A. Le Coq Porter

500 ml bottle. Dark reddish brown colour, medium-sized dense white head. Sweet roasted malty aroma. Light, roasted and sweet flavour. Unimpressive.

Clear mahogany hue below a thick and creamy off-white head. Smoky nose with teases of cherries and coffee. Restrained toast and cookie flavors at first, evolving into a roasty sensation with light grape acidity and finishing with light coffee bitterness into a chocolate aftertaste. Oily in the mouth with prickling carbonation and a medium weight.

What’s there is good, but it’s mostly sharp smoke and roast with little intensity otherwise.

50 cl bottle, best before 04 April 2009.

Medium sized, creamy, light tan head floats on a clear, matte, medium brown body. The aroma is surprisingly light all the way around, primarily focusing on cherries, cocoa powder, watered down instant coffee an peanuts. In the background, something like rubbing alcohol on cotton balls. Light to moderately sweet tasting of light caramel and watered down coffee. No acidity of any sort to be found. Finishes kind of woody, water and then limps away. Light instant coffee aftertaste. Medium-light bodied with a watery texture and very average carbonation. Flat and dull; nothing offensive, but no reward for consumption. 50cl bottle, bbe 21.07.08.

Clear dark amber with medium off white head. Sweet malty aroma with caramel notes. Sweet malty flavour with caramel and breadish notes.

Hard to really fuck up a baltic porter for me and this is pretty decent. It has the roasted malty aroma, it is a bit sweet and has a dry end. Body could be a bit thicker and so on but I like it.

(Bottle) Pours brown. The aroma is of bready/light caramelly malt and grassy/herbal hops. The flavour is light to medium malty with tones of bread and light caramel alongside a light hoppiness. Medium sweet and light bitter. The mouthfeel is clean and watery. Light to medium bodied.