Black Boss Porter (9.4%)
Browar Witnica in Witnica, Lubusz, Poland 🇵🇱
Porter - Imperial Baltic Regular|
Score
6.89
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4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
500ml bottle. Certainly a scary one. Crazy eastern European dunkel chocolate and sugar aroma. Basically seems like they added extreme amounts of sugar to the mash. Pretty gross, some pungent chocolate syrup, wreaking of artificiality. Some sweet butterscotch caramel tones in the finish. An awkward, crappy beer...and I typically like Baltic Porters.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2009
at 01:20
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a fruity malty dark fruit and chocolate aroma. Sweetish malty fruity sugary dark fruit flavor with some hints of chocolate. Has a very sweet malty chocolate finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2009
at 09:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep garnet with semi big bubbled tan head. The aroma has notes of dark fruity esters like prunes, figs and dates as well as licorice, burnt malts, some notes of earthiness and a faint hotness on the nostrils. The taste is nice with bold yet even with approachably smooth earthiness mixing with chocolate and burnt malts. Those flavors are followed by an under current of dark fruity esters that tie the taste together nicely. It ends with residual dark fruitiness but mostly roasty malts and fading earthiness. Very pleasing combination of notes creating a very tasty brew.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2008
at 21:25
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with ruby highlights and a deep dense tan head - perfect for the style! Aroma of a good baltic - meaty, mushroomy, caramel, roasted malt, coffee and a touch of chocolate show very well. Medium-bodied; Strong roasted malt flavours with a good backbone of chocolate and the strong savoury flavours come out as well - with some subtle alcohol near the end. Aftertaste shows some complexity with a tiny bit of spice, caramel and mostly mild tastes. Overall, a damn good baltic, rivaling even Zywiec, also from Poland. When I first saw this one, I wanted to try it, and I’m definitely glad I did! Perhaps this aged nicely in the bottle, but I really liked this and would recommend it to anyone! I sampled this 500 mL bottle purchased about two years ago from Whole Foods in Portland (Downtown), Oregon, drunk on 05-August-2008.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2008
at 00:48
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half-liter bottle. Hey, I once worked for a b… no, that’s way too cheap. Nice smell when opened and poured; some porter malts and a lot of graininess. Dark brown in the glass, bubbly foam that settles to a thin layer. Light coffee and dried currant when smelled in glass. Taste is a little medicinal or phenolic, though. If you can get over that, there’s some interesting barley that seemed to have been accosted more than roasted. Big dark roast with some astringency nd hot alcohol. I’m used to my Baltic being much smoother, though those have all been American interpretations. Still after rating mostly lighter beers lately, I was ready to chew on this goober. Found at Woodman’s in Kenosha, and decent for the price.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2008
at 23:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home ... that to Pat for this ... Deep deep brown little red tinge ... good soft roast no bitter malt nose ... over fizzy .... good chocolate ... lots of roast malts ... A decent Porter all in all this is a solid pint.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2008
at 12:06
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small offwhite head. Dark brown barely translucent body. Sweet massive licorice and malt aroma with chocolatey notes. Sweet, mild, rounded licorice taste with vague fruity banana notes. Dry roasty aftertaste. Very nice! (0.5l bottle at RBNAG’07.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2007
at 13:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Chocolate covered raisin aroma - light hint of astringency. Opaque black brown color with moderate tan head. Sweet brown sugar, chocolate-coffee malt flavor - just the light hint of astringency and alcohol. Unbelievably well hidden alcohol level - I would have bet that this wasn’t over 5%. An incredibly smooth, easy drinking baltic porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2007
at 20:05
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aroma of toasted dark malt. Nearly opaque dark brown color with a tan head that is substantial. A bit thin in body. Starts with coffee, followed by toffee. Definite toffee candy sweet. The finish is not dry, and the toffee flavor persists. Interesting, but something of a one note. Not that there might not be hidden complexity, just not obvious to me.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2007
at 19:41
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle sampled at a drinking session in Tromsø. Opaque dark brown body colour. Off-white head containing lots of bubbles. Aroma has got a dark malty profile. Taste like a kind of mouth-filling chocolate milk shake developing into flavour accents of sweet dark malts. Much too sweet and rather one dimensional for a porter (18.04.2007).
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2007
at 13:45