Heavyweight Perkunos Hammer Imperial Porter

Formerly brewed at Heavyweight Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Ocean Township, New Jersey USA

Poured a semi-thick onyx with a small tan head which dissipated quickly. Incredibly powerful aroma of sweet chocolate with dark fruit undertones. Taste is slightly sweet yet somewhat tart, with dark fruits predominating. The taste slowly smooths out to a tart and bitter finish of roasted coffee and chocolate. Alcohol well-hidden. Decent mouthfeel.

Bottle. Nice deep black color. Good brown head that slowly fades to ring the edge. Aromas of Alcohol and for some damn reason urine. Medium bodied. A little bit puckering. Very well malted. Decent hopping. A fair Baltic.

I am the Slavic god ofthunder, Perun. Who is this Perkuna? Fromthe Baltics. Fie! Your beer is kind of sweet. Maybe too sweet. And when I poured it, the head was overwhelming. Huge. Not a bad porter. I think’s however, my bottle was shooken.

bottle courtesy of the_beer_god. pleasant aroma of dark malt, a touch of roasted coffee and dark unsweetened chocolate. slightly yeasty. dark black with an appropriately-szied head, but it’s an artificial-looking orange/tan color. i’m very intrigued, and i haven’t even taken a sip yet. yum! tastes like warm, if it’s possible to assign one sense to another...some associated lager flavors, but it’s very clean and quite complex. sweet, chocolate raspberry, some other appley citrusy fruits chime in. i really like this beer.

Probably my roughest to rate beer to date. It looks and smells like an A beer, but something in the taste is odd. I’d like to try a whole bunch of baltic porters in one sitting to see what it turns out like, cuz this reminds me alot of what a baltic anything should taste like...and its not good. Kinda salty sweet, chocolatey but not a good chocolate. Very strange, drinkable....but strange.

I first sampled this with Sham and Buck Dich up in Boise, and at first it smelled like buffalo wing sauce... but that was after a bunch of other beers that pretty much had wrecked my palate by then. So now I have another bottle all to myself thanks to a trade with footbalm, and while it doesn’t smell like chicken wings anymore, there is a spicy grape, cayenne and yeast aroma that I’m noticing. It’s odd, almost fuesal. Flavor from a very cold sample is initially cabbage and plastic and fuel... this one has to warm for sure. Warmed to about 45-50 it still has an overriding plastic flavor, though it feels thicker and more of the smoky charred malts are present... alcohol is starting to be noticed at this temperature as well. Warmed up further, close to 60 F, a big yeast and brown sugar quality emerges. Thick and oily, but too much burning plastic off flavor to be fully enjoyed. A disappointment.

Dark brown nearing black, with a small filmy head and some spots of lace. All right, it’s not cayenne or hot wings like mjames says, but there is a pepperyness and spice touch. Heavy on the sweet fruit. Caramel strikes me first, followed by some vinous qualitites. Brown sugar as well. Cloying palate, covering the mouth. Finishes sweet and spicy. Perhaps salty.

body is black, no light shines through. head is light brown, thick and foamy. medium last but no lacing. nose is an alluring molasses cookie, licorice, light toasted malt. flavor is bitter molasses, dark malt, also vodka and dry hoppiness. lively carbonation, medium/light oily mouthfeel.