Thisted Limfjords Porter/Double Brown Stout

Brewed by Thisted Bryghus
Style: Baltic Porter
Thisted, Denmark

Aroma of grapes, vinous chocolate, flowery figs and some more chocolate. Nice and fruity. Dark brown in color with a thin, brown head. Milk chocolate flavor with a touch of roast and smoke. Fruitiness carries over from the aroma into the finish. Medium to light body that is very drinkable. Interesting, thanks to MrFacto for sharing.

Bottle. very dark beer with beautiful creamy head. Aroma and flavour of chocolate and burned malt. Before I tasted Limfjords Porter i thought that portes was for old people, but this beer really opened up my eyes. This is a really great beer´.

Very dark color with a nice pale foam. A lot of chocolate and coffe combined with a burnt and slightly salty taste.

Bottle, shared by MrFacto - thanks, Matt! Barely translucent and mahogany in color with a glacial thin dust sheaf and cathartic tan doily rungs. Dark rustic cocoa beans roll in muddy mulch as the aromatic sequence begins, meeting up with tobacco seed, stork chocolate reisens, and prunes scattered amidst charcoal ash. Smoky tobacco prevails more in flavor with a bit of singed ash tree and charcoal traces. Dry, smoky flair weaves between milk chocolate and bittersweet bricks. Hint of sulfur arises but is bested by roasted pecans frolicking in cocoa dust. French roast grinds scatter with mocha beans and then get whammed by a hammer. Supple carbonation promotes the medium-body while a dry, roasted chocolate tract bows with coffee grinds at the curtain call, along with an encore of dark cigar wrappers and corresponding seeds.

Pre-Great Taste sampling at 1FastSti’s house

Opened as the night was winding down, this was a nice treat. I haven’t had very many baltic porters but it was esy to tell that some thought had been put into this one. Thanks to StewartOfGondor, who I believe was the one responsible for bringing it. If not, let me know who it was and I will update the rating.

Aroma / Appearance - Smoke, cocoa powder and ritz crackers were the main players in this nose. It looked almost like flat Pepsi, though there may have been something going on in the body. It was very dark soaking up all light, thus making it impossible to tell for sure. The lacing and head were both a dirty mocha color.

Flavor / Palate - Butter, coffee, smoke and butterscotch came across the first two sips. Next was a chocolately taste that reminded me of the ’high end’ chocolates you can buy at a grocery store; not quite boutique but not the waxy cheap stuff either. Very solid and enjoyable until the end which featured a sharp, dry finish.

Bottle thanks to bager. Darkest brown with a light brown fizzy, noisy head. Aromas are burnt chocolate, and coffee,. More of the same in the flavor, but with a decent hop bite and a nice dusty finish. A touch of alcohol come through after the swallow drying the tongue slightly. Very good. Thanks Lars for coming all the way From Denmark to hang with me and bring me this beer.

Bottle. Coffee, chocolate, hops: citrus, grass, brown-black, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, hint of salty, full body, creamy, average carbonation, medium finish and a little smoked in the flavour.

330ml bottle obtained in trades with <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?U target=blank>Dixen, <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?U target=blank>Engelsmann and <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?U target=blank>henrikb, thank you Christoffer, Martin and Henrik. Near black in colour, some deep ruby around the edges. Large long lasting beige coloured head, nice lacing. The aroma is of roasted malts, licorice, coffee and chocolate. The flavour is very roasty and burnt, creamy, some noticable alcohol, dark chocolate, espresso, quite sweet, Moderately bitter mouthfeel, large body, medium high carbonation. Finishes with a noticable alcohol warmth, very roasty. Its pretty sweet with lots of roasted malt bitterness and I really enjoyed it but it didn’t have the balance I was looking for.