Cherry Island
Põhjala in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.14
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tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From bottle at Mout Bierfestival Nijmegen 2020. Aroma is roasted malt with cherry, almond, and chocolate. Medium sweet, some roasty bitterness. Medium body, could be a lot thicker. Cherry chocolate, good stuff.
Beer5000 (11295) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Black body under a thin beige head. Aroma has medium roasted, dark malt, dark chocolate, cherry and almond. Taste is medium sweet, dark, smooth roasted malt, dark chocolate, almond and mild, sweet cherry. Alcohol is well hidden, moderate bitterness. Fine body and smooth aftertaste. This was a perfect match to my vanilla ice-cream.
DvdP (5043) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
BD 27072020. Black, bit of light brown foam. Smells sweetish, some random red fruit. Body is thin, but flavours do linger. Tastes roasty with some fruit, almost more strawberry-like than cherry. Little bit of almond memories. Quite weak on all fronts.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From tap at Dok’s Hall 16 in Ghent, a fruit porter by one of eastern Europe’s great stout and porter specialists. Yellowish beige, moussy, opening head, blackish robe with mahogany glow. Aroma of black cherries and candied cherries, blackberry coulis, coffee, fondant chocolate, rainwater, Belgian chocolates, kahlua, even hints of cola and liquorice. Sweet, candyish onset, ‘bonbons’ and candied cherries, blackberry coulis, light minerally carbonation, full and smooth body; toffeeish, pecan-nutty and black-chocolatey malt layers filling the mouth cavity, bittering a bit but the sweetness prevails. Spicy liquorice, vanilla and black pepper hints in the finish, long-lasting malt nuttiness and warming rum-like alcohol – the combination of which again reminds of Belgian chocolates. Fruit stouts and porters can go either the ‘wild’, sour way or the clean, sweet, ‘candy’ way and this one clearly belongs in the latter category without becoming a pastry stout; classically designed fruit stout in that sense, but just as desserty and delicious. Well done for this kind of beer, not lacking in complexity even from tap (I wonder what this tastes like after a few months, cellared in a bottle…).
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
02/VI/21 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent, BE), BB: n/a (2021-440)
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: nice, good roast, bit oxidized, chocolate, coffee, caramel, vanilla. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: rather sweet start, good roast, coffee, dark chocolate, soft acidity, caramel, sugary. Aftertaste: alcohol, little smoky, some overripe fruits, dried fruits, earthy, tobacco, some red forest fruits, soft acidity, lovely beer!
BenL8 (2068) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours black with a small head. Aroma is sour cherries, dark malts with chocolate and coffee, light almond and caramel. Medium to big body. Flavour is rich and sweet, chocolate, lot of almond, light cherry. In the aroma cherry is more dominant, in flavour it is almond. Medium bitterness. Nice! Like the additions here.
DSG (25977) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Lior D's place. Thank Stas. Black. Marzipan, cherry liqueur, some chocolate, licorice, soy sauce, sweet, some caramel, some umami, alcohol.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Cherry Island from Põhjala 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml. @ Højbjerg Tasting [ Romania 🇷🇴 Comes to DK 🇩🇰 Tasting ] - Saxo House - Højbjerg.
[ As Põhjala Cherry Island ].
ABV: 10.0%. Clear medium to dark red brown colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, cherry, almonds, marzipan. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average duration, cherry, almonds, marzipan, dark malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming. [20210320]
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