Aphotic Baltic Porter 2011
High Water Brewing in Lodi, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Baltic Regular|
Score
7.59
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft @ Hamiltons, San Diego, CA. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma with woody hints. Roasted malty woody licorice flavor. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate and licorice finish.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap. Pours opaque black with a large brown creamy head and nice lacing. Aroma is mostly coffee and cigarettes. Flavor is the same, with notes of chocolate, wood and oranges. Medium sweet, light coffee bitterness growing to medium in the finish. Burned notes in the finish. Full body, lightly creamy, well masked ABV.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bomber courtesy of Marsiblursi. Pours black with a dark chocolate mocha head that leaves some thick lacing on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sweet, malty and full bodied with roasted malts, sweet dark bread, resinous wood, sweet liquorice candy, moist soil, vanilla, toffee, pine, black pepper, dark quality chocolate, brown sugar, slightly dry grass and hints of dark roast coffee and alcohol. Taste is slightly sweet, bitter and malty with roasted malts, resinous wood, pumpernickel, liquorice root, moist soil, anise seed, minerals, vanilla fudge, bitter cocoa powder, dark roast coffee, lemon zest and hints of prunes. Mouthfeel is smooth, silky, round, rich, tiny dry and medium bodied. Finish is bitter, tiny sour and malty with pumpernickel, roasted malts, cocoa powder, minerals, dark roast coffee, anise seed, resinous wood and hints of lemon peal. Smooth and incredibly rich. A nice surprise...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice thick tan head - about three centimetres tall. Aroma of cream, alcohol, nuts, earth, prunes, cherries and a good amount of caramel and other sugars.Full-bodied; Strong oatmeal flavour at first with a touch of smoked peat, some cherries and tart flavours next followed by a lot of cream and then some tobacco notes with a lot of alcohol warmth at the end. Aftertaste is also quite complex with some oak dryness, some pungent pit fruits and a very strong and malty finish with tons of alcohol. Overall, a nice and super complex beer that shows off the style well with the extra complexity of the oak aging. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Healthy Spirits in San Francisco, California on 05-March-2012 for US$8.99 sampled at home in Washington on 28-May-2012 in honour of Memorial Day.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dirty yellow-beige head over black beer. Bourbon-barrels, vanilla oak obvious, sweet and lactic, but not sour - lactose? Sharpish alcohol flavour, bitter chocolate, bit smoked, vanilla and the rest of the oakflavours. Sharpish, alcoholburn, pretty viscous and smooth. Too little porter, too much barrel aging, IMO.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22oz bomber pours deep darkness with tall firm mocha like head of foam. The aroma offers up pretty rich bites of dark roasted malts, burnt malts, toffee and dark roasted coffee. The taste is very imperial stout like with rich dark roasted malts to burnt malts, chocolate brownie and dark roasted coffee. To midway a brief yet somewhat firm sweet dark fruity ester note is noticed in the form of faint blueberry notes that are quickly smashed by burnt malts and dark roasted maltiness and dark roasted coffee. I’m not sure how this is a Baltic Porter but it is a damn nice Imperial Stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bomber thanks to Robert. Pours a pure jet black color with a medium brown head. A slightly sour oaky and rich roasted malt nose, something akin to blackberries. The flavor is superb; rich roast and coffee, more lingering sourness that is rich in line with oak and tannins, lots of metal which often mirrors sourness, lingering black licorice and coffee. Big on the oak with the power to balance it out. Very tasty. In fact, this reminds me a lot of Duck Rabbit’s Baltic Porter, both have sour components. Damn good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at Monk’s Kettle, SF. It pours opaque black, with a thick tan head. The nose is tangy, coconut, vanilla, smoke, over-ripe pineapple and some meat. The taste is roasted malt, tang, caramel, burnt malt, smoke, liquorice, coffee, charcoal, wood, vanilla, fruit (more dried pineapple) and earth, with a dry finish. Full body and moderate carbonation. Well balanced and flavoursome.
bb (18428) reviewed Aphotic Baltic Porter 2011 from High Water Brewing 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Dark mahogony beer with a brown head. Vanilla and light bourbon aroma. Vanilla and toffee flavor with earth and light fruitiness. Medium-plus bodied. Vanilla and earth lingers with toffee and very light roastiness.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Rating 10 seals the deal. Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe in Davis, CA. Pours very dark brown/lack with a 3 finger dark tan head. Aroma is chocolate with a hint of anise. Near full bodied. Flavor is chocolate for start, then a dose of anise appears. It seems to have oak astringency, and maybe a little vanilla. With time anise seems to override the chocolate. Amazing stuff.