Draft at Flying Saucer Raleigh. Deep dark ruby red color. Good head retention. Sweet creamy aroma. Taste is smooth. Sweet/sour with caramel and spice. Could be more complex, but still very good. 6/4/7/3/17/3.7

Rerate: 6/6/08...review from cvillebeergeek.blogspot.com.

Appearance: Very, very, very dark with a three finger brown head. Head retention and lacing are both above average. 3.5/5.0

Aroma: Sweet aroma of milk sugar, roasted malt and coffee with just a subtle hint of spiciness. Fairly complex and interesting. 4.0/5.0

Taste: I like! Primarily roasted malts and lactose, but those are in such a perfect balance that they form a perfect singularity that cannot be indentified by its components. I probably like this a little more than most would, but, well... 4.9/5.0

Mouthfeel: Great taste, creamy, smooth and well-balanced. 4.5/5.0

Drinkability: Just like the porter, this weighs in at 5.7%. Rich, but smooth. Sweet, but not cloying. Very drinkable beer. 4.0/5.0

Overall: I rated this beer previously on April 26th at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh, NC. Part of a sampler. I said: "Deep, dark ruby red color. Good head retention. Sweet, creamy aroma. Taste is smooth. Sweet/sour with caramel and spice. Could be more complex, but still good." I tasted a different beer tonight, in a rare instance of the bottle coming across better than draft. Highly complex, highly approachable. This is a hit. 4.4/5.0

That review uses a different rating scale. For Ratebeer: 6/4/9/4/18/4.1.

Bottle courtesy of OldStyleCubFan. Thanks Todd! Pours a copper color with a thin head that disappears quickly. Aroma of toffee and hops. Taste is major hops... way too much until this beer warms up a great deal. When it does warm, the hops are balanced by a strong raisin and ginger taste. Alcohol is noticeable but not irritating. Good effort here.

Bottle at Toms Glasgow tasting 2 ... march 08 ... Deep black ... yeast roast malt little meaty ... vine fruits again lots of meaty ...lots of roast ... little tart 3.8.... bottle at fin april 10 ... black ... thin tan head ... roast malt ... little coffee ... little sourness in the nose ... vine fruits and dark malts ... litttle chocolate ... little red wine 3.7

Bottle. As sweet as this baltic porter is, it is not cloying — balanced by roasted malts and licorice. Opaque brown pour with a frothy, but short, head that diminishes quickly. The enticing aroma is sweet with molasses and caramel. There are strong notes of roasted malts and licorice and hints of sweet chocolate and plums. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet and lightly bitter. Dry, bitter finish. Medium body and watery texture with a middle-of-the-road carbonation. The body was less full than expected and perhaps that is one of the reasons this seems like a dangerous drinker — clean throughout. Very nice, indeed.

Bottle in a trade from Degarth. Thanks man! It’s a sad state of affairs when I have to get a beer from Florida that is brewed in a state that is 3 hours away. Pours a reddish chocolate brown with a one finger head. Very strong and complex aroma of rum, chocolate, cola and brown sugar. Strong caramel flavor rounded out by a bit of yeasty sourness. Nice texture. Very nice.

12oz bottle pours crystal clear amber with thin tan head. Full aroma of dark fruity esters of dates, prunes and bright deep red cherry candy. Behind the fruitiness I get caramel and faint earthiness. The taste is much like the aroma with an initial bolt of dark fruitiness from prunes, ripe cherries, dates and raisins. Midway sweet caramel surfaces along with some faint earthiness. Into the finish the dark fruity esters return with a mild pepper quality. A little too much with the dark fruity esters for the style. Still very enjoyable.

12oz bottle pours dark dark brown with amber edges and thin light brown head. Looks a bit like a Porter. First whiff contains a certain milk quality although the dominant aroma is medium to well roasted malts. I also get some mild amounts of chocolate, caramel and a faint burnt maltiness. The taste reveals much more burnt maltiness than the nose. To go along with the charredness are notes like lactose in an ample quantity, mild malt astringency and some chocolate malts. Then midway a sweet maltiness surfaces before roasty maltiness carries the experience into the after taste where it is met by more burnt malts.

Pours rather explosively, but under a semblance of control, with a very tall light brown head, excellent clear deep amber body with infrared edges and spotty lacing. The aroma is more than adequate for a brown with inviting nuttiness, roastiness and burnt toast. The taste is very similar with tasty medium to high roasted malts running along with nuttiness and an undercurrent of mild malt astringency. It leaves a nice roasty – toasty – malty taste behind into the after taste.

Courtesy of Degarth. Pours deep dark with dark brown edges and tan foam ring of foam. The aroma is a bit of roasty malts, bigger burnt malts follow shortly after along with chocolate malts, coffee grounds and a mild earthiness. Really nice aroma but missing the dark fruity esters that are a typical contributor to the Baltic Porter style. The taste is thick and rich and velvety. I get roasty malts, burnt malts, coffee and chocolate malts that seem very much like an Imperial Stout. There is a sweetness that runs underneath all the roasty malt notes. Very enjoyable but misses the style in flavor and aroma.