L'Amère à Boire Cosaque
Brasserie Artisanale L'Amère à Boire in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
6.85
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at the brewpub during Le Mondiale week.
Don’t see this one on tap very often!
Big aroma of roasted malts, but they were quite sweet, with touches of soy. Some lacticness in the flavor was brought on by more sweet roasty malts, touches of coffee in the finish, medium dry bitter finish, quite nice!
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Café, chocolat, léger alcool et noisettes composent un olfactif faible en puissance. Une mousse très effervescente ne se maintient pas du tout sur le liquide noir, assez opaque, laissant passer quelques reflets roux. L'entrée de bouche est crémeuse, chocolatée, laissant passer quelques fruits noirs et se déclinant en une finale sucrée et légèrement épicée. De subtiles notes de noisettes, de mélasse, viennent rajouter quelques éléments de complexité, mais dans l'ensemble ça reste plutôt unidimensionnel vers le chocolat. J'aurais apprécié une plus ample présence des éléments de torréfaction. Le corps est un peu trop crémeux pour le style. L'emphase est mise sur le chocolat sucré tout en demeurant assez gouteuse. O:5.05 V:1.9 G:8.4 C2.85 O:14.8 T:33.0
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can: Poured a black color porter with a large brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of roasted malt notes with some nice black cholate notes is enticing. Taste is a great mix of nice black chocolate notes with some roasted malt with light residual sugar notes with a super smooth finish. Body is about average with good carbonation. Solid take on the style with such a great finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dégustée en fût sur place. De couleur brune foncée et quasi-opaque. Nez de chocolat noir doux, de malt rôti, léger de mélasse, avec des notes de réglisse noire, de café, de noix et de fruits sucrés (raisins vineux, notes de prunes et de cerises noire). Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement bas-moyen et une texture légèrement crémeuse. Goût légèrement fruité (notes de raisins et de prunes) avec des petites notes de réglisse noire lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût de malt rôti doux, léger de chocolat noir et de café avec un petit arrière-goût de mélasse et de toffee sucré puis en finale l’on retrouve des notes d’alcool doux ainsi que des notes sèches de noix. Post-goût long, moyennement amer de rôti doux, de café et de chocolat noir avec de petites notes d’alcool et de fruits (moût de raisins et de cerises). (été 2006)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On draught at the brewpub, March 2005. Brownish-black body, my sample being not completely opaque, and having dark garnet highlights on the edges, with large bubbles rising and a fizzy beige head, mostly disipating. Aroma of dark berries, vinous notes, raisins, balsamic vinegar. All in all a definite bockiness as tiggmtl points out. The flavor, also bocky, is full of dark fruits, plums, light chocolate, a touch of oily roast and a bit of sugar. I swear I tasted grapes in there and the body was certainly nothing to write home about. I will say that I didnt taste the alcohol and it didnt have any highly bitter hops notes. Rather attenuated though. Maybe I just havent sampled the right Baltic porters, but it’s a far cry from Sinebrychoff or Zywiec or, dare I say, Barley John’s Dark Knight. Probably more traditional, but regardless, it was way too watery. Didnt seem like there was enough there. Ok, rant over, I’m putting this very high on my list of beers that I need to rerate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled draught at the brewpub.
Very dark brown, small head. Roasty aroma with some raisins. Fairly sweet and medium bodied with notes of licorice and syrup. Salty bitter finish. In the lighter end of the spectrum for Baltic porters.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Translucent dark beer with malt and licorice on the nose. Sweet choclate moka tatse, with very german style hops (dry). Good body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Smooth, toasty, chocolatey, well-balanced. Also had a slightly minty aroma.