Absolute gusher of a can. Always annoying. Opaque yellow with a white head. Creamy tropical fruits, sweet, soft, oat sweetness. Full bodied like drinking yogurt. Finish is more sweet, creamy fruits. It’s fine.

BB 10.01.2027 - Cytrusowe, owocowe ze sporą goryczką, kontrowana ciałem piwa, całkiem spoko piwko.

Cytrusy, tropiki, żółte owoce, delikatnie czerwone owoce typu poziomka czy truskawka, finisz wpadający w ziemistosc, orzechy. Barwa jasnozłota, mętne, ładna i trwała piana, ładny lacing. Goryczka niska, cytrusowa. Wytrawne, chmielowe, rześkie, pijalne, lekko się pije i sprawia wrażenie jakiejś 14ki. Bardzo dobre.

Słomkowa barwa, opalenizujące, piana intensywna opada pozostawiając ślady na szkle. W aromacie wyczuwalne nuty cytrusowe oraz zbożowe. W smaku bardzo podobnie do aromatu, trochę wodniste, to jednak tylko 10,5 BLG, goryczka na średnim poziomie, nasycenie również na średnim poziomie, alkohol niewyczuwalny.

With what Põhjala and other Estonian craft brewers did with the old Baltic porter, one could almost forget that its natural range stretched beyond the actual Baltics, into Russia and Scandinavia but also Poland, where the versions of Okocim and Zywiec were the last remaining ones kept alive before the advent of craft beer. After the craft beer movement had arrived, Stu Mostów made a voluminous contribution to the style, enriching it with the same kind of adornments often applied to imperial stout - in this case flavouring it with roasted coconut and toasted Palo Santo wood. Can from Être Gourmet. Dense, quite thick and firm, deep greyish beige, creamy, regular head, sparsely lacing over a black robe with deep ruby red glow only visible under bright light and at the outer edges. Intense aroma of the Palo Santo, almost sandalwood- and tonka-like, slivovitz or calvados, melting black chocolate, clear coconut piercing through, nougat, coffee cream, hint liquorice, paraffin, bayleaf, wood glue. Sweet onset but not sugary, rounded candied date-, candied plum- and dried apple peel-like aspects, finely tingling carb, very light umami touch (black olive) before moving into a full, layered dark maltiness, dark-chocolatey in its core, vaguely caramelly and coffeeish, marmite- and toast-like but more sweet than bitter, with the sweet effect accentuated by the aroma of the coconut - although the fact that it has been roasted, adds to the bitter side without becoming deeply roasty as a whole. Leafy hops enter before the Palo Santo wood does its thing, shrouding everything in this exotic, sandalwood- and marzipan-like fragrance which last forever retronasally. Alcohol, however, gets the last word again, becoming slivovitz-like as they make them in Poland and beyond: crude, wry and hot. It thins and dilutes the delicate malt effects and leaves an unpleasant bitterness on the root of the tongue which clearly does not come from hops or roastiness. For this alone, a notch below true greatness for me - which is the case with everything I had from this brewery so far: always close, but never a cigar.