50cl bottle bought in Cambridge. Reddish copper with a short, dense, cream head; the aroma has spicy apples and roasted malts; the flavour matches but is also rather earthy, the apples are sweet and joined by red fruits, the malts are full and also sweet; the finish has some coffee and some light alcohol. Rather pleasant.

Bottle. Poured dark red brown with thick tan head. Full aroma of caramel, sweet malt, bubblegum and raisins. Sweet malt flavour with caramel notes Dry finish.

bottle at Gotheborg beerfest. pours brown, off white head. Aroma dark fruits and chocolate. Taste, strong malty profile, dark fruits with some candi sugar, tasted more like a dopple bock than a porter.

Fairly decent Baltic porter. Medium body, not much hops, decent roasted malt flavor. Pleasant enough.

500 mL bottle from Sam’s Quik Shop in Durham. Pours a raisin-red color with a medium head and low retention. Aroma is, appropriately enough, raisin, along with dough and hops. Taste is roasted malts with lots of dark fruits and a spicy hop finish. Some alcohol is noticeable.

0.5L bottle, stable foamy beige head, crystal clear dark brown colour with traces of burgundy, soft carbonation. Aroma quite muted with a yeasty nose and some notes of vanila and traces of malt. The flavour starts with a burst of roasted coffee and then come dominant dark bitter chocolate and caramel to round off, overall quite dry. The aftertaste is sour but quite light and short. Body is medium and overall the beer is subtle and not overbearing like a lot of examples of this style. A really good beer.

500ml bottle. Murky, deep, stained glass red-brown color. Nice creamy head. Aroma of brown sugar and licorice. Creamy rich taste, with a pungent chocolate finish. Lots of sweet dark malt characteristics, sort of like a strong Dunkel. The alcohol level is quite nice on this one, clearly stronger than a typical beer, but never overbearing. Pretty good example of the style.

.5 L bottle. A sweet smell when opened and poured, which could tip over the wrong way into saccharine if it’s handled wrong. Muddy brown color I don’t usually find in any porter, though it does show some red highlights in the light. With my nose in the glass, it smells much more alcoholic than it probably really is. Taste has a few nice things going for it; some cocoa and dark roast malts, a sly sneak of ale temperature fruitiness and caramel. Slight suggestions of purple grapes and sweet cider. A bit of molasses cookie with maple in the middle, then a cola impression which is helped by its cola style fizziness. Quite nice and drinkable. The beer I’m having on my 49th birthday… well, I also set a Bell’s 8000 in the fridge to cool, but then we got all worked up over tornadoes going through our town.

Courtesy of Quake1028. Pours clear deep amber with tan head and lots of cobweb lacing. The aroma is sweet muted molasses, caramel, grainy malts and notes of dark fruity esters. The taste feels thin with full on dark fruitiness from dates, prunes and plums along with lesser amounts of caramel and molasses. This beer is sweet and only has a faint note of roasted and burnt malts. Very enjoyable.