BBA Conductor's Special Reserve Porter
Deeds Brewing Co
- From:
- Deeds Brewing Co
- Australia
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.17 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 25, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 25, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.17/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.17/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
On-draught @ the brewery in Melbourne:
12% - 12.5% ABV (their menu inconsistently lists both). Bourbon barrel aged version of their smokey Baltic Porter. Aged 6 months "in oak." Additions of coffee, lactose, and vanilla.
Rich and chewy, with heavy dark malt sweetness, tobacco, specialty chocolate malt, and faint vanilla bean coupled with shallow barrel-derived vanillin.
Not getting any rich white oak, barrel sugars, actual whiskey notes, actual bourbon notes save for vanillin, or anything other than that I'd readily credit to the barrel. This would likely benefit from more time in barrels and/or a better bourbon barrel selection.
Complex but reticent. It's unusual a beer this rich and full-bodied is so damned shallow and somewhat muted.
Carbonation is near perfect, which is to say it's aptly low. Heavy, smooth. Not sludgy or a chore to drink like many of its peers.
Not smokey at all. I get zero smoked malt flavours...not sure why they bill it as a smokey Baltic Porter.
Yeast contributes little. Lager cleanliness is evident, but I don't know that this benefits from that yeast choice. Tastes like they tried to force a Baltic Porter into a bourbon barrel aged imperial stout's clothing, and the fit isn't all that great.
I've had better and I've had worse. I'm in the camp of letting Baltic Porters be Baltic Porters instead of dollar store imperial stouts/porters, but maybe I'm just a sucker for tradition.
C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
Jan 25, 202312% - 12.5% ABV (their menu inconsistently lists both). Bourbon barrel aged version of their smokey Baltic Porter. Aged 6 months "in oak." Additions of coffee, lactose, and vanilla.
Rich and chewy, with heavy dark malt sweetness, tobacco, specialty chocolate malt, and faint vanilla bean coupled with shallow barrel-derived vanillin.
Not getting any rich white oak, barrel sugars, actual whiskey notes, actual bourbon notes save for vanillin, or anything other than that I'd readily credit to the barrel. This would likely benefit from more time in barrels and/or a better bourbon barrel selection.
Complex but reticent. It's unusual a beer this rich and full-bodied is so damned shallow and somewhat muted.
Carbonation is near perfect, which is to say it's aptly low. Heavy, smooth. Not sludgy or a chore to drink like many of its peers.
Not smokey at all. I get zero smoked malt flavours...not sure why they bill it as a smokey Baltic Porter.
Yeast contributes little. Lager cleanliness is evident, but I don't know that this benefits from that yeast choice. Tastes like they tried to force a Baltic Porter into a bourbon barrel aged imperial stout's clothing, and the fit isn't all that great.
I've had better and I've had worse. I'm in the camp of letting Baltic Porters be Baltic Porters instead of dollar store imperial stouts/porters, but maybe I'm just a sucker for tradition.
C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
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