Victory at Sea
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.02
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Imperial Porter with Coffee & Vanilla.
Our Victory at Sea Imperial Porter is a bold, smooth brew with just the right amount of sweetness. We infused this robust porter with whole vanilla beans and San Diego’s own Café Calabria coffee beans. The subtle roasted notes and minimal acidity of the cold brewed coffee, balances perfectly with the sweet caramel undertones of the malt, creating a winning combination for your palate.
Our Victory at Sea Imperial Porter is a bold, smooth brew with just the right amount of sweetness. We infused this robust porter with whole vanilla beans and San Diego’s own Café Calabria coffee beans. The subtle roasted notes and minimal acidity of the cold brewed coffee, balances perfectly with the sweet caramel undertones of the malt, creating a winning combination for your palate.
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8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
KØLF 060315. Black colour with a tan head. Flavour is vanilla, mocha, coffee, alcohol, chocolate, roasted malt, caramel. Full body. Balanced very nice beer.
Tried
on 10 Sep 2015
at 01:19
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
650ml bottle. Pours an opaque, dark brown almost black with a large, frothy, long lasting, light brown head that laces. Strong coffee aroma with roasted malt, vanilla and dark chocolate. Sweet flavour of vanilla, caramel, liquorice and dark chocolate with a bitter coffee finish. Medium to full body with a smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. Excellent. A world class Imperial Porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2015
at 22:44
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
4 oz pour on draft at ChurchKey. Black with tan head. Aromas of coffee, vanilla, milk chocolate. Tastes of coffee, chocolate, vanilla, roast. Full body with a dry finish. Very tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jul 2015
at 00:22
8/10
Tried
on 14 Jul 2015
at 06:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Taster at the brewery. Black color with nice beige head. Coffee chocolate aroma, like I love it. More coffee chocolate in the taste, roasted malts, full taste but stays dry, bitter chocolate/espresso finish. Huge drinkability for this ABV. Just feels a bit too fresh, could be more capturing. With a bit more thickness this would be absolutely over the top. But like this it is already extremely good.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2015
at 22:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Heavy notes of roasted malts, old hops and coffee. A bit too heavy for my liking. Nice thick an smooth texture.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2015
at 16:20
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Quite sweet aroma. Heavy taste of coffee, rosted malts, chocolate and candy sugar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2015
at 17:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Elmanana. Many thanks! Dark brown with brown head. Medium carbonation. Sweet aroma of cocoa, vanilla, roasted malts and coffee. Sweet with bitter finish. Caramel and vanilla. Not bad but not my favorite.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2015
at 12:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 oz. bottle. Pours pitch black, with a big, brown, bubbly head and lots of lacing. The aroma is bitter coffee, a touch of vanilla, a little syrup, and some harsh rye. Sweet flavor, with significant, roasty, unpleasant bitterness. Heavy body, silky, and thick. This is a reasonably tasty porter, but the excessive roast flavors aren’t my thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2015
at 14:03
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draught @ Ginger Man. Inky dark brown with small spongy tan head, coffee beans aroma with a hint of vanilla, low carbonation, complex taste starting vanilla sweet and ending coffee bitter, full body, long bitter finish. Tastes more like a stout.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2015
at 13:33