Smuttynose Baltic Porter

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Thanks to my brother for this!!! Pours a deep rich brown color with light brown head. Aroma is very fruity with dark fruit like plum and raisin as well as light anise notes becoming apparent. Taste is light chocolate, dark fruit, and caramel malt. Alcohol is well hidden and the beer finishes smooth and creamy. Good stuff.

Bottle. Thick black with a dense head on the pour. Big sweetness, raisins, brick roast, that sort of stuff in the aroma in the aroma. Huge body, tons of sweet, lots of coal. Like a bad child on christmas. Quite a tasty brew.

(22oz bottle, vintage 2008) Large brown head atop solid black body. Aroma is medium sweet, espresso, chocolate, cream. Taste is moderately sweet, rich, chococoffee, some plum, caramel, faint smoke. Some alcohol warming. Smooth, full body with a lovely creaminess and some syrupiness. What a great beer!

Bottle courtesy Degarth. Pours black with a one finger tan head that fades leaving some lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, and dark fruit. Taste is the same as aroma with a hint of caramel. Medium full mouthfeel with a mild to moderate amount of bitterness with warm but never hot alcohol. Very good.

22oz bottle. Pours pitch black in color with full brown head. Aroma sweet, dark chocolate and coffee. Taste dark chocolate and roasted coffee with dark chocolate bitter finish.

22oz. Looks great - dark brown, opaque, pour with a dense tan head. Robust coffee and cocoa aroma, smells like it’s going to be tannic. Bitter almonds and dark rummy type fruit. Prevalent hop component also with alcohol. Big flavor - immediately a bit too sweet for me, but very nice. Lingering bitter finish. Licorice jelly bean like flavor. Chocolate in there too. Massively fruity - plums, dates. Big bodied. Nicely brewed.

Bomber in trade with doublejay-pm94. Yeah, this is what all big dark beers aspire to be. This is a luciously smooth, big silky brew. Nose is of ripe fruit and ground up walnuts. The moderate pour generates a heatly rolicking head that tastes great wven when you are slurping it up so it doesn’t stain the precious counter top. Head settles fast as do oily legs. Body is big and full...like godzilla after pillaging Tokyo. A big hit of chocolate malts is accented with coffee in the slightest amount. this is huge since I have been raving on the over use of coffee as an ingredient as of late. It actually works in this beer. A gentle bozziness complimented by a final hint of sweet rasins mixd with sun dried tomatoes eminates from the center of the mouthfeel that leads you stumbling for more in the finish of tingly coffee as the end. A fine, fine brew.

Bottle: Near opaque pour with only a hint of light coming through at the edges. It also has a nice deep brown head. Charred aroma, along with an odd "sour milk" character- burnt dark fruits, lightly smoky/tobacco, a bit odd in the nose. The mouthfeel is creamy and mildly carbonated. Nice and dense. Lots of burnt character- dark fruits upfront, leading to more earthy character. Nice smooth booziness is present- dark chocolate liqueur balanced by some dark piny notes. Peppery and boozy overall with a balancing piny, espresso roast in the finish. A solid Baltic Porter.