Baltika 6 Porter

This beer was pretty bad. I couldn’t finish it. While it looks great, brown colour with tan head, it tastes quite awful. It has a very sweet flavor. It has quite bad aftertaste as well.

Dark brown, reddish highlights. Really thick head. Nose has roasted notes and is nutty. Palate alternates between dry and oily (not well mixed?) cocoa is prevalent. Very sweet and tasty, good, not excellent like other baltics I’ve had.

Bottle: Pours a solid darkest of brown color with a quickly dissolved large sized tan colored creamy head. Aroma is of a rich blend of malts with notes of coffee and caramel. Taste is of well blended rich malts and subtle hops with notes of coffee and caramel. Ending is lightly sweet. Full bodied and creamy, with ample carbonation. Thanks for sharing JB.

Dark black body with an off white head. Aroma has some cream, sugar and roasted malts. Flavor is sweet, dark malts, creamy coffee, molasses and sugar. Pretty smooth and easy to drink. Simple and flavorful.

Very nice porter, sweet and roasty. The beer pours a deep, dark brown. It’s just barely translucent with a beige head. The aroma is a bit underwhelming with some cheap, simple malt smell that happily doesn’t come through much in the flavor. The flavor is well-balanced, particularly for a porter, a style that a lot of breweries tend to take too far, in my opinion. There’s an excellent roasted malt note, burnt without getting too harsh. The malt is also sweet with caramel and fruit. This is a calmer, more drinkable Baltic Porter than most from American breweries. I have no idea, really, but imagine it to be closer to the historical roots of the style. It’s a very nice beer that doesn’t try to be too much.

Bottle, poured cellar temperature in a tall cylinder glass. The colour is dark brown with a slight purple/red hue in the light. It has a thick, foamy, creamy tan head, two inches tall. The aroma is very nice: molasses, raisin, prune, candy sugar, coffee beans, slight piney hops. Mouthfeel is slick, medium in body. There is sweet fruit initially in the flavour, some more prune with fresh dark cherries, moving to dry coffee, dark chocolate with more molasses (though more subtle than in the aroma). There’s some burnt nuts and dark malt with more fruit, mild hops and damp wood. The finish is long and dry with chocolate, coffee and subtle raisin with cherry. It would be wonderful to return to this beer again.

500mL bottle from an LCBO giftpack, poured into the branded glass it came with. I have been wanting to try this for a long time. Pours a super dark but still clear reddish brown with a large beige head. The aroma is very enticing, nice roasted malts, caramalt, molasses, minor chocolate, breadiness one might expect from a dark Dopplebock, and a weird earthy woodiness that is unique and quite nice. Smells awesome. Flavour is very sweet upfront, pale malts with dark roasted malt, chocolate malts, carbonated body and molasses in the finish with that woody aftertaste. Somewhat black bready, and a red grape ester shows up as it warms. Lingering bitter sweet medly of all flavours. Slightly oily feel balanced with moderate carbonation, super drinkable for a 7% beer. A very solid Baltic Porter and all around beer. Even though I have to get a whole new gift pack I plan on buying more just to get this beer.

A black beer with a nice looking head. The aroma was quite mild with a very light roastedness. The taste had some dark fruits, & tasted like Coke with less carbonation. Gotta try more Baltic Porters.