Zywiec Porter

Brewed by Bracki Browar Zamkowy (Zywiec Heineken)
Style: Baltic Porter
Cieszyn, Poland

Bottle in Wroclaw. Pretty good stuff. Quite a burnt flavour, chocolately, quite heavy. According to my shoddy handwriting, there is either an aftertaste of pear, or the aftertaste is poor.

Bottled at RBESG-06, GTN. Dark brown, filtered porter with a tan head. Sweet and roasted nose with alcohol, chocolate, coffee and some licorice. Nice. The flavor and finish has too much alcohol, but after all it weighs in at 9.5%, so it is expected. The flavor is roasted and with coffee as well. Full body and a coffee-bitter finish. (060826)

coffee colored porterness same same same. smells like chocolate with hints of vanilla almost like a rootbeer float. taste like roasted chocolate nice and frothy and smooth nice bitterness whith a wheaty aftertaste. cant taste the alcohol at all. i wish this beer had a dick it could stick in me

500 oz bottle via slob(thanks!). Pours a black color with a mohageny tint.. Aroma of toasted vanilla, cherries, chocolate and plums. Wow, this is good. An complex. Vanilla, toffee, roasted chocolate and coffee with a wonderful roasted coffee finish. Bittersweet licorice aftertaste. The roasted malts play off and counterbalance the sweetness perfectly. Full bodied. Now this is what a truely great BALTIC porter should taste like.

KP’s Fest. Pours a light black deep ruby color and a thin lasting head. Nutty roasty aroma with hints of dried fruits and chocolate malts. Lightly oxidized slight soy hints, more toffee, caramel, chocolate and nuts. Mouthfeel is pretty smooth but finishes with a bit of astringency.

Deep, translucent and blackish brown in color with a heavily dusted tan ice sheaf for the head and tough, blanketing lace. Black licorice, port, anise, tar, ash and burnt molasses all sonorously sing unto the nose. The direction it’s going is brilliant. Gritty, blackened caramel comes in the aromatic backend, and there’s a touch of simmered and burnt burgundy. Flavor comes in full stream and is less burnt than its preceding nostril indicators. Sandy sensations and caramel rippling through lactic milk chocolate envelop both mocha beans and prunes under one candy shell. Thickens and excretes the darker nature of the baltics. Gritty but steady, and a fuller-bodied stream. Port and anise team with cold pressed, greasy, South American cocoa beans, leading into an earthy, dirty, sweaty, subterranean plum flavor and texture. Cigarette ashes hug the corners of the mouth, wrapping the tongue in a cinder rocked leaf enclosure and a bourbon, caramel, dark chocolate syncrocity. Thanks for the bottle, tpkenned! It’s beers like these that make rating worthwhile.

[2nd Low Countries RateBeer meeting] Aroma is a bit weak, has roasted coffee malts. Clear, brown-black coloured with a light brown head. Taste is sweet, caramel and coffee malty. Nice body.

[Bottle at RBESG] Lots of roasted notes, chocolate, smooth complex, rummy, ripe fruit. full bodied, dry, excellent.