Sunday, February 10, 2008

Smuttynose Baltic Porter

I picked this up the other day, having forgotten that I generally don't like Baltic Porters all that much. It pours out extremely dark, and has a vigorous brown head to it. It's really bitter - like I can't entirely tell if it's hop bitterness or just a lot of black patent malt, or both. That, and the bitterness drowns out a lot of other things about the beer. It has a fairly nice aroma, and is fairly smooth and a little bit sweet, once you get past that initial wallop of bitterness. Overall, it's ok, but I'm not sure it's anything i'm going to pick up again any time soon.


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