Koff Porter

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

I had this beer at Brigid’s in Philadelphia. It poured an oily black, with a thick creamy biege head. Roasty aroma. Full and slick mouthfeel. Roasted chocolate, coffee, dark fruits, and hops on the tongue. Nice finish, with a lingering aftertaste. A truly great beer. An excellent example of it’s style.

Pours almost opaque black with a big dark creamy head that leaves a nice ring of lacing at the top of the glass. Aroma is extremely roasty, with a little bit of alcohol coming through. Taste is roasty and full with a nice roasty/bitter aftertaste. Very good, but there are some cheaper examples I like just as much (the single 11.2 I found was 3.50, which is still not bad).

poured from a bottle which the bottle itself looked very old. Jet black body with very little head. The color of the head was orangish with a tint of tan. The aroma again having a tough time with, I would say very sweet licourice (sp) and fruity. Flavor got better thru the tasting, averall not bad for a kick of porter.

bottled. i tried a reasonably fresh bottle and a 3 year old bottle and certainly preferred the fresher one. aroma of fruit salad and coffee. quite yoghurty, slightly thin texture that resembled an aussie foreign stout, faint roasted flavours, pretty decent

This was bottled in 1997. I don’t think I’ve had a beer nearly this old before. It’s delightful. Cocoa aroma, delicious-looking head, blacker ’n a steer’s tookus. Medium to thin body made up for by strong doppelbocky, Scotch-aley malt presence, with a combination of sweet and smoky finish. Strong finish has flavor particles crisply dancing on the tongue. (Medium-thin body actually works well on this - moving the palate score from 4 to 5.) I’ll gladly have another. Worth seeking out. Subsequent tastings might make this come down some, but right now it’s right up there.

I love the malt flavor of Weltenburger Asam-Back. This is the closest I’ve seen a beer come to that. Scarily close.

I think I may come to really love this style.

The aroma has DEEPLY roasted malt, chocolate, brown sugar, and dark fruit. The appearance is DARK brow with a tan three finger head. The flavor has all the elements from the aroma plus some burnt wood. The palate is about right for a porter. This is good and would be better if it didn’t have a burnt, astringent finish.

Bottle, 7.2%. Black colour, dark brown head. No aroma to speak of. Sweet, roasted and creamy flavour. Medium bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel.

Pours with almost no head and black but if tilted it reveals a very dark birch beer color. The nose reminds me of a good Pedro Ximenez, sweet, raisiny with hints of coffee and chocolate bar. Broad and ever so smooth on the palate. Tastes like it smells with moderate hopping and the alcohol heft is well integrated. Subtle compared to some imperial stouts. Just right for what it is.