Kvarken Brewery Home Port

Home Port

 

Kvarken Brewery in Korsholm (Mustasaari), Ostrobothnia, Finland 🇫🇮

  Porter Regular
Score
6.93
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 30 Ticks: 18
Home Port is one of our recipemaker Willför’s first home brewing recipes, which pretty much has stuck in the same format since the beginning. To the style the beer is an old school British Porter, where the malts do most of the talking and the bitterness remains quite low, unlike the more modern porters. In the beginning the beer was meant for chill down moments after heavy days at work, but we have also figured out this one goes really well with the typical Finnish and Swedish Christmas food tables, but also with the Swedish traditional Porterstek (porter steak).
 

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6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle (part of a set of four bottles) bought onboard Aurora Botnia from Umeå til Vaasa. Pours dark brown, close to black, with a medium sized tanned head. Roasty aroma with chocolate, nuts, dark, dried fruits and hints of wood. Medium to moderate sweet with medium flavour intensity and a somewhat dry finish. Quite drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2025 at 19:24

gave a cheers!

7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

1/8/2022. Bottle shared by SHIG, cheers. Pours very dark brown almost black with a small creamy frothy beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, ash, dark fruits, berries, fig. Medium sweetness and light roasted bitterness. Medium body, slightly creamy, soft carbonation. Milky cocoa finish. Good.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2022 at 16:09


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

Panda 🐼 at home thanks to SHIG. A dark cola brown coloured pour with a fine light tan head. Aroma is nutty earthy rroast, wood, dark berry fruits, . Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty roast, earth, black roast, liquorice, some blackberry jam, Palate is semi sweet, little thin, moderate carbonation. Good fun.

Tried on 27 Jun 2022 at 21:10


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

Panda at home, thanks to SHIG, 26/06/22. Light black with a kahki covering that dissipates to a swirl. Nose is chocolate biscuit, toffee, brown bread, brown sugars, nutty, dried fruit rinds. Taste comprises cocoa powder, roast malts, light spice, toffee, chocolate dipped raisins, brown sugar dusting. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close. Tidy enough porter.

Tried on 26 Jun 2022 at 16:30


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle, thanks WillFörForBeer. Complex, creamy aroma. Chocolate, dark malt, tobacco, dried fruit, coffee, rye bread. Creamy taste, tobacco, roast, light plum, lean, light but soft and creamy. Vague citric and herbal hops hidden behind. A light sipper that benefits from a higher temperature and a slow, relaxed approach to it.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jun 2022 at 16:37


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle thanks to Patrik: Poured a deep brown with a off white to beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, biscuit, licorice. Taste is roasted malts, light smoke, dark fruits, licorice, biscuit, dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2022 at 20:13


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

A very dark brown beer, a head is quite small and beige. Aroma has roastiness, some liquorice, hint of caramel. Taste has roastiness, some breadyness and herbs. Almost medium bodied. Pretty nice.

Tried on 29 Nov 2020 at 11:14


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Flaska från butik i Finland. Mörk, brunsvart med liten beige krona. Rostad, torr och lätt med toner av choklad, toffee, kaffesump och svarta vinbär. Rostade toner och råg i eftersmaken. Drinkvänligt, uppfriskande.

Tried on 15 Aug 2019 at 14:04


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

Bottle 330ml. @ [ (PBF XII Tasting.) by oh6gdx ] - Petalax, Finland. [ As Kvarken Home Port ].Clear dark brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dark malt, light burnt, smoke notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light bitter with a long duration, dark malt, roasted, sweet malt, medium drym smoke notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20180707] 6-4-6-3-13

Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2018 at 20:20


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled at PBF XII. Black, rich head. Rich toasty coffee aroma. Dry with light-medium body and crisp, rounded mouthfeel. Coffee and dark chocolate on toasty bread. Mid bitter finish. Excellent!

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2018 at 17:36