Tap at CBF '19. Brown pour, beige head. Nose is low caramel, chocolate. Taste is caramelized sugar, milk chocolate, some cocoa powder. Light body, soft carbonation. The caramel is pretty subtle in it, and the salt is nowhere to be found.

Bottle from Pub-up-beershop, Wolvega. Aroma is sweet brown malt with caramel, touch of toffee, milk chocolate, and soft roast. Flavour is medium sweet and light bitter. Medium body. Not salty, simply a good Porter.

0,33l bottle at home bought from Grillamt.com. BB 17.06.2020. dark brown color, small tan head. smells soy sauce, peppery, spices, some caramel, nutty, marzipan. full body, soft carbonation. tastes earthy, peppery, bit roasty, ashy, caramel, peppery, nutty, hints of salt, coffee, hints of soy sauce. finishes bit dry and lightly roasty bitter with notes of caramel, ash and peppery notes. good to drink, was not expecting much, since this was close to BB, but drinks actually very nice.

Porter flavoured with salted caramel, from one of Austria's more prominent craft breweries. Violent gusher, spouting out of the bottle during opening - I didn't see that coming and I do not see anyone else complaining about it below, so I guess I just have bad luck... A thick and foamy, mocha-beige, very bubbly, loudly crackling head forms during pouring, but it fizzes away in seconds into practically nothing, like the foam on a glass of coke; very dark chocolate brown robe, near black, hazy with wine red edges. Aroma of indeed caramel and (sea) salt, strong salmiak, bitter black chocolate, liquorice (and even 'dropveters'), blackberries, wet leather, soggy brown bread, raisins soaked in 'jenever', sweet sherry, fresh bay leaf, more subtle hints of marmite, dried out bladderwort, pipe tobacco, pear, medlar, melting brown sugar, black olives, sweet cicely, elderberry wine, quince jam, even a vague touch of strawberry. Sweetish onset, candied figs, raisins, medlar, with a touch of beef broth-like umami and a slight sourish blackberry-like undertone, but most of all a clear salty element at the sides; finely tingling, in fact relatively sharp carbonation (especially for the style), adding minerally effects. Caramelly and chocolatey middle with a brown-bready core, while this added salted caramel manifests itself not just as a salty side note that accompanies a generally sweetish profile, but also as an aromatic retronasal element reminiscent of salmiak, liquorice and sweet cicely, while below, a roasty bitter, only slightly coffeeish flavour develops. Smooth-edged, a bit glueish even, but somehow feeling a tad on the thin side too, even for a 5.6% ABV porter; herbal hop bitterness accentuates the roasty bitter accent in the finish, while this salted caramel flavour and aroma lingers on. Something went wrong in the carbon dioxide department here, but I have to admit that the basic flavour profile here has nothing off-putting to it at all - on the contrary, the liquorice and sweet cicely aromas provided by the 'extra' ingredient make this beer all the more interesting. In terms of maltiness, yeastiness, colour, mouthfeel and so on, it indeed qualifies as a very typical brown porter, at least in the modern sense of the word - just too bad for the gushing, overcarbonation and total lack of head retention, so I cannot but take points off for that.

Draught at CBF Wien. Dark brown body, with a medium, creamy, dark beige head. Aroma of coffee, toffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, liquorice, some soy sauce. Tastes quite similar, with more soy sauce, some tobacco. Medium, velvety mouthfeel, with a low carbonation. Finishes roasty, medium dry, with cocoa, soy sauce, toffee, coffee. Very nice. Pretty robust, with diverse roasty notes, not much sweetness. The mouthfeel is really interesting, velvety, almost powdery. Great, characterful Porter. Score: 8 / 4 / 8 / 4 / 15