Thisted Limfjords Porter/Double Brown Stout

Brewed by Thisted Bryghus
Style: Baltic Porter
Thisted, Denmark

Pours black with a thick tan head. Aroma is maple, malt, and a slight roasted coffee. Nice malty flavor with some coffee. Good mouthfeel and hoppiness without being over-bearing. Good finish.

Got in my secret santa package. Pours pretty dark not pitch black though with a small head. Aroma was roasty, chocolate and some spices and maybe a little smoke. Flavor was roasty and pretty smooth. Really nice palate on this one even thought the body is not to big. Tastey beer.

Bottle Deep, black body. Brown, frothy/creamy head. Aroma of coffee, port, red grapes, red wine, wood ... very nice and subtle. Moderately bitter, lightly sweet flavour. Not bad, but rather normal flavour. Aroma is much better than the flavour.

01.07.09 dated bottle. Pours black with thin mahogany highlights when held to light and a creamy, 1 finger tan head that fades to a thick skim and ring fairly quick and holds there, leaving some parse lacing. Aroma is roast, bitter chocolate, smoke, burning wet leaves, leathery tannin notes, and some slight basement and wet forest funk. More vinous qualities come out as it warms. Flavor is roast, smoke, oak, dry licorice notes, char, some dried dark fruit notes, bittersweet chocolate and what seems like an errant pine note near the finish. Finishes roast, char, wet leaves, charred wood, bitter hops, and bitter dark chocolate. Palate is medium bodied, dry throughout, with a light-yet pretty sharp carbonation and a dry, bordering on astringent finish. This stuff took a bit to grow on me, not so much that it improves as it warms, but that I really had to get my head around what was going on here. This is a very interesting brew, it reminds me of a good aged porter or stout gone right, still I found some aromas and flavors to be a little at odds with me loving this brew to death. Certainly I am picking nits here, as this is a fantastic brew, that just made it all the more frustrating as I think with a little more sweetness and a little less tannins(?) and astringency this could be mindblowing. I will definitely have to pick this up again when I can.

On draft at the new Pizzeria Paradiso in Dupont Circle, the recommended finishing beer from Greg the beer manager. Very black, with a brown head. Aroma of milk chocolate. Nice flavor of roasted coffee with a smoky edge. Subtle and complex. Find this one.

11.2oz bottle. Poured a dark black with brown edges and a larger sized off white head. Aromas of chocolate caramel, some dark fruits, smoke, and licorice. Tastes of some roastiness, chocolate, coffee, licorice, and very light dark fruits. Lacing left on the glass.

pours black, nearly stout-like. nose is heavy smoke and leather and sweet dark molasses. mouthfeel is smooth and relatively thick. heavy taste of smoke and burnt wood with a hint of sweet fruit. can’t really make out the licorice as one would expect. exceptional porter, one of the better ones out there.

Bottle at PIB. Poured a deep, dark brown with a medium sized tan head. Aroma is smoky, chocolate, dark fruit, molasses. Flavor is smoke, leather, dark fruit, chocolate, very roasty. Mouthfeel is thick and creamy and very enjoyable. Would love to try more Baltic Porters of this caliber.