Baltic Porters: Where's the Love?!

My apologies for the confusion here. You did indeed state "Robust Porter" in your above post but I was thinking Baltic Porter.

Cheers!

 

Ha ah ok, makes sense now. I thought you were just adding that Baltic Porter is not on their website.

Well, if you do happen to see the Robust Porter, it's a good one too!

 

Just saw it as a sixpack on a local shelf. Canned in Dec.

 

You were at the liquor store at 10 am on a Monday?

I mean, no judgement here, there's never a bad time to party.

 

Nooo... what are you kiddin' me? It was closer to 9:10 or so.

Well, in my world:
BEER SHOPPING/JUST LOOKIN' ≠ PARTYING
...not to say it is not one of my few enjoyable winter past-times.

 

Mats Gustafsson (saxophone player and legendary record collector) once said that even if you don't have a nickel to your name, you can learn a lot from visiting a record store & digging around. I think the same is true of a liquor store...who knows what will hit your radar, whether you're buying or not??

 

I'm not much of a reviewer, but I've had it and it's awesome. I'm a big fan of the style but haven't had one in a while. This did not disappoint. Highly drinkable and highly recommended.

 

Smutty’s Baltic was great! And at a fantastic price point, drank my last one a year ago...

 

I love Baltic Porter. That's the difficulty of the Hazy IPA and Sour Beer craze. It's pushing a lot of dark beer style out. BP and Schwarzbier are good examples. I can't think of a widely available BP that I've had, but we have two good local examples here in Atlanta in Arches Brewing Five Week Sail and Gate City Brewing Terminus.

 

Exactly, try finding a good Schwarzbier these days. A fantastic dark beer style.

 

In the winter I love getting me a $2-3 bottle of Zwyiec porter that's like 10% and will warm you up but, now sure that's available everywhere. Still not my favorite style at all.

 

Someone mentioned it earlier but Tired Hands makes King Royal baltic porter. They've released it at least three separate times. It is absolutely fantastic. Always a must buy for me. Also RIP to Victory Baltic Thunder. An absolutely fantastic beer that used to be in 22oz bottles but was pulled a number of years ago. Making this in four packs as a seasonal should be done immediately. Its wine barrel aged compatriot, Red Thunder, was absolutely hot trash.

 

In Swedish porter news a brewery in Gothenburg is trying to revive a yeast from a bottle of Swedish brewed porter from 1820. The bottle is in the hands of a brewery museum and about a third of the contents are still left in the bottle. They are being assisted in their effort by people from a Swedish yeast manufacturer. Sounds interesting.


From what I can gather the label says "Prof å porter från Lorentska porterbryggeriet år 1820" ("Sample of porter from the Lorentska porter brewery year 1820").

Lorentska porterbryggeriet was the precursor of the Carnegie brewery, it was purchased by David Carnegie in 1836.

 

We just rated a Baltic Porter from Buoy Beer Co. out of Astoria, OR. It's a good, solid offering. Astoria is a working seaport with the brewery itself built out over the water. We figure they should know something about a beer named after a sea. We bought it it in early Feb of this year at the Costco in Warrenton, which is next to Astoria. Buoy's distro is pretty close to home, but you might be able to find it in Seattle and Portland, besides around Astoria itself.

 

Respect!

 

Tasty as is most of this series.

 

The problem is with the modern beer terms usage.
When Baltc Porters (ie intended for export to the Baltic states) first appeared, British brewing was in two separate industries, ale and beer. Porter/Stout were beers not Ales.
Some Porters were brewed overseas, often using a bottom fermenting yeast. These were still beers. And only beers which were stored (lagered) could be termed lagers.
Bottom fermenting does not define a lager, there are top fermented lagers.
So a bottom fermented Porter would not be classed as a lager at the time, simply a beer.

 

How have you not gone insane by now?

 

Had a great one by Grains of Wrath called Into The Void earlier this week. Always loved the style and want to make one at work again soon.