The Empty Sea
Forest & Main Brewing Company in Ambler, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
7.31
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Our first Baltic Porter! A style we’ve always admired, but never yet brewed. We mashed this beer with a sizable bill of German barley and an assortment of special and roasted malts. It was fermented cold with our monastic lager yeast, and lagered in the cellar for many weeks.
Notes of homemade whole wheat raisin bread, star anise, burnt cookie bottoms, Thai basil, and some austere chocolate pudding.
Notes of homemade whole wheat raisin bread, star anise, burnt cookie bottoms, Thai basil, and some austere chocolate pudding.
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Top drawer Baltic Porter. Barley, burnt chocolate pudding. Ace
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jun 2024
at 14:05
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Hops Hill. Pours black. Chocolate, liquorice, plum, raisin, toast. Nice soft body. Great.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Mar 2024
at 21:25
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
5-28-23 CBC
Tried
on 29 May 2023
at 02:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap at the F&M tap takeover at Shelter. Malty and carob. Black Forest cake. Smooth. Drinks easy for 8% 7 4 7 4 13
Tried
from Draft
on 18 May 2023
at 13:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Source: pours blackish with beige head. Loads of dark chocolate and a sort of fruity coffee. Taste is sweet and chewy. Some light bitter notes. Really gets the chewy aspect down. Tremendously smooth body. Feels like 8% but drinks like a 5%.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2022
at 03:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
16oz can. I had a pretty good feeling that F&M would nail a Baltic Porter, and they certainly did. Rich chocolate tone, very close to flavored stuff. Full bodied, but really clean and drinkable for the ABV. Sweet specialty malts, but well attenuated overall. Great.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2022
at 22:49