Hanseatic Porter

During the early days of exports of beer from England, one of the main destinations for the sailing vessels would have been the Hanseatic ports of the Baltic and North Sea. These beers were exported in large quantities and would have sat in wooden barrels for months at a time. Eventually the recipients found ways of reproducing using their own methods. This beer is our modern interpretation of the type of porter drank in the Baltic during the 18th and 19th Centuries. It is dark, dry, and leathery with a hint of hedgerow fruit and slight wood from barrel aging.