Hanseatic Porter
Little Earth Project in Sudbury, Suffolk, England 🏴
Porter - Imperial Baltic Regular|
Score
7.04
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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.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Cotteridge Convention 2017. It pours darkest brown - black with a small beige head. The aroma is rich roasted malt, chocolate, sticky, sweet, dark fruits, vimto, fruit cake and some jam. the taste is slick, sweet - sour, charred wood, toasty, vinous, vimto, chewy malt, currant, Eccles cake, earth and some warming alcohol through the finish. Medium+ body and fine carbonation. Quite vinous in nature. Rich and has a good depth of flavour. One of their best to date,
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2017
at 07:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at the Cotteridge Convention III 2017. Poured a clear dark brown with a thin broken light tan head. The roasty malt floral hop. The flavour is moderate sweet light bitter with a smooth rich sweet floral aromatic dry hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
on 20 May 2017
at 10:46
6/10
Tried
on 20 May 2017
at 09:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Merton Winter Beer Festival and drunk at home. Black beer lasting thin tan head. Dark fruity sour aroma. It’s more like an old ale. A sour dark ale. It’s fine, some sour dark fruit, some sour liquorice. Some herb. It’s interesting. Some oilyness. Interesting as hell. Reminded me of my friend’s dad’s pipe tobacco smell. Wild.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2017
at 13:50
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle many thx to Grumbo cons 2017-02-19 Göteborg AR: vinos, kriek, roasted malt, wee tar AP: dark red brown, wee fizzy deminshing transparent brown foam F: warming feeling, vinos vs germsn kriek wine, dry, roasted malt, tar, leather, grainy, not a Baltic Porter in my book rather like a Belgian Sour Red Beer like Rodenbach Grand Cru - but still nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2017
at 13:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Beer Gonzo, Coventry. Deep cola black colour with a thin tan head. Aroma has tart fruit and berries, with like roasted malt and chocolate. Taste dark sour fruity, an roasted bitterness. Full body, but feels light for 10%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2017
at 15:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Pours very dark brown with a thin head. Aroma is tobacco, chocolate and sour dark fruits. Taste has leathery chocolate to start. Sour dark fruits finish. Rough lambic. Flat as, I like what they’re doing but they need to work on their bottling.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2017
at 15:07
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark brown pour with a thin tan head, aroma has tart red fruits, taste has some bitter chocolate, sour dark fruits, proper old skool brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2016
at 17:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beer Gonzo, Earlsdon, Coventry, consumed at Cabbage Moors campsite, Cambridge, Tuesday 6th September 2016 whilst cooking Philadelphia luxurious crabmeat linguine. Pours almost black but peeling away to dark chestnut at the edges, there is just a few bubbles around the rim. Quite a tangy sprightly number with a little edgy tart sour edge, I thought that the barrel ageing would make this a big boozy lethargic affair (it isn’t) in fact I cannot believe that this is 10% it hides the abv amazingly well. This gets better and better as you slowly sip. Some dark unripe fruit skins, a little raspy rub on the teeth and guns, it’s a very easy drinking beer and I guess that the brewer has achieved their objective, i.e. to brew a beer close as close as possible to the original. Like this and like what this brewery is doing. A7 A3 T7 P4 Ov15 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2016
at 21:36