Baltic Porter
Cannery Brewing Company
- From:
- Cannery Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 5.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 09, 2018
- Added:
- Feb 23, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
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Reviewed by Kobold from Canada (BC)
3.62/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Look: Alpha morning without interrupting light.
Smell: Oddly absent in the chalice: a dozen fishhooks with traces and broken bits of metal . From the vessel anguished cries of bean-deprived molasses, petrified toffee, sticky cherry coffee, cigarillo sighs, and stale chocolate kisses. A suspicious alley dweller mumbles midnight pleasure inexatitudes on the fringes of my nostrils.
Taste: Slivers of dried wood agitate the imagination. Something of the primitive aquatic slithers among the tongue and molars. Burnt herbs fall apart in the mouth to dust the path of the arrival of the Prince of Alcoholic Cola.
Overall: Neither King nor Emperor of the Fortified Black Continuum, yet not without potential.
Jul 01, 2016Smell: Oddly absent in the chalice: a dozen fishhooks with traces and broken bits of metal . From the vessel anguished cries of bean-deprived molasses, petrified toffee, sticky cherry coffee, cigarillo sighs, and stale chocolate kisses. A suspicious alley dweller mumbles midnight pleasure inexatitudes on the fringes of my nostrils.
Taste: Slivers of dried wood agitate the imagination. Something of the primitive aquatic slithers among the tongue and molars. Burnt herbs fall apart in the mouth to dust the path of the arrival of the Prince of Alcoholic Cola.
Overall: Neither King nor Emperor of the Fortified Black Continuum, yet not without potential.
Rated by Ivanhoes_Backpack from Canada (NB)
4.09/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
This was a gold medal winner at the Canadian Brewing Awards 2014. In my books, it gets an award just for its name: Kiek in de Kok. Ha!
Feb 28, 2015
Reviewed by PaulietheBrit from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev -1%
4/5 rDev -1%
deep brown pour with a fingering of mocha colored head leaving sparse lacing.
caramel, brown sugar, some dark fruit
getting coffee first, prune.... some hop.
really nice mouth feel with scarce carbonation
smooth, creamy, easy going Baltic. Yum.
Sep 07, 2014caramel, brown sugar, some dark fruit
getting coffee first, prune.... some hop.
really nice mouth feel with scarce carbonation
smooth, creamy, easy going Baltic. Yum.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.96/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Cannery Brewing 'Baltic Porter' @ 8.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $7.20
A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small tan head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-like a baltic porter should , slight sweetness
T-intial taste is sweet , big boozey mouthfeel
MF-ok/good carbonation , big full body
Ov-ok/good beer , decent Baltic porter
prost LampertLand
May 23, 2014A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small tan head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-like a baltic porter should , slight sweetness
T-intial taste is sweet , big boozey mouthfeel
MF-ok/good carbonation , big full body
Ov-ok/good beer , decent Baltic porter
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by Derek from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Deep mahogany with a light tan head, some retention that just begins to lace.
S: Very fruity, with brown sugar and a bit of booze.
T: It's actually leaning towards a doppelbock, but with a bit more roasted malt and a lot more hops. Roasted malt has hints of chocolate, roasted nut and demerara. Lots of dark fruit, solid bitterness with some floral hopping.
M: Moderate body is quite smooth.
O: A really nice drinker, though certainly more malt/melanoidin character than most Baltics. I like it.
Mar 07, 2014S: Very fruity, with brown sugar and a bit of booze.
T: It's actually leaning towards a doppelbock, but with a bit more roasted malt and a lot more hops. Roasted malt has hints of chocolate, roasted nut and demerara. Lots of dark fruit, solid bitterness with some floral hopping.
M: Moderate body is quite smooth.
O: A really nice drinker, though certainly more malt/melanoidin character than most Baltics. I like it.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.03/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
650ml bottle, nice little story about the watchtower on the label, tying it into Estonian brewing history.
This beer pours a clear, very dark bronze-highlighted brown hue, with three fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some inkblot lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of biscuity, bready caramel malt, white toast, moderately tart black fruit esters, subtle black licorice, earthy, leafy hops, and a touch of alcohol warming. The taste is more biscuity grainy malt, sticky caramel/toffee, softly sour plum, prune, and blackberry fruit, a hint of well-sweetened coffee, and slightly musty, earthy hops. A very humble booze astringency emerges as room temperature sets in.
The carbonation is quite mild, and barely raises a frothy hackle, the body a sturdy medium-heavy weight, quite smooth, and even a little creamy. It finishes well off-dry, the bready caramel malt still jacked up, while the hops trail off to nil, and an APB is finally put out on the whereabouts of the 8 points of booze.
An easy-drinking, lightly fruity version of the style, the inherent alcohol, as oft-mentioned, quite well integrated. There's not much more to say about the brew - it's simple, it's enjoyable, and it's well-made. What I'm still distracted by is the in-depth historical references here, as opposed to the usually more straight-forward Cannery labels - not a bad thing, just different.
Feb 23, 2014This beer pours a clear, very dark bronze-highlighted brown hue, with three fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some inkblot lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of biscuity, bready caramel malt, white toast, moderately tart black fruit esters, subtle black licorice, earthy, leafy hops, and a touch of alcohol warming. The taste is more biscuity grainy malt, sticky caramel/toffee, softly sour plum, prune, and blackberry fruit, a hint of well-sweetened coffee, and slightly musty, earthy hops. A very humble booze astringency emerges as room temperature sets in.
The carbonation is quite mild, and barely raises a frothy hackle, the body a sturdy medium-heavy weight, quite smooth, and even a little creamy. It finishes well off-dry, the bready caramel malt still jacked up, while the hops trail off to nil, and an APB is finally put out on the whereabouts of the 8 points of booze.
An easy-drinking, lightly fruity version of the style, the inherent alcohol, as oft-mentioned, quite well integrated. There's not much more to say about the brew - it's simple, it's enjoyable, and it's well-made. What I'm still distracted by is the in-depth historical references here, as opposed to the usually more straight-forward Cannery labels - not a bad thing, just different.
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