Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

I picked this beer up from the Wine Gourmet in Roanoke, VA. This was a GREAT porter. The body was perfect (thinner than a stout but not watery). The flavor was of coffee, roasted malts, and some chocolate. A very good beer from another outstanding California brewery.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Aroma is rich and smoky with tones of quality roast coffee and molasses and just a hint of unsweetened chocolate. It pours a nearly black opaque sable with a fairly thick and somewhat persistent light tan head. Mouth-filling taste has flavors of good coffee and molasses with hints of licorice and toffee. Texture is exceptionally smooth with a good firm tingle. Definitely work catching.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A solid all-around porter. Chocolate malt stands out here with a creamy texture. Flavors are full and rich. Mild hops. Still prefer something like an Anchor Porter over this though, especially for the price. Good to try, but not sure it would be a regular for me.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Jet blackness in color. A big light tan head rises robustly above. It settles eventually inti a moderate ringlet. Coffee dominates the nose. Biitter chocolates joins in in the tasting. Some subtle grassiness. Some caramel malt. Moderate bodied, slick on the tongue.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Pours slightly hazy dark reddish brown color with a nice 2 finger dense khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Some decent lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, coffee, bread, nuttiness, light citrus, and herbal hops. Nice and very well balanced aromas with good strength. Taste of chocolate, caramel, biscuit, roasted malt, nuttiness, slight coffee, and herbal hops. Light coffee bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of chocolate, nuttiness, biscuit, roasted malt, caramel, coffee, and herbal hops on the finish for a bit. Fairly robust flavor profile, with very nice balance of flavor. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly creamy and smooth mouthfeel. Alcohol is nicely hidden with hardly any warming on the finish noticed. Very easy to drink.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottled (at some pub during the pub crawls in Copenhagen (Maybe Örsted?)). Very deep ambery brown colour with mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, some smoked wood, quite strong roasted coffee as well as some mild caramel malty notes. Mild fruityness also lurking. Flavour is quite much the same in a rather big way, even though in a good balance. Has some late hoppyness. Quite dry.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

no way in hell there are 58 porters better than this. the roasted malty aroma was fantastic...reminded me of the better porters, as well as GD Hibernation, a favorite old ale. silky smooth mouthfeel, medium bodied, with a flavor that nearly matches the aroma. just excellent, and one of my new favorite porters.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours out in an almost black colour topped with a thick off-white head. Rather clean yet powerful aroma of roasted malts and cocoa with hints of flowers and lemon-zest. Medium-bodied with rich roasted notes of black coffee, nougat, flowers, resin and lemon-zest. Long crisp bitter finish of roasted malts, cocoa and aromatic citric fruits. Great porter!

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

I found it strange that when I looked to see if I've reviewed Black Marlin before, I've rated the beer on oak, but not the non-oaked version. So during a visit with sister and her family, my brother-in-law brought out a bottle so I was down with a new beer I haven't had!

The beer pours out a dark chocolate brown, nearly black color with some ruby red highlights around the edges. Aroma mostly consisted of roasted malts, dark chocolate, lightly floral hops and a spot of nuttyness. The flavor had lots of dry dark choclate flavor, with some roasted malts there as well. Not really complex, but tasty and easy to consume a pint or three.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

KSBF 08 - Dark brown color. Roasted aroma, faint. Big chocolate malt flavor with lots of roast. Rich and full with a dry finish. Hey, not horrible! I'd drink it again at the right price.