Black Marlin
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
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7.17
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Our Black Marlin Porter stands out in a town known primarily for its IPA’s. We craft it from a unique blend of roasted and crystallized malts that give it a smooth, chocolaty, caramel profile. Then toss in a healthy dose of American hops to serve up full-bodied flavor worthy of its San Diego roots.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a dark brown, with a creamy, well-sustained off-white head - slightly yeasty nose, with notes of dry cocoa, roasted malts, light anise - semi-dry, with a creamy body that gradually develops a chalky texture - flavors of bittersweet chocolate, mild licorice, strong roasty flavors - develops a fairly strong bitterness for the style in the finish, but it works well with the more dry qualities of the beer - lingering tobacco notes, a touch of ash - a pretty decent porter.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2009
at 19:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
clear brown, large smooth light brown head, nice lacing. sweet caramel, coffe, chocolate in the aroma, roasted grains, flowery sweetness, honey perhaps. quite roasted aroma, roasted grains, coffee. flavor is quite dry and precise, very tasty. ends roasted and dry. not very strong, but lots of flavor nonetheless.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2009
at 11:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours with a nice and big fluffy khaki head over a near black body. Awesome lace and retention. Aroma of cocoa powder, dry and dusty, with some raisins, dark fruit, dark malted grain, fudge brownie, vanilla leather and floral hops. Nice fruitiness, very pleasant smelling. Taste is not as good as the smell, but still quite good, cocoa nibs, chocolate dust, light coffee, low residual sugars, nut shells, and light vanilla. Well attenuated. Bubbly carbonation, perhaps 0.25 of a vol of CO2 too much, thinnish mouthfeel. Overall very drinkable, and could go down well with really any food. An extremely well made Ballast Point beers, one of their better offerings!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2009
at 02:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled (at some pub during the pub crawls in Copenhagen (Maybe Örsted?)). Very deep ambery brown colour with mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, some smoked wood, quite strong roasted coffee as well as some mild caramel malty notes. Mild fruityness also lurking. Flavour is quite much the same in a rather big way, even though in a good balance. Has some late hoppyness. Quite dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2009
at 02:49
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bomber...dark brown to black body with a brown sugar colored head...bitter coffee aroma with some caramel...the lacing kind of sticks...its not dramatic, it just falls...thin body....I taste coffee, in a bitter form... a lot less flavor than I though it would be...a simple porter coffee + caramel....with a very mild bitter chocolate...its a shame it smells better than it tastes... in a few sips the finish is sour and metallic...good one timer, but wouldn’t seek it out...
Tried
on 02 Jun 2009
at 19:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled (@Beer Hunters). Dark ruby red color, firm creamy espresso head. Nose is not very strong, but it has sweet milk chocolate and toasted malts. Medium-bodied. Lots of ash in the toasted flavor, also sweet milky notes. Coffee in the aftertaste. Although this is "porter" by name, this is closer to sweet stouts. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2009
at 10:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle at Hilpeä Hauki, Helsinki, on 2009-04-24) Almost black. Quite quickly disappearing, medium sized and lightly tan coloured head. Metallicness and liquorice in aroma. Medium bodied and dry palate with medium carbonation. Roastedness, ash, coffee, bitterness, liquorice and hint of chocolate in taste. Ash and bitterness in aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2009
at 10:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle, Ölbaren, Copenhagen, 14 Feb 2009) black colour with ruby hints. Creamy, pale brown head. Malty, roasted nose with cocoa, roasted coffee and citrussy hops. Malty, roasted taste with notes of coffee and chocolate, citrussy hops in the finish. Medium body, smooth mouthfeel, mainly dry. Solid and nice porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2009
at 16:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Black with a red hue, and a lasting off-white head. Some chocolate in the aroma with unusual hops for a porter giving peach and other fruity notes - this is distinctly American hops, and they work well with the soft chocolate. Rather dry with a friendly chocolate and licorice flavour. There is a burnt note in the finish and aftertaste. Hop flavour stays in the background but there is clearly a lot of hop bitterness for a porter.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jan 2009
at 18:29