Baltic Stout
Rügener Insel-Brauerei

 

Copenhagen 4/7 2024. 33 cl paper wrapped bottle from Rewe, Süderquerweg, Hamburg. An old owl on the wrapping supplemented with bragging about receiving a lot of London Wolds Best Beer Awards.

Pours opaque dark brown with small beige head. Stable. Settles as a thin rim of foam running along the side of the glass.

Aroma is fairly intense with a roasted almost burnt odor of dark and sweet malts mingling with an earthy scent. Dark hard roasted malts, toffee and caramel. A bit of brown sugar, peat and mold.

Medium strong carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, lively and tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a moderately strong sourish bitterness. Aftertaste is sourish with a sweet undertone. Lingers for a short while. Finish is a bit watery with a touch of chocolate.

Nice nose but a tad thin in flavor.

Look: black with a medium dark brown head

Smell: malt, chocolate, roasted coffee notes

Taste: mellow chocolate, nice warm malt and coffee

Feel: smooth

 

2018-06-28
330ml bottle served in a big tulip. I don't see a date on it. Given to me by a friend who brought it from Germany.

Pours black with a medium to small head and a medium to high amount of carbonation. Smell is anise and yeast.

Taste is anise and coffee. Heavily roasted malts.

Mouthfeel is moderately thick, overall not bad.

Edit: Lowering taste and overall scores because as it warmed up, I became overwhelmed by smoky flavors.

 

Pours a deep brown to black coloration with a thick, creamy, beige head. Smells of roasted malts and coffee. Tastes mildly of roasted malts and coffee with a hint of caramel sweetness and a very slight, dry hoppiness. There's also a subtle tartness to it, with a hint of lactose. Once again this brewery proves that it does not know their beer styles. This is described as an Imperial Stout on the back label, which it is clearly not as it totally lacks the ABV, full-bodyness and flavour intensity for that. It's really more of a Dry or Milk Stout, and a passable one, I guess, but nothing to get excited about.

 

Not spectacular but a good stout

 

 

 

Dark brown color with tan head. Aroma is quite weird. Roasted malt, coffee but also some mineral, rocky notes. Taste has roasted malt and coffee, quite bitter roasted malts on the finish. Medium to light body with low carbonation. Really weird aroma but it doesn’t taste bad.

 

Not sure why the discrepancy in styles between who's adding this brewery's beer and what is listed on the bottle, but this one is off as well. Listed here as a Milk/Sweet Stout, but the bottle labels it on the back as a 'British-Style Imperial Stout.'

Not quite black, but dark, and with some slight clarity around the edges. Thin, beige/light brown head.
I think the aroma is best described as roasted sweetness - semi-sweet chocolate and very lightly roasted coffee beans. Also seems to have a noticeable hoppiness to it, giving it some earthy character. Pretty weak in regard to strength of aromas.
Taste is similar to the nose, with a little liquorice and anise in addition. Considerably astringent in the middle and end. Earthy as well.
The mouthfeel is probably the biggest weakness about this one. Overly carbonated, medium-bodied with a bittersweet astringency that is unpleasant.
Overall, I was hoping for better. If for nothing else, they should make this style their flagship beer and master it, given their proximity to the Baltic Sea.

L:
-pours the darkest of brown with no light coming through and with a medium, frothy, khaki head
S:
-nutty,roasty,lactic,chocolate,slightly acidic,earthy,licorish
T:
-lactose,nutty,cinnamon,licorish
-finishes dry
F:
-light to medium carbonation
-light to medium body
-underlying,long-lingering alcohol warmth
O:
Way too sweet.Pretty bad overall