The Awakening Place
Belleflower Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
7.41
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Lagered for two months, this Baltic Porter was fermented low and slow with a German lager strain and piled high with characterful malts. The Awakening Place erupts with aromas of chocolate-covered raisins, toasted barley, and subtle roast. Each sip brings waves of deeply complex malt character of roasted nuts, caramel, and light roast coffee, along with dark fruit flavors of fig and raisin. A medium-full body and warming finish makes this a great fireside sipper.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark pour and purplish head. Nose is molasses and soy. Tastes of cocoa, soy, molasses. Licorice, dark fruit. Smooth palate.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2026
at 04:19
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
8 oz. draft at the brewery. Aroma, chocolate, roasted barley, some dark fruit. Flavor follows with a little bit of ash. Mild leather hints. Full body with a roasted finish. Quite good.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2024
at 23:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours mostly black I think, and a beige frothy head. Aroma's of roasted malts, coffee-ish. Flavour is light sweet, roasted bitterish. Medium bodied. Smooth carbonation. Moderate bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
BeerTemple
on 03 Nov 2022
at 18:03
6.8/10
Mm okay. Base beer is solid, probably oxidized, feels a bit stale. But crisp and lager lager good. Beer temple ams
Tried
on 01 Nov 2022
at 21:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft: Poured a black brown with a thick beige to light brown head. Aroma is rich malty, nutty, chocolate. Taste is rich malty, chocolate, biscuit.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2022
at 13:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at 73 Enid Street, 01/07/22. Black with a big ole tan head that stays for the show. Nose is dark chocolate, roast malts, spice, charr, toffee. Taste comprises cocoa powder, molasses, spice, brown sugars, burnt toffee, dried fruit rinds. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a gentle kiss of booze. Decent.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2022
at 11:56
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at 73 Enid Street. A opaque black brown coloured pour with a huge creamy tan head. Aroma is woody hazelnut, nutty, vanilla, mellow roast,. Earthy roast. Flavour is composed of semi sweet z nutty hazelnut spread, vanilla, toasted chocolate, oily. Palate is semi sweet, frorhy airy carbonation, oily finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jul 2022
at 20:07
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Tried on tap at Cloudwater Bermondsey. Jet black with a thick tan head. Aroma and taste are malty chocolate and slight fruit. Moderately roasted bitter. Very smooth body.
Tried
from Draft
at
73 Enid Street (Cloudwater London Taproom)
on 01 Jul 2022
at 16:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Cloudwater taproom, Bermondsey, London. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a healthy beige head on top. Roasty, malty, chocolate, caramel aroma & taste. Slightly bitter porter, decent enough effort.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jun 2022
at 22:13
7/10
Tried
on 19 Jun 2022
at 15:22