(#739)(#20 PT)(#2 Aveiro)
Bought it at "Intermarché", Beja, PT

Bottle (thanks Karl-Kristjan). Pours black with beige head. Aroma is massive roast, chocolate, malt, booze. Flavor is sweet and bitter, roast, malt, coffee, and burning booze. Overall: okish, too boozy.

Caña en caseta callejera cerca de la iglesia de los clérigos, Oporto. 16..07..2018. (r17) Color bronce rojizo velado con espuma blanca. Sabores más menos intensos dulces con toques acaramelados algo tostados. Maltas tostadas. Cuerpo medio a intenso cierta densidad, algo pastosa y espumosa, ligeramente licorosa y seca al final.

bottle , i think, from a wine shop in alvor, portugal. hazy brown, light brown head. dry, nutty, malty, mild, discrete english style barley wine aroma. flavor is nutty, malty, toffee, faint licorice, faint wood, bitter euro hops. tastes like a strong brown ale, with notes from barley wine. alc. well hidden. is very clean with no off flavors except perhaps a little burnt plastic. it did spill over when opened though.I was in maldives 3 years ago and it seems like since then, at last, portugal is also getting its own craft beer scene, with several small craft breweries popping up here and there, and in the fridges of well stocked wine and booze shops. Finally.. Long way to go to catch up to greece though, but if a similar trajectory is followed as with spain and greece, this could get interesting.

bottle from pingo supermarket, alvor. hazy brown, small light brown head. aroma is wheat fruty, banana, malts, aroma is kind of like a wheat bock. flavor is banana, bitter fruits, wheat, spices. alc. is quite well hidden, but there is a cinnamon like cookie sort of bitterness and breadish fullness to it, that indicates a strong beer. overall somewhat messy, but fairly drinkable.

Draft @ Taproom, Malmö. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate licorice flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and licorice finish.

F: big, egg-white, good retention. C: deep gold, hazy. A: malty, bready, sweet grassy, bit citrus, floral. T: malty, bready, bit toast, caramel, dry on the palate, not taste like Pilsener but more like ale, bit harsh bitterness, drinkable, medium body and carbonation, 33cl bottle from Supercor supermarket @ Rua de Aleixo da Mota in Porto.

F: huge, tanned, long lasting. C: dark, opaque. A: roasted tones, coffee, chocolate, dark dried fruits, cocoa, dark caramel. T: dark malts, vanilla, chocolate, bit smooth alcohol, cocoa, caramel, dark fruits, bit coffee, oily mouthfeel, low to medium carbonation, full body, very good balanced bit more sweet than I prefer so not great yet enjoyed, 50cl bottle from Supercor supermarket @ Rua de Aleixo da Mota in Porto.

F: huge, bit tan, very long lasting. C: coppery, bit hazy. A: malty, caramel, fruity, bit berries, bit vinous, toffee. T: caramel, nutty, warming alcohol, berries, nice fruity, bit toffee, bit spicy, toast, full body and low to medium carbonation, harmonic bitterness, good balanced, enjoyed, 9% is on the bottle, 50cl bottle from Supercor supermarket @ Rua de Aleixo da Mota in Porto.