Talk about the cart before the horse, I had the bourbon barrel-ed version years ago, so glad to finally try this gem.
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown almost black color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated nicely. A one finger white foamy head started and dissipated nicely. Messy lacing winds around the glass nicely.
The smell takes in roasty dark, milk and baker’s chocolate notes inside of a light bready sticky flavor (lager yeast, I’m guessing). Smooth roasty chocolatey aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body with a pretty good sessionability about it. Carbonation runs light and refined. Dark chocolate shows a light bitterness in the harshness of how it hits my tongue. I’d say nice.
Overall, really nice Baltic Porter, I’m glad I finally got to try this one. Well worth my time.

Bottle @ joes. Black colour with a medium sized beige head. Smells chocolate, sweet, roasty, vanilla, nice. Not perfect but quite nice. Tastes sweet, malts, chocolate, roasty, vanilla. Quite nice. Medium to full body, soft carbo.

Bottle. Nose is milk chocolate, praline, hazelnut, brown sugars, plums, fruit cake, hints of cola. Taste is chocolate, licorice, plums, cherry and red berry, fruit cake, hint of cola, lots and lots of hazelnut, hint of wood with dark chocolate and vanilla with a touch of tobacco in the finish. Mouthfeel is rich. Baltic porter is a style I don’t have a good working knowledge of, but I enjoyed this a lot.

355 ml. bottle split with kraddel & anderfernandez. Black small mocha head. Nose is mocha, soy sauce, umami, mushrooms, thick lager mocha. Taste is lightly sparkling mocha soy sauce, touch boozy red fruits, coffee, cacao,… Thicker lager body. A touch much but overall a very interesting & nice beer.