Okocim Porter

Brewed by Carlsberg Polska
Style: Baltic Porter
Warszawa, Poland

Dark rich opaque brownish-black color with a tan head. Aroma is raisins, plums, roasted malts, caramel, and chocolate. Taste explodes in your mouth with nice texture, extremely flavorful with malts and chocolate most prevalent. Really nice porter, definitely recommended!!!!

Rich raisin and chocolate aroma. Black with a beautiful three finger thick mocha head. Lots of roasted malt, raisin and chocolate. Pleasing creamy mouthfeel. Good lacing and the carbonation level is spot on. Excellent brew.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a large frothy light brown head that was mostly lasting and produced good lacing. Average roasted coffee aroma. Medium body with a creamy texture. Heavy complex flavor with a good dry roasted finish of average duration.

(Bottle) Pours a black body with a small light brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, and raisins. Flavor of roasted malt and caramel with a dry finish.

Color is a seemingly deceptive black but tends to keep a dark brown like that of a brown beer bottle. Up to the light it gets a shadowed bloody reddish black. Cool and creepy. Great soft, creamy, and bubbly froth of mediumish size and is cocoa colored. Fades slowly to keep a good amount of its stature always present and the lacing coats the glass like thin frosting. Beautiful! Aroma is clean, darkly sweet, and lightly roasted as dark fruits make up the toppings with plum, date, banana skins, over ripe pear, and raisin and is drizzled in a caramel, chocolate/cocoa waffer-like dusting over the fruityness. Taste is well established in malty dark fruityness while maintaining a great chocolatey richness. Right from the get go it begins to unveil its velvety structure with warming chocolate and caramel that sit aside some very nice creamy banana. Tender little hints to pale figs, fresh dates, and smashed raisins make the edges. Dark toffee creates a nice swipe through the middle as it totally fills in with more, darker chocolate and a touch of iced coffee as it finishes slow and gradual. A wondeful finisher. Lots of left over flavors of the dark fruits mix intriguingly well with the chocolate tones. A lavishly yummy treat to behold. Mouthfeel is quite nice. Not too heavy set nor extremely thick. Velvety smoothness and silky richness is the setting stage. Letting it crawl slowly out over your palate as the flavors take to the play in full garb with the nice little toasty/roasty hints within the caramel, toffee, and chocolate. Has about a medium-full body with a delicate texture that grows as it warms. Wow, what a ride! And gone before you know it. The bigger 500ml bottle doesn’t last as it should. Quite drinkable, and thusly so by leaps and bounds. One to stock up on, keep around, drink lots of, whatever. Great stuff! Another big thanks to sammy for the trade!

Okocim Porter is a gem of a Baltic Porter. Dark brown body, bona fide chocolate malt fortitude. The alcohol content is well cloaked.

Murky brown pour with a ring of light brown lace. Good flavor of rich malt with chocolate. Pleasant flavor of rich, thick, round malt, a bit roasty, with chocolate, the finish is mildly bitter. The body is pleasantly thick and creamy and the carbonation is low. Not as complex as other baltic porters, like Zywiec, but the malt is so great that it compensates a lot, I love this beer.

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black porter with a medium dark head with pretty good retention. Aroma of rich chocolate with some roasted malt. Taste is sweeter then I remembered (I had this last time about 7-8 years ago) with lots of chocolate flavour. Very little bitterness or hops are noticeable and alcohol is well hidden. Rich creamy body make this quite enjoyable overall.