Cosmic Ristretto
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
7.52
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Live long and drink Cosmic Ristretto. This highly revered brew will go down in history as one of the first graduates of our Genius Lab program into our front line. Marvel at its rich black appearance with bruleed edges and mocha-colored beer foam. Breathe in its coffee aroma and sweet malts, and savor its smooth, espresso, chocolate flavor. Don’t fight its gravitational pull. This bold, complex, java-centric Baltic Porter with Espresso is irresistible. Houston, we have a problem, my glass is empty.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thanks Andy.
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a thin white to off white foamy thin head. Semi-thin foamy lacing glosses around the sides of the glass nicely.
The smell had a rich dark espresso to milky chocolate/semi-sweet cocoa bean but also somewhat burnt coffee bean. Decent roast.
The taste tried to follow through on the wanted flavor. Mainly had that roasty to burnt flavor rolling on into the aftertaste. Slight dry/roasty/burnt finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with the burnt/roasty/espresso sort of feel hitting my tongue decently. Hmmm...there’s a part of me that wants to say \"excessively,\" hmmm...not bad.
Overall, for a Baltic Porter, pretty good for the most part, leans a bit more towards the roasty sort of almost burnt coffee bean-esque thing. I think I could have again, yeah, pretty sure I could.
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a thin white to off white foamy thin head. Semi-thin foamy lacing glosses around the sides of the glass nicely.
The smell had a rich dark espresso to milky chocolate/semi-sweet cocoa bean but also somewhat burnt coffee bean. Decent roast.
The taste tried to follow through on the wanted flavor. Mainly had that roasty to burnt flavor rolling on into the aftertaste. Slight dry/roasty/burnt finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with the burnt/roasty/espresso sort of feel hitting my tongue decently. Hmmm...there’s a part of me that wants to say \"excessively,\" hmmm...not bad.
Overall, for a Baltic Porter, pretty good for the most part, leans a bit more towards the roasty sort of almost burnt coffee bean-esque thing. I think I could have again, yeah, pretty sure I could.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2016
at 21:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle from ABV. Pours a dark ruddy brown color with a small beige head. A big sweet caramel and coffee nose- straight out of Starbucks. The flavor is similar; big sweet coffee, vanilla, some very heavy rich coffee. Works very well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2016
at 23:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml? Bottle at the March DC Tasting. Poured a dark brown color with a small tan head. Aroma was light roasted malts, some very light coffee, Creamy malt character, light espresso, but nothing overpowering. Not too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2016
at 12:54
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Lots of coffee and some roast. Can’t get a good sense. Of lagering. Black pour with great head and lacing. Bitter finish. Some caramel. Easy drinking. Bottle.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2016
at 15:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at bitter creek boise. Pours out black topped with a tan head. nose is big coffee sweet chocolate roast malts and some vanilla. taste is more of the heavy coffee roast malts sweet milk chocolate.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Feb 2016
at 22:54
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Charred meat and coffee nose, very beefy. Cloudy mahogany, thick tan head, good lacing. Espresso, roasted malt, much less meaty. Full body, easy carbonation. This is a big boy baltic porter, to lagers what stouts are to ales.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2016
at 16:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Deep dark brown color, subtle maroon notes, tan head. Aroma of peppery cocoa. Taste has roast, dark fruit, lightly bitter finish. Tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2016
at 08:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
4 oz pour on draft at Rustico Ballston. Dark brownish black with light tan head. Aromas of espresso, caramel, chocolate. Tastes of coffee, burnt espresso, caramel, dark chocolate, roasty notes. Medium body with a dry finish. Lots of nice coffee/espresso flavor.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Nov 2015
at 22:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Beer Run. I didn’t take notes as I was drinking this, so I am doing it from memory. But I enjoyed the heck out of it. It was nice, smooth drinkable coffee-flavored brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2015
at 07:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours black with a tan head. Aroms is burnt malt/hint of chocolate (note: I didn’t get coffee until a bit later). Med + body. Flavor is chocolate ans smooth burnt malt. (note: I didn’t get coffee until a bit later) Not dry, but not very sweet. Seems to have balancing hop. Nice schwarzbier. Suddenly after a slight break, there’s a lot of coffee. Surprise. Don’t know how I missed it at first.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2015
at 17:45