Baltic Porter with Tanacetum Balsamita
Sakiškės Brewery (Sakiškių Alus) in Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania 🇱🇹
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
6.96
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Tanacetum balsamita is a perennial temperate herb known as costmary, alecost, balsam herb, bible leaf, or mint geranium. It’s minty in smell and taste and widely used in food, beverages and traditional medicine.
EBC: 58
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Tap at HBF2023, Helsinki. Color is almost Black with slightly brownish head. Aromas and flavors: Chocolate, some milk chocolate, strange Spices, roasted malts... messy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A small taste from a friend @ Helsinki Beer Festival 2023. Pours very dark brown with a low tan head. Aroma is roasted herbal malts. Flavor is roasted herbal malts with some hops. Good.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottle 33cl. @home poured into a teku glass. Strong medicinal nose. Clear amberbrown, small stable frothy off-white head, minimal lacing. Medicinal aroma, roasted malts, costmary, chamomile, liquorice, anise, light mint. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, herbs (as in the aroma), light caramel, liquorice. Medium body, oily to creamy texture, soft carbonation, herbal sweetbitter aftertaste, malty backbone, alcohol notes. Initially overwhelmingly medicinal, it takes quite some time to 'thaw', beer that you have to let sit for a while before it stabilizes and unfolds completely itself, very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, redd-ish, dark brown colour with small to average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Herbal and slightly dark malty aroma, notes of costmary, camphor, whiffs of liquorice and mint. Taste is herbal and sweet-ish, dark malty, notes of costmary, camphor, a touch of liquorice and mint. Creamy texture, smooth and soft, somehow minimally dry and chilled palate, fine, mildly brickly carbonation. Not much Porter character, herb-dominated, refreshing due to the mint portion in the flavour profile - nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Brownish amber color, hazy with light brown head. Caramel, roast, malt aromas. Light bitterness. Average body, bit carbonated.