Baltic Porter

Dovetail Brewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

Porter - Baltic Rotating

Score

7.10

ABV: 6.1%

IBU: 30

Ticks: 7

When the popular English Porter started traveling up the Baltic coast in the 1800s, brewers in Sweden, Finland, Poland, and Russia adapted the style and made it their own. This Dovetail version is based on the Baltic Porters we love to pick up at the Polish delis on the West Side. It's our darkest lager; capped by a large stand of cream-colored foam to showcase deep and rich malt aromas of milk chocolate, raisins, and restrained coffee roast. It's smooth and balanced, but exhibits slightly more bravado and complexity than its English counterparts.

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7.1

trapped (8300) reviewed Baltic Porter from Dovetail Brewery 10 months ago

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Can from a liquor store in Chicago. Pours brown with red highlights, large spongy tan head, faint caramel-mocha aroma, medium carbonation, initially sweetish caramel-mocha taste, thin body, long caramel-mocha finish. Decent porter.

Tried from Can on 14 Apr 2025 at 19:04

7.8

poisoneddwarf (5469) reviewed Baltic Porter from Dovetail Brewery 11 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Aroma is roasty, chocolaty (Whoppers malt balls). Taste is a little sweet with a light tang and some light bitterness on the back end.

Tried from Can on 08 Mar 2025 at 03:28

6.6

solidfunk (21946) reviewed Baltic Porter from Dovetail Brewery 1 year ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Roast and some sour lemon. Not exactly the experience I was hoping for here. Not sure what's going on with sour mash tang. Black pour with decent head. Light bitterness in finish along with the tang. Some roast, coffee. Can from Brew Shop advent calendar.

Tried from Can from The Brew Shop (Courthouse) on 18 Feb 2025 at 23:59

6.9

nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Baltic Porter from Dovetail Brewery 1 year ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

16oz can pours a cola brown, beige head fades fast. Nose has malt and cola and brown sugar, pumpernickel, yeast. Flavor is rootbeer and cola and brown Russian bread. Off dry, medium full bodied.

Tried from Can on 13 Dec 2024 at 02:11

7.5

willisread (9761) ticked Baltic Porter from Dovetail Brewery 2 years ago

Tried from Can on 08 Apr 2023 at 04:45

Jow (8309) reviewed Baltic Porter from Dovetail Brewery 4 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Late night can. Dark but more brown than black. Nose is chocolate and ash. Tastes of char, licorice, raisin, chocolate. Smooth palate. Low bitterness. Not much bold flavors but pleasant enough.

Tried from Can on 11 Aug 2021 at 03:47

nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Baltic Porter from Dovetail Brewery 4 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

16oz can from the brewery. I think I had this years ago when I first visited the brewery...serious backlog problems. Sort of nails it. Nice chocolate, caramel tone without being syrupy. Moderate ABV keeps it quite drinkable. Really enjoyable. balanced, solid beer.

Tried from Can on 22 Jun 2021 at 05:40