Black Boss Porter 9.4%

Brewed by BOSS Browar Witnica
Style: Baltic Porter
Witnica, Poland

[Bottle from Gothenburg System Bolaget] Nose is chocolatey, vanilla , roasted coffee, dark fruit, blackcurrant. Full bodied and pretty sweet.

Bottle (GBBF 2006): Brilliant ruby red hue. Sweet caramel nutty with choc. Quite strong but balanced. German bock-like notes with soy there. Nice though!

(Bottle at home) Pours dark brown to red. Small, fast decreasing light brown head. Smells chocolate. Creamy, malty and some sugar. Taste: chocolate with some milky coffee. Really well hidden alcohol. Malty. Some peppery notes, meybee from the alcohol. Very mild beer. To stale aftertaste. Lingering malty aftertaste. Not too complex. Small to medium body.

RBESG 2006, bottle. Black colour. Dusty aroma with notes of liquorice and dark chocolate. Sweetish flavour of rye bread and some coffee, low bitterness. Alcohol is well hidden.

Vanilla, alcohol and porter in the nose. Taste is vinous, sweet, chocolate with more vanilla, a good porter.

500 ml bottle, via MrWalker and jjpm74. Pours a very dark brown colored body, almost black, under a large foamy brown head that lasted forever and left intricate lacing. Aroma is roasty and full of caramel with some chalk, coffee, burnt malts, and a touch of alcohol. Flavor is a mix of caramel and burnt malts. Fairly sweet up front, but dries out on the finish. Not much alcohol to speak of which is really quite impressive for a 9.4% beer. Mouthfeel is medium bodied and oily in texture with very fine soft carbonation. Pretty damn good, yet I can imagine what this might have become were it left unfiltered.

Sold as Czarny Boss Porter in Ermelo. Deep dark brown color, almost opague. Coffee aroma with a touch of caramel. Just below medium bodied. Roasted malt, coffee, molasses, hints of apple. Likeable but somewhat grainy and sweet. No first class quality.

16 oz bottle. Dark Brownish/black with a hint of red. Bubbly head that leaves a whole lotta lace. Fruity chocolate aroma. Mocha/chocolate and raisin flavor, lots of toasted caramel malt. Creamy and full bodied. Sweet finish that is a bit fleeting but very nice while it lasts. Very little hint of the 9%+ alcohol. Very very smooth and very straightforward. Very easy drinking. 2 of these and you would be butt-faced. And it is so easy to drink, you could down 2 of them in a heartbeat, highly dangerous and highly tastey, so be careful and be responsible, lol...Man i love a great Porter. This is going to be a new favorite in my cellar! Smooth, smooth, smooth. Over the top hopheads need not apply, as this is for heavy malt lovers only, if you enjoy honey flavored espresso you will love this liquid meal.