Flossmoor Station Killer Kowalski Baltic Porter

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Baltic Porter
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

This beer is a very very nice baltic porter. its thiner than the duck rabbit baltic or the alaskan baltic but the flavor and complexity is top notch. I can see why this medalled at gabf.

Thanks to fishingnet for sharing this one. Pours dark brown/ black with an off-white head. Nose is dark fruit, chocolate, roast, smoke, and lots of awesomeness. Flavor matches this level of awesomeness with the 8% ABV hidden real well. Add to that vanilla, complexity, love, chocolate, plums, burnt sugar, and fruit. Excellence in a bottle.

Big black pour, tall dark tan head w/ great lacing. Coccoa powder milk chocolate a bitter coffee lots of roast. Full thick creamy palate. Silky milk chocolate flavor nice well roasted malts, lightly bitter coffee in the finish. Great beer.

22oz handbottled by Duane! - Thanks a bunch! - Pours black as night with a healthy tan head that fades back to a ring but leaves scant lace from there. Aromas of some chocolate, lots of plum, prune and raisin, and some slight liccorice. Flavor is amazingly complex as well. Dark bakers chocolate, raisin, prune, roasted malts, slight smoke, caramel, and a little bit of vanilla. Smooth almost oily palate with slight carbonation. No sign of the alcohol.. This one is a beaut and is one of the better Baltics I’ve tried.. Wow i really like this!! Thanks Duane for the chance to get to try this one!!!

Oily black pour, reminiscent of inky octopus attacks, with swirling ruby and chestnut hues that are both very dark and subtle. Thin cream colored head with ample retention. This is a very pretty porter. Aroma is milk chocolate, mellow perfumy yeast, fresh white oak barrels, anise, smoke, berries, light caramel, vanilla, plentiful sweet malt and just a touch of alcohol. Flavor is much the same, with moderate to heavy roastiness as sort of a dessert topping, a syrupy coating. More apparent alcohol and a unique woodiness. Chocolate resembles fresh fudge, like on half cooked brownies. At first the carbonation seems abrasive but keeps this lively. Mouthfeel is slick but full and heavy. Finishes chocolatey and mildly warming. Excellent. A crowning achievement for a top notch brewpub.

Growler $13.95 Flossmoor Station’s new Creation is a baltic porter named Killer Kowalski. Pours the darkest of brown, bordering on black, with faint mahogany stained highlights along the edges only when held directly to the light. A 1 finger super creamy brown head formed on the pour that stayed put for a few minutes before falling to a whispy head that’s thick around the edges. Leaves spotty lacing. The smell is powerful and warming. Deeply roasted malts mingle with coffee grounds and under-ripe banana. Dark fruits abound including fig and plum with a solid dose of boozy sweetness. Complex. Taste is identical to the aroma. There are no rough edges at all. Every flavor meshes perfectly with the next. Finishes with a sweetened boozy hit with mild fumes in the throat. Very enjoyable and warming. The body is rich and luxurious. Creamy and velvety with a medium body that goes down smooth. This beer actually soothes the tongue with the mouthfeel. This is an extremely drinkable Baltic Porter. I could sip this all night long. Until the 8.3% caught up to me anyway. Flossmoor Station always manages to impress me whether it’s their special releases like this or their old standbys. This is an extremely well made Baltic porter that isn’t over-sweetened and sticky like so many others. They built this beer just right. Another great job. 2/24/07

On tap at the brewpub. Dark brown with some garnet highlights and a lasting tan head. The aroma reminds me of Raisinetts, very chocoalte and raisiny. There is a huge chocolate and dried dark fruit flavor as well. Really makes the taste buds state up and take notice. Medium body. Really a top notch beer.

I tried this again and really liked it, but not quite as much as the last time. Oh man! This beer was incredible. Flossmoor is a great brewpub and this beer is a stand out amoung many other great beers. The body was very black with a kahki colored head. The aroma was licorice and chocolate. There was also a hint of high quality tobacco. The taste was anise with dark chocolate and some good tobacco. There was also a little bit of walnuts to complement the nice smooth finish. This beer is a scary one as it is too easy to drink.