Põhjala Hämarik

Hämarik

 

Põhjala in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia 🇪🇪

Collab with: Other Half Brewing
  Porter - Imperial Baltic Regular Out of Production
Score
7.69
ABV: 12.0% IBU: 50 Ticks: 74
Collaboration with Other Half. An Imperial Baltic Porter brewed with rye malt, Tahitian vanilla beans, and Brazilian coffee.

Taste: Freshly brewed coffee with sweet biscuit and toasted bread mixes with a rich vanilla frosted espresso cake character. Cherries and a light touch of almonds come through as well as fruity dark rum notes. Sweet sticky toffee and coconut joins in, with just enough bitterness to balance it all out, and leaves the elegant taste of a freshly toasted cardamon bun on the tongue.
 

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7.6/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Tap at Mad House. Pours oily black with beige head. Nose is bog coffee, earth notes, booze. Taste is big on sweet booze and coffee, a bit pungent, no vanilla, molasses and earthy notes. Closes with long lasting sweet boozy finish, has medium to full body and soft carbo.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:01

8.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
From tap at Van Moll Fest 2019. Big roasty aroma with coffee, vanilla, espresso, mocha, dark chocolate, some alcohol, bitter roast, notes of cookie. Sweetish flavour, roasty bitterness, more coffee. Body is full. Lovely.
Tried from Draft on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:56

7/10
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Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2022 at 22:03

8.9/10 — Appearance 9 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 9
Black, creamy brown head. Smells heavy earthy coffee, roastyness, light vanilla. Lovely thick and creamy body, with just the right amount of carbonation. Taste is intense roast, both from malts and coffee, some spicy rye, and very light vanilla. Lovely.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2021 at 22:00

9.6/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 9.5
Très belle coopération entre les brasseries Pohjal et Other Half, où l'on reconnait le savoir-faire de Pohjala dans les porter avec un splendide équilibre. Ce porter est à la fois une tendre caresse et une intense étreinte. Une base torréfiée à merveille sur de beaux arômes pleins de café et chocolat, une texture soyeuse, une vanille et de légers arômes pimentés qui relèvent surtout et surtout un alcool à 12 % parfaitement intégré à la fois vif et chaleureux. Une très belle gourmandise. Mais revenons au début. Nous sommes ici sur un Baltic Porter enrichi de vanille de Tahiti et de café brésilien. Le visuel est sur un noir total surmonté d'une belle mousse brune. Le nez est intense et soyeux sur un cocktail simple mais gourmand de café, moka et vanille. On retrouve ces arômes avec une pointe pimentée sur l'attaque. L'ensemble est plein et riche et d'autant plus en seconde bouche où l'alcool devient plus tonique mais sans dénoter. L’arrière-bouche est sur un café plus serré et un alcool vif tandis que la final est un véritable câlin sur le café et la vanille. Arômes simples, mais très bel équilibre rendant ce Porter assez exceptionnel.
Tried on 27 Dec 2020 at 15:37

8.5/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
3/12/2020. Bottle from Two Brews, Colchester. Pours black with a super dark tan coloured head. Aroma of dark chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, liquorice, vanilla, caramel, ash. Moderate sweetness, medium to heavy roast bitterness. Full body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Rich and flavoursome, a delicious long evening sipper.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2020 at 23:19

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33 cL bottle. Pours pitch black, small tan to brown head. Aroma is thick malty. Roasted. Liqourice. Dark malty. Dark malty and roasted finish.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Nov 2020 at 17:21

8.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
For min virkelig binære rating (nr. 10101) har jeg gjort et dypdykk i kjelleren og funnet denne, som jeg tror jeg har kjøpt hos den statlige leverandør av primærprofylakse på Kvadrat. Brunsvart med ok skum. Nærmest vinøs, lett syrlig aroma og smak med mørke dessertchokolader, vanilje og luxuskaffe tilsatt en skvett Drambuie. Hint av bjørnebærdessert. Et vellykket valg og en utmerket følgesvenn til Korngolds Abscheidslieder med LInda Finnie og BBC Philharmonic (Chandos).
Tried on 16 Sep 2020 at 18:56

7.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Tap @ Mikkeller, Aarhus. Small head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich coffee, vanilla, roast malt and hops. Nice warming finish.
Tried from Draft on 25 Aug 2020 at 15:09

8.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
(Bottle) Pours black with tiny brown head. Aroma is a complex mix of tar, toffee, smoke, coffee. Full bodied, thick and sticky with fine carbonation. The taste is awesome, rich and complex. There’s plenty of sweetness. But this is well balanced by burnt sugar bitterness and a porty alcohol bite. There’s coffee notes too. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2020 at 13:40