:24


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can thanks to Colin, shared at Craft CG. It pours dark brown - black with a sturdy tan head. The aroma is rich roasted malt, bitter - sweet, umami, liquorice, charred wood, cocoa and dark fruits. The taste is dry, bitter  sweet, tangy dark fruits,  blackberry, sticky, oily, surgary, wood, spice, liquorice and tar with a umami finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Not bad at all.

Tried from Can on 22 Aug 2018 at 10:03


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Creamy beige head stayed on a jet black still body. Burnt tastes of nut, coffee & dark chocolate. Medium bodied, prickly on the tongue with a clean finish. Burnt coffee, dark chocolate, roasted & dark berry tastes with a tangy finish.

Tried on 24 Jul 2018 at 21:37


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can split at CBC tasting, acquired online, 16/07/18. Black with a well presented tan cap. Nose is dark malts, roasted notes, earthy dark fruits, charr, spice. Taste comprises mellow roast, liquorice, bitter sweet brown sugar, toffee, dried fruits. Medium plus body, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light kiss of alcohol. Ok.

Tried from Can on 18 Jul 2018 at 15:36


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from Honest Brew. Jet black colour with a dark tan head. Roasted malty aroma with chocolate and coffee. Taste roasted bitter. Full rich body.

Tried from Can on 15 Jul 2018 at 17:10


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Tap @Luppolo Station in Rome. Black pour with an enormous rich brownish head. Nose: burnt/smoky aroma, loads of licorice , ashes and dustiness. Mouth: ouh! Marvelous! Complexity of cocoa, sweet feel of a complex stout, sweet...yes but so English. Long mouthfeel, complex, fresh roast...yes that kind of roast you drink easy. Lovely.

Tried from Draft on 07 Jul 2018 at 22:51


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, light smoke, taste is sweet, sugary, liquorice, roasted.

Tried from Can on 06 Jul 2018 at 07:43


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

440ml can. Opaque, darkest brown colour with average, thick, firm, frothy to creamy, slowly osteoporosing, moderately lacing, beige to tan head. Sweet-ish, roasty, chocolately, dark malty aroma, Notes of cocoa, milk chocolate, nut chocolate, hints of pumpernickel, treacle, a touch of liquorice. Taste is sweet-ish, roasty chocolately, dark malty, notes of cocoa, milk chocolate, hints of roasted nuts, treacle, pumpernickel, a minimally bloody and metallic touch of rust, some salty liquorice, bitter hoppy counterweight, blueberry and cherry overtones. Full body, creamy texture, smooth and soft palate; lingering roasty, sweet and bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 04 Jul 2018 at 20:04