Carnegie Porter 3,5%
Carlsberg Sverige
- From:
- Carlsberg Sverige
- Sweden
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
Ranked #196 - ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- 74
Ranked #38,797 - Avg:
- 2.94 | pDev: 20.75%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 12
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 15, 2024
- Added:
- Mar 03, 2005
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
74
Okay
74
Okay
A weaker variant of the Carnegie Porter, sold at grocery stores in Sweden. According to the brewery, this beer is bottom fermented.
NB: This beer is not sold outside of Sweden.
NB: This beer is not sold outside of Sweden.
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Reviewed by Efraim_Barkbit from Sweden
4.03/5 rDev +37.1%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.03/5 rDev +37.1%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
0.5l bottle into IKEA 35cl "Pokal" glassware.
If you look at distribution and availability alone, this is the most essential swedish beer.
Very mindful, very demure. Eiskonfekt and dark roasted coffebeans. Boiled cream. Slight brown suger and caramel. Fresh juniper berries. Damp moss. Mouthfeel like superb quality springwater filtered through cracked granite rock. Fades away with a very subtle aftertaste, like pleasant clean gravel after a early spring shower.
Sep 15, 2024If you look at distribution and availability alone, this is the most essential swedish beer.
Very mindful, very demure. Eiskonfekt and dark roasted coffebeans. Boiled cream. Slight brown suger and caramel. Fresh juniper berries. Damp moss. Mouthfeel like superb quality springwater filtered through cracked granite rock. Fades away with a very subtle aftertaste, like pleasant clean gravel after a early spring shower.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
2.8/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.8/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
July 2003: (Bottle, in Sweden). Remarkably different from the stronger version - slightly lighter colour, weaker aroma, considerably thinner body, flavour seems sweeter, lacks bitterness. Of course it's drinkable - but the full strength version is the way to go!
Jul 01, 2023
Reviewed by Alex-Alkis from Sweden
3.67/5 rDev +24.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +24.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
An honest porter from Gothenburg with a mellow flavor. Among the best beers with this alcohol percentage that can be found in grocery stores.
It has a decent body and character with a pleasant taste of coffee beans and walnuts in it. Moreover a bit rusty taste beyond that.
Jun 17, 2014It has a decent body and character with a pleasant taste of coffee beans and walnuts in it. Moreover a bit rusty taste beyond that.
Reviewed by eriktoyra from Sweden
2.2/5 rDev -25.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.2/5 rDev -25.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
A: Dark brown liquid. The tanned head is about half a finger high at first but dissolves almost instantly.
S: Smells a bit skunky, a bit like muddy water. It also has faint tones of roasted malts and some sour cherries. The smells are very faint in general.
T: Very watery. I have a really hard time finding any kind of characteristics. Some very faint tones of dark malts, maybe some sweetness and wet corrugated cardboards.
M: Watery at best. Strong carbonation.
O: A below par beer even when compared to other low ABV beers sold in our grocery stores here in Sweden. It works very well in a porter stew though.
Oct 24, 2012S: Smells a bit skunky, a bit like muddy water. It also has faint tones of roasted malts and some sour cherries. The smells are very faint in general.
T: Very watery. I have a really hard time finding any kind of characteristics. Some very faint tones of dark malts, maybe some sweetness and wet corrugated cardboards.
M: Watery at best. Strong carbonation.
O: A below par beer even when compared to other low ABV beers sold in our grocery stores here in Sweden. It works very well in a porter stew though.
Reviewed by jrallen34 from Illinois
1.61/5 rDev -45.2%
look: 1 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1
1.61/5 rDev -45.2%
look: 1 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1
50cl bottle into a tulip.
Pours a medium brown with lots of amber highlights, a dead head, only a little light tan, but gone right away, an tell its really watery right away...The aroma is terrible no porter notes at all, just light skunk and alcohol, only the faintest hints of roast coffee...The taste is dead, no taste at all, no skunk but no taste.
SKIP
Jul 11, 2010Pours a medium brown with lots of amber highlights, a dead head, only a little light tan, but gone right away, an tell its really watery right away...The aroma is terrible no porter notes at all, just light skunk and alcohol, only the faintest hints of roast coffee...The taste is dead, no taste at all, no skunk but no taste.
SKIP
Reviewed by lstokes from Illinois
2.41/5 rDev -18%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.41/5 rDev -18%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
We picked this up at a supermarket in Stockholm and drank it later that night, and were disappointed--it smells like burnt fruit, even sour like rotting fruit, and the taste can't do too much to recover from that.
There's flashes of hop bitterness and of coffee/chocolate, but overall it's a very sweet, weak, watered down porter. Try again, Carlsberg.
Feb 05, 2010There's flashes of hop bitterness and of coffee/chocolate, but overall it's a very sweet, weak, watered down porter. Try again, Carlsberg.
Reviewed by darkmaven from Louisiana
3/5 rDev +2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev +2%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2004 VINTAGE
This Nordic brew is a vintage ale, 2004 specifically, and is made to age. On the website, they suggest up to 10 years. Well, I don't have 5 more years to sit and tap my fingers, so 1/2 time is going to have to do.
The nose of this Baltic-style porter is rich and sweet, with definite notes of maple syrup and dark caramel. The hop bitterness is all but gone, and the mouthfeel is smooth and balanced. The finish is a bit too sweet for my taste, and I think it needs the bitter aspect that has vanished over the years. I can only imagine that the sweetness will intensify in the next 5 years. That doesn't mean I don't want to try a 10 year or older! I think I would be an interesting tasting, a vertical, of a series of vintage ales including this one. An idea for my future!
Dec 12, 2009This Nordic brew is a vintage ale, 2004 specifically, and is made to age. On the website, they suggest up to 10 years. Well, I don't have 5 more years to sit and tap my fingers, so 1/2 time is going to have to do.
The nose of this Baltic-style porter is rich and sweet, with definite notes of maple syrup and dark caramel. The hop bitterness is all but gone, and the mouthfeel is smooth and balanced. The finish is a bit too sweet for my taste, and I think it needs the bitter aspect that has vanished over the years. I can only imagine that the sweetness will intensify in the next 5 years. That doesn't mean I don't want to try a 10 year or older! I think I would be an interesting tasting, a vertical, of a series of vintage ales including this one. An idea for my future!
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