Murin
La Source Beer Co. in Laken / Laeken, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter - Baltic Special|
Score
7.39
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tderoeck (22711) reviewed Murin from La Source Beer Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16/IV/21 - 33cl can from La Source webshop, shared @ home, BB: 1/III/22 (2021-298)
Clear dark brown to black beer, big creamy solid light beige head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: oh my, lots and lots of roasted malts, chocolate, alcohol, some coffee, cow fodder, rye? MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very chocolatey, nice roast, little bitter, alcohol, malty, cow fodder, some caramel, bit of coffee. Aftertaste: very bitter, good strong roast, coffee notes, alcohol, bit sugary, sweet, some vanilla, milk chocolate, lactose maybe? (checked ingredients, nope)
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Murin from La Source Beer Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl can, BB01.03.2022, lot# P203. as Rye Baltic Porter fermented with lager yeast.
Brune foncée, quasi noire, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé.
Arôme est plaisant avec un 'malt bill' sur du noir entre café, caramel, léger grillé et café. Bouquet fin épicé et épaisseur du seigle avec un côté toasté de pain.
Palais est épais de suite cela se prend en bouche avec une dose généreuse de grains et céréales - rondeur de bouche avec un appui chocolaté. Petite pointe de touche malt crystal - sucre cassonade voire un rappel de mélasse. Je note aussi un léger fruité noir.
Quel bonheur de voir une baltique porter - cela change des ipa. Super aussi de voir que La Source d'assez de tank pour faire du lagering.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Murin from La Source Beer Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl can from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: medium, tanned, good retention. C: black, opaque. A: dark chocolate, bit coffee, light tobacco, caramel, leather, toffee, roasted tones. T: full malty base, dark chocolate, coffee, toffee, caramel, umami touch, nutty, bit vanilla, bit dark fruits, decent bitterness, soft carbonation, very nice, fully enjoyed.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Murin from La Source Beer Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Baltic porter - probably only the second in Belgium as Dok's Baltic Overporter is the only other example I can think of - by Brussels' rising star La Source, not named after a bird this time, but after the honorable bat, in itself a collective of many hundreds of species of flying mammals of course (of which twenty-something occur in Belgium). Thin and immediately open, greyish pale beige, non-lacing 'ring' of a head eventually completely dissolving on a near black beer with misty burgundy red glow. Aroma of unsugared black chocolate, dry beef stock cubes, salmiak, toffee without the sweetness, walnut paste, dry forest floor, black tea, severely charred horse steak, molasses, chewing tobacco and cheap cigars, cold black coffee, wet leather, extinguished bonfire, stewed bayleaf, old dried thyme, hint of patchouli. Restrainedly sweetish onset, 'clean' as can be expected from a lager, beef stock- and porcini-like umami effect mingled with something very vaguely salty, salmiak-like, softly carbonated, full and thickly oily, almost syrupy mouthfeel; hard-caramelly, walnutty, dark grey rye-bready and somewhat bitter-chocolatey maltiness with a bitterish, roasty edge (cigars) and that 'meaty' umami effect continuing, yet in an elegant, non-disturbing and sufficiently 'light' way; something meaty-juicy in the end, charcoal and still strong salmiak associations, leathery and spicy with a leafy hop bitter note supporting the malt bitterness. Vague teriyaki-like accent in the end but that salmiak factor remains the most prominent - as is the case in some classic Baltic porters as well. Some cognac-like alcohol in the finish, but nowhere harsh, not distorting that smooth, softly bittering, eventually chicory-like maltiness too much. Low in sweetness, bitter but nowhere harshly so, full and oily, clean in general flavour profile with an Eastern European feel to it: this 'bat' indeed ticks all the boxes of a good, classically made old Baltic porter, without actually adding a whole lot to this interesting genre. I think this first of its kind in Belgium is a more than decent one!