Talvi
Midnight Sun Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
6.85
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iphonephan (11575) reviewed Talvi from Midnight Sun Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On draft at the brewery. Pours a clear dark cola with a tan head. Aromas of burnt toast. Flavors bitter roast coffee. Slightly boozy finish. Nice.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Talvi from Midnight Sun Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, single to perhaps two centimetre tall off-white head that fades fairly quickly and just leaves a few small bubbles on top after a few seconds. Aroma of toasted malt, alcohol, grain, metal, vanilla, lactose, cream, earth and a lot of caramelised sugars - quite strong in the nose, in a good way. Medium to Full-bodied; Very large oatmeal and grainy flavours dominate with a lot of dryness and an earthiness that brings out some rustic qualites, especially a dirty, peanutty nuttiness with a lot of caramelised sugars and coffee flavours that really hit the bitterness at the tail end. Aftertaste is rich, robust, very deep and pungent and earthy with the caramelised sugars showing up as well, but the cream, lactose and dryness are stronger and leave a lingering bitterness throughout here. Overall, a pungent, strong, deep and robust beer that has a lot of depth, but surprisingly, not a lot of body or real complexities here - despite a mellow dash of bourbon and oaky flavours at the first, this is relatively straight forward being dry, grainy, nutty and very creamy with a lot of punch, perhaps showing more than the 8,5 per cent it shows on the label. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Brown Jug in Anchorage (Dimond Center), Alaska on 28-June-2021 for US$8,99 sampled in my hotel room here back in Anchorage, Alaska a day before leaving to go back home after this great vacation up North, again!