Baltic Anomaly
New Holland Brewing Company

 

 

 

Pours a dark espresso color. Smells of raisin bread, vanilla, and herbal honey. Tastes of caramel, vanilla, honey and raisins. A light sweetness, not over done by the honey addition. Medium bodied with mild drying.

 

great tasting porter with a hint of honey - pours good head taste stays with you

From the 12 oz bottle in a snifter. This nice little porter pours a deep
dark brown with mahogany highlights and a thick big bubbled head of
dissipating foam that settles to a big bubbled ring, thin light pool, and
displays some nice sudsy lacing. Nose of raisin bread, toffee, vanilla,
and subtle sweet herbal notes. Flavors follow the nose with a floral
honey heavy flavor awash over light toffee and raisin bread with mild
herbal hops on the rear. Decent mouth feel; medium body, light carbonation,
and a sweet honey touched finish that is subtly dry.

A decent porter that hits the mark for a light twist on an old classic.

Cheers

 

 

12 ounce bottle into a snifter. Bottled 8/7/17, had 9/26/17.

Pours near black, opaque, with a half inch head and some loose, soapy lacing. Smells of malt, yeast, and chocolate. Also light aromas of vanilla, honey, raisins, coffee. A little bready. The taste is similar- chocolate, malt- lighter than expected, some caramel, light vanilla and raisins. A light sweetness. Smooth, a little dry, a decent but lighter body for the style, appropriately carbonated.

Not bad, but no real intensity in aroma or flavor.

 

 

Dark brown to black with ruby highlights ans a 3 finger brown head that gradually recedes to nothing.

Aroma of dark chocolate malts, honey and a hint of vanilla. Somewhat woody and smokey.

Rich in taste and rather sweet. Lightly charred wood, a bit more subtle than the aroma. Rather strong taste of alcohol upfront, but this mellows later.

Medium full in body. Medium carbonation, yet silky at the same time. A little cloying at first.

Very good, especially after you get a ways into it. Rich overall, and sweet the way I like my porters

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a brown some highlights around the edges, thumb sized tan head leaves some spotty lace.

Aroma is roasted notes, charred caramel, honey light earthy smokey notes. For a big Baltic Porter a little subdued.

Taste is a little better roasted notes charred caramel, some good earthy notes hints of chocolate and honey sweetness. Finish little bite of earthy hops to keep it from being to sweet.

Mouthfeel is big medium more porter like then stout so nice job there.

Overall eh not a bad beer not something to go searching for either. At least it is porter like instead of stout like some Baltic Porters shot for.