Koff Porter

Brewed by Sinebrychoff (Carlsberg)
Style: Baltic Porter
Kerava, Finland

Pours black with a huge dense brown head, diminishes slightly, great lace. Nose of dark fruit, sweet malt, raisins, coffee. Taste is slight sourness, roasted malt, chocolate, moving into a semi-bitter hoppyness and finishing with a touch of alcohol. Medium-full body, creamy, soft carbonation, finishes dry. Quite balanced, the sourness is a little weird at first, but I slowly grew to like it.

11.2oz bottle. Pours a black body with a finger-width, dark brown, creamy and dense, inch thick head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate lacing. Aroma is buttery sweet malts, grapes, chocolate, raisin, a light sour fruit, and a bit of whiskey. Flavor is sweet as well with a wild mixture of flavors. Some blueberry cream, grapes, chocolate, vanilla, moderately bitter hops and roast, a bit figgy, and just a light coffee. Finishes dry and lingers with a fruity caramel/chocolate, medium bitterness and roast, and a creamy honey. Palate is medium bodied and clean. Overall, a really tasty baltic porter. Fruity with plenty of porter taste. Nice.

Pours black as ever with a large chunky head that resembles melted chocolate ice cream. Leaves nice lacing too. The aroma is full of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, anise, and maybe some dark fruit. The flavor is similar except for some watery sweetness that purges through and throws off the dark bitter everything else. Finish is coffee bitter and some cloying sweetness. Good, but would’ve liked the flavors to blend better.

Tap at Ginger Man. Aroma of lots of candied fruits, some musty notes. Flavor adds sweet malt and some chocolate. Ok.

Tap at Ginger Man. Ehh. not very complex. Aroma is roasted malts and some strange sours sweetness. Flavor is roasted malt and coffee with not much else.

Pours black with a brown head. Aroma is sweet and roasty malt, dark fruit and a bit of smoke. Flavor is roasty malt, smoke, and a dry finish.

On tap at The GInger Man (listed as Sinebrychoff Porter). Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is sour and peaty, kind of weird. Flavor is very medicinal with sweet roasted malt. This was pretty bad...my opinion seems very different from other ratebeerians--bad keg? 5/4/5/3/10 (2.7/5)

12 oz bottle from secret santa. Thanks Rudy. Pours an opaque black with a large tan head that has fair retention and plenty of lacing. The aroma is strong with coffee, roasted malts and dark fruits. The taste is rich and earthy with coffee, mocha, prunes and dirt. The mouthfeel is silky smooth and dry with soft carbonation. The finish is long with lingering coffee. Overall: My first brew from Finland and a very niceone at that.