Baltic Porter
Five Points Brewing Company in Hackney, Greater London, England 🏴
Collab with: YellowBelly Beer (Ireland)Porter - Baltic Special
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7.42
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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.
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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8/10
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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
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jun 2018
at 16:40
Lci from london
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jun 2018
at 15:45
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap @ Founders Festival (Madrid).
Back color, off-white head. Aroma is roasty, licorice. Flavor with notes of roasted malts, coffee beans and licorice. Dense mouthfeel.
Back color, off-white head. Aroma is roasty, licorice. Flavor with notes of roasted malts, coffee beans and licorice. Dense mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2018
at 22:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap. @Founders Madrid Beer & Music Fest 03/06/2018
Color negro corona de espuma beige, aromas torrefactos cafe, sabor cafe notas torrefactas cuerpo medio,
Color negro corona de espuma beige, aromas torrefactos cafe, sabor cafe notas torrefactas cuerpo medio,
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2018
at 11:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Great Grog. Black body with a thin beige head. Faint lacing. Aroma of of nuts, red wine and cocoa. Flavour of chocolate, wood, peppery spice, raisin and cherry. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. This is delicious.
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2018
at 21:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Park Fever, Hither Green. Black pour with a tan head. Lots of coffee in the nose, smoky malt, dark chocolate, liquorice and toffee too. Flavours of dark chocolate, oodles more coffee, raisin, liquorice, whisper of smoke. Sweet coffee linger in the finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2018
at 12:08
8/10
Tried
on 07 May 2018
at 16:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at the Euston tap. A mahogany brown reddy coloured pour with a lasting G kid tan head. Aroma is rich toasted nuts, cakey, some dried fruits, little tang. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, rich cakey malts, tangy dried fruit, burnt cake, hint of vanilla. Palate is medium full, sticky, moderate carbonation. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 May 2018
at 18:57