Friend Dandy Baltic Porter
Village Brewery

Friend Dandy Baltic PorterFriend Dandy Baltic Porter
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From:
Village Brewery
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Baltic Porter
ABV:
10%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
4.02 | pDev: 2.99%
Reviews:
4
Ratings:
8
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 29, 2019
Added:
Feb 12, 2016
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by joemcgrath27:
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Rated by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)

3.94/5  rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Aug 09, 2016
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Reviewed by Beersnake from California

4.1/5  rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from fridge temp. Pours a dark black with little head. Nose is toffee, dark fruit, chocolate, lactose. Taste is cherry, chocolate, toffee, vanilla, and raisin. Mouthfeel is thick and creamy. Overall, a really nice Baltic porter.
Mar 29, 2019
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Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)

3.88/5  rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Another bottle kicking around for a while (2 years +?). Pours out a dark brown cola colour with hints of burgundy at edges and scant tannish head. Aroma dark fruits - plum, cherry, some chocolate and touch of licorice. Taste slightly sweet with a touch of medicinal note early - cherry, licorice -but as warmed the chocolate and hints of coffee show up. 10% well hidden and in fact surprisingly a little thin bodied. Quite nice if not exceptional.
Mar 11, 2019
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Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)

4.22/5  rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
650ml bomber poured into bomber 7/4/16

A black liquid with a deep cola edge, finger of dense mocha foam only manages to leave a couple patches on the way down

S licorice, plum and char hit me first, chocolate syrup, sour cherry, some hard to place spice, coco powder, a hint of coffee grounds, more sour dark fruit, earthy hops, an little booze but a forgivable amount for 10%, smells like a Baltic Porter should

T some molasses gets added to the mix, earthy, sour dark fruit, a bit of a lactose milky stout thing going on but I could be crazy, crazy or not this ones tasty

M silky, has some weight, low carbonation but not far from style, oily on the palate, lips stick together, booze is well hidden and a coco, char finish just keeps going

O this local collaboration hit the style bang on, lots of dark roast, sweet but not out of control, sour dark fruity notes, well concealed booze, well done boys

Seems true to style s fr as I can tell, perhaps the strongest lager brewed in Alberta? I was surprised by how much I liked this one, best local I've had in a while
Apr 08, 2016
 
Rated: 3.87 by RandyFlameThrower from Canada (AB)

Mar 09, 2016
 
Rated: 4.16 by Slongie from Canada (AB)

Feb 28, 2016
 
Rated: 4.03 by Corson from Canada (AB)

Feb 28, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.99/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
650ml bottle, a collaboration between Calgary craft brewers (and apparent friendsters) Village and Dandy.

This beer pours a solid black abyss, but for some pervasive basal cola edges, and one chubby-ass finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of melting snow rime lace around the glass as it swiftly sinks away.

It smells of grainy caramel malt, prominent dark orchard fruit (plum, cherry, and rather ripened red apples), black licorice, muddled bittersweet chocolate, some indistinct savoury spice - maybe some cinnamon, maybe some cardamom - weak noble hops, and a touch of perfumed and estery alcohol. The taste is fairly sweet and bready caramel/toffee malt, a candy-bar ready chocolate essence, more heady anise root, subtle cafe-au-lait, dampened sugary spice, some blended black 'n bruised fruitiness, a still hard to pin down earthy and leafy hoppiness, and more sidling but not quite yet alighting booze astringency.

The carbonation is fairly understated in its barely perceptible at times frothiness, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and actually pretty smooth, with a growing inherent creaminess as things warm (if at the same time a bit heat-affected). It finishes sweet, but duly moderated by a certain leafy and herbal bitterness, and of course, that dangling threat of alcohol ingress.

Overall, a pleasantly amped-up version of a, well, already amped-up style - the fruitiness and cocoa dominating, along with that licorice side player, and only a suggestion of lactic intransigence present in those fleeting coffee notes. Anyways, a crazily easy brew to drink, even at that nicely rounded 10 points of ABV - yeah, with friends like these, I think we Albertan craft brew aficionados are in good hands moving forward.
Feb 14, 2016
Friend Dandy Baltic Porter from Village Brewery
Beer rating: 4.02 out of 5 with 8 ratings