Baltic Porter
Braybrooke Beer Co
- From:
- Braybrooke Beer Co
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 7.4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 21.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 24, 2021
- Added:
- May 05, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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We have collaborated with our good friends at Explore Chocolate and Jute Coffee for our strongest beer to date, a Baltic Porter.
We started with a classic porter malt bill, with loads of brown and black malt, and we added cocoa husks to the mash for an extra hit of chocolate flavour. Plenty of dark sugar and hops were added during the boil, and after our customary low and slow fermentation, we steeped jute Espresso coffee beans for an incredible coffee aroma.
We waited patiently for 12 looming weeks of maturation, and this is the end result: a dark, bold, rich beer, with complex flavours or coffee, toasted bread, molasses, and a long bitter chocolate finish. Try pairing it with tiramisu or ice cream. We hope you enjoy!
We started with a classic porter malt bill, with loads of brown and black malt, and we added cocoa husks to the mash for an extra hit of chocolate flavour. Plenty of dark sugar and hops were added during the boil, and after our customary low and slow fermentation, we steeped jute Espresso coffee beans for an incredible coffee aroma.
We waited patiently for 12 looming weeks of maturation, and this is the end result: a dark, bold, rich beer, with complex flavours or coffee, toasted bread, molasses, and a long bitter chocolate finish. Try pairing it with tiramisu or ice cream. We hope you enjoy!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Spike from England
4/5 rDev +16.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +16.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
330ml bottle. Very dark brown with a thin, off-white head. Heady aroma of freshly brewed, sweet coffee. Bitter chocolate and black americano flavours with a hot, alcoholic finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation, some slick mouthfeel and very bitter. A hot and heady Baltic porter. Both coffee and chocolate are there but not overwhelming. The malt bill does the hard yards and bittering hops finishes it off. Another good beer from this very classy brewery.
P.S. the label suggests this is a beer to have with tiramisu or ice cream but it’s way too strong and its alcohol comes through far too hot for pudding.
Jun 13, 2021P.S. the label suggests this is a beer to have with tiramisu or ice cream but it’s way too strong and its alcohol comes through far too hot for pudding.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
3.92/5 rDev +14%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +14%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Blind-tasted except for the beer's name, ABV% and brewery/country.
L- Superficially black but held in front of a halogen it is ultra-deep garnet-red. Pours with a good looking pillowy ultra-fine-bubble mid-tan head (holding very well @ +10mins later).
S- It has a hint of a charred note, nothing too shouty.
T- First sip of beer today and ... boof!... it's taste is waaay bigger than it's smell, in fact I'd term it pungent. Not just on the first sip either. It is seriously roasty+toasty with charred notes. The latter builds and I contemplate if it includes a coffee aspect or if it's like some ristretto (coffee blends) where it's sooo coffee'ish it's almost beyond tasting much like coffee anymore and is more of a dark roast beast of a brew instead... hmmm, I think it safe to say there is a coffee aspect here.
F- It's intensely pungent. A useful benchmark I have for such is that I realise there is no point me trying to rate any other new beers today, as after this my palate will need a couple of hours to settle down again. It's also just over on the slightly hoppy-dry side of neutral for hops, oh and there is no hint of sweet/rich/lactose or similar here at all - thank heavens.
O- I've only seen this brewery's beers for sale once before and it was in a very up-market and $$$ restaurant in London. I imagine the low-rise and understated bottles work well in that kind of establishment. - The beer overall seems well put together, nothing seems out of place, no aspects I don't like. But be aware it is notably deep/pungent and one for slow-sipping together with equally pungent food (curry!?) or by the fireplace after dinner...
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! => Ingredients include: 'sugar, cocoa husks, coffee...'
330ml bottle BB: 1/3/2022 Batch: 373. £4.10 Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
May 06, 2021L- Superficially black but held in front of a halogen it is ultra-deep garnet-red. Pours with a good looking pillowy ultra-fine-bubble mid-tan head (holding very well @ +10mins later).
S- It has a hint of a charred note, nothing too shouty.
T- First sip of beer today and ... boof!... it's taste is waaay bigger than it's smell, in fact I'd term it pungent. Not just on the first sip either. It is seriously roasty+toasty with charred notes. The latter builds and I contemplate if it includes a coffee aspect or if it's like some ristretto (coffee blends) where it's sooo coffee'ish it's almost beyond tasting much like coffee anymore and is more of a dark roast beast of a brew instead... hmmm, I think it safe to say there is a coffee aspect here.
F- It's intensely pungent. A useful benchmark I have for such is that I realise there is no point me trying to rate any other new beers today, as after this my palate will need a couple of hours to settle down again. It's also just over on the slightly hoppy-dry side of neutral for hops, oh and there is no hint of sweet/rich/lactose or similar here at all - thank heavens.
O- I've only seen this brewery's beers for sale once before and it was in a very up-market and $$$ restaurant in London. I imagine the low-rise and understated bottles work well in that kind of establishment. - The beer overall seems well put together, nothing seems out of place, no aspects I don't like. But be aware it is notably deep/pungent and one for slow-sipping together with equally pungent food (curry!?) or by the fireplace after dinner...
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! => Ingredients include: 'sugar, cocoa husks, coffee...'
330ml bottle BB: 1/3/2022 Batch: 373. £4.10 Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
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