Ølfabrikken Porter

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 9

Wow!! Pours a dark chocolatey looking head. VERY dark brew as a whole. Flavor is INTENSE. Says its a porter, but might suggest its closer to the flavors of a Russian Imperial Stout. Reminds me of Old Rasputin if it was more on the bitter side. Flavors of coffee left lingering on the tongue and mouth in the aftertaste. There was a thick layer of yeast sludge on the bottom of the bottle so I’m wondering if the body would’ve been even thicker had I known to swirl the bottle a little bit. Nice mouth feel nonetheless. Wonder what this tastes like at a warmer are temp. I consumed it at slightly higher than fridge temp. Aroma is clean. Not sure its THE most enjoyable porter I’ve ever had, but it certainly has classic attributes. Their label indicates it is supposed to be a very sweet stout, but I’ve had others that were clearly sweeter. Should try it once in your life. Too bad is $10/bottle at Ledger’s in Berkeley!!

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

0.5L bottle from Beer World of Largo, FL. Wow, poured viscous burnt motor oil with mocha head. Nice aroma with dark fruit mixed with toffee, chocolate, coffee, burnt malts and sweet molasses. As the beer warmed the aroma became more noticeable an inviting with a bigger burnt malt tone. The taste starts with a velvety mouth feel. The flavor is full and rich. I taste some light-dark fruitiness along with sweet molasses first. Then the malts pounce and stomp out the fruitiness with burnt malts, chocolate malts, toffee, coffee and more burnt malts. Just delicious. This is a bottle conditioned beer but I see no need to cellar it much. It seems pretty darn awesome right now. It leaves a very tasty toffee and burnt malt flavor in the after taste.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

22oz bottle from wavers1, thanks
Appearance: Pours a thick black with a very nice thick brown head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Dried cocoa, dark malts and fruit
Taste: Silky mouthfeel. Heavily roasted malts, dark chocolate, brown sugar, coffee and some light bitterness in the finish
Wow, not what I expected. This is a great porter, wish I had some ice cream to go along with this!

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle of joy: Poured a deep dark black reminded me of road crew work, with a creamy brown head. The aroma was deep rich dark fruit with roasted malt. The flavor is bitter fruit at first but leads directly into that rich roasted malt taste. Its worth every point of the rating.

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

I must have had a bad bottle because this Porter didn;t wow me like it wowed others. In fact, I thought it was average at best as far as beer goes, and below average for a porter. The pour is nice dark brown (I matched it against some coal I have and it certainly failed to be jet black) with a brown head. The aroma was weak chocolate, weak coffee, and noticeable alcohol (a no-no in a 7.5% beer). Flavour is all over the place, a little coffee, a little chocolate, a little licorice, and a little vanilla, but nothing stood out as being supreme.

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

Nice. Pours a nice dark brown black with a generous head, much more so than expected for the style. Nice roasted malt aroma. Mouthfeel is smooooth. Flavor is as expected for a decent porter and this is an all around very good brew.

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

Wish list brew from john. Loved the frosted and surprisingly choppy aroma. Licorice, chocolate, smoke...lots going on, and all very good. But not Wow good, so methinks 64th is a bit on the high side.

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

Very good Porter with a big ashy, roasted malt character. This beer isn’t too big or dramatic, but it nails the porter flavor profile (ok, maybe it’s somewhat stout-ish) and hits appropriately hard for the Baltic sub-style. The beer pours black and opaque. The edges barely show a sliver of dark brown. The head is a relatively dark tan-brown that dissipates a bit more rapidly than I’d like. The aroma is primarily sweet and roasty. There’s a touch of burnt molasses and cigar/tobacco flavor. The flavor has a big ashy component with a lot of roasted malt. The finish might have a touch of hops, but it’s hard to tell under all that malt. The malt is really the star and brings flavors of licorice, burnt caramel and molasses in addition to the roast. The feel is nice and creamy but gets a tad astringent for me. I’m not sure if the comparison is apt, but I recently had Beer Here’s Mørke Pumpernickel Porter made by a former Ølfabrikken brewer, and it’s probably the only porter I prefer to this one. The mouthfeel really pushes the Beer Here beer over the top. At any rate, they’re both great beers.

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

Picked up a few of these again at my local beerstore. 22 oz bombers, poured one into a tall dunkel glass. Big coffee aroma with some chocolate smoke and bourbonish waifs. Increases as it warms. Coats the mouth with a sweet, oily texture. Big flavor. Roasted coffee to start, chocolate sweet in the middle, and a bread-like favor on the backend. Notes of brown sugar, bourbon, and dark chocolate builds as I drink this. A magnificent porter. One of my all time favorites.

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

Aromas of high quality chocolate, expresso, dark fruits like plum,raisins, ect, with some alcohol. Jet black body with some floaters, and a dark tan head, that leaves good lace. Good thick mouthfeel, a little oily even. Robust flavors of smoke, expresso, brown sugar, alcohol and fruit. Overall a excellent beer, it has many stout like qualities, a beer thats worth seeking out.