Jack's Abby Framinghammer Baltic Porter
Big, Bold, and Black. This unusual lager style has many similarities to Imperial Stouts. A lengthy conditioning period creates a silky smooth chocolatey mouth feel enhanced by the use of oats and brown sugar. Noticeable sweetness gets balanced by roasted malt and hop bitterness. At 10% alcohol by volume, this beer is sure to keep you warm on a cold winter night.
3.8
184 reviews
Framingham, United States
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Bottle. Darkest brown, creamy brown head. Chocolate milkshake, light roast, slightly rural, a bit licorice, noticable soy sauce. Medium body, dry salty, Sugar, oatmeal, caramel, sweet english licorice. Milkshake finish. Sticky aftertaste.
Bottle. Darkest brown color with beige head. Aroma is chocolate, nougat, soy sauce, liquorice. Taste is chocolate, nougat, umami, earthy, liquorice, milk chocolate, roast. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Solid but not super-balanced. It's quite rough in fact.
Now in a 12 oz can, pours black with thick, dense head. Aroma is chocolate, roast and molasses. Taste is heavy dark chocolate and roast, warming to a sweet coffee and slightly vanilla taste. Finish is silky smooth cocoa. While the barrel-aged variants get more attention, this is a great beer in its own right.
Draught @ CASK Pub & Kitchen, 6 Charlwood Street, Pimlico, Greater London, England SW1V 2EE.
[ As Jack's Abby Framinghammer Baltic Porter ].
Clear dark brown colour with a large, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, sweet malt, smooth, sweet chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, roasted bitter, chocolate, dark malt, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20151207]
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Poured from cellared 2016 bottle cola brown black with a nice frothy mocha head. Aromas of roasted chocolate brown sugar. Taste is silky smooth luscious mouth feel chocolate brown sugar all balanced perfectly.
New Beer Distributors, NYC bottle: somehow I have had a number of these barrel-aged versions but never got around to the original. In any case pours pretty black with a beige head. Aroma is molasses, ok quality dark roast coffee, general maltiness. Body is smooth and alcohol is well covered. It is kind of sweet but far from cloying. Body is not too heavy. Kind of chocolate and molasses aftertaste. Good.
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Tuckaway Tavern and Butchery. Appearance is almost opaque black--very dark brown with red with light source directly behind--with light sparkle at the edge of the glass, cascading effervescence like a nitro beer on initial pour, 3-finger width foamy light brown head with fair retention and fair soapy lacing. Aroma is rich roasted malts with coffee, dark chocolate and licorice. Taste is strong roasted malts, coffee, chocolate and dark fruits--very imperial stout-like as described. Palate is full bodied with smooth, creamy texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste with dryness representative of the style. Overall, this is one helluva beer.
A great beer all-around, a smooth and flavorful booming porter with incredibly high drinkability for the ABV. I’m surprised this chocolatey, smooth monster doesn’t get more love these days.
RBSG. Pours a pitch black color with a small tan head. A big roasty licorice nose. Sweet, vanilla, toffee, very sweet licorice, cocoa, caramel. Solid.
Bottle at RBSG, courtesy of Steve. Dark brown pour, small sustained ring of head. Mildly sweet aroma, cola, coffee, taste adds a bit of heat, more sweetness, chocolate.
12oz bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. Nose is molasses roast malts some chocolate. Taste is more of the sweet malts ash roast chocolate.
LCI. Uit de fles geschonken. Prachtige Baltic Porter, aromas van geroosterde mout en gedroogd fruit. Dit komt ook in de smaak terug met wat koffie en chocola erbij.
Draft at Sturbridge Seafood. Pours black with a khaki head. Leaves trace lacing in the glass. Solid caramel notes on the nose and tongue. Lots of licorice notes on the tongue as well. Hides it’s booze well. Nice.
Bottle from AJ’s Beer Warehouse. Pours black with a little tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, and some anise.
Ar: Toasty, melanoidin-rich malts; raisin and a touch of banana; molasses. Ap: Deep brown, opaque; small light-tan head with low retention, leaves a band of finely bubbled foam aroudn the edge and a nebulous haze across the surface. T: Rich, semi-sweet molasses and toffee; raisin, hints of cocoa, some cherry; medium bitterness with a herbal hop flavor; clean, warming alcohol mingles with the rich melanoidin malts, tasting like oatmeal raisin cookies; more toffee and raisin, plus a bit of char, on the finish. P: Medium-full body with medium-high carbonation; finish is medium. O: Lucious and delicious; a big baltic porter packed with complex and rich malt and caramel flavors; the fruit flavors and alcohol warmth are in great balance, neither becoming overwhelming. decadent from start to finish.
Pours a three finger tan head that fades slowly to a thin layer leaving some lace. Black color, no highlights. Medium carbonation and medium bodied. Burnt malt and chocolate nose and flavor is sugary malt but nearly balanced with hop bitterness, nice Baltic porter. Pricey at $9.95 for a 500ml bottle from Colonial Spirits Acton, Ma.
12 ounce bottle. Pours a nearly opaque black color with a frothy tan head. Aroma has a touch of coffee and burnt wood. Flavor is smooth roasted malt, with sweet chocolate and charcoal. Though there is a smoothness to the is, the alcohol hits you quickly. All the sweetness and complexity of a Baltic Porter, and then some. Big, bold and black, as advertised.
Bottle courtesy of GenDV110k+OT, thanks Donnie! Pokal. Deep brown, near black, with small beige head. A: roasted a,t, dark chocolate, earth, wood. Nice. T: rich roasted and sweet malts, molasses, smoke, earth, dark fruit. Fairly rich. Quite good.
Well, pardon me, but I’m on a review toot and this is my 8th full pour attempt of the day. I enjoy drinking Zywiec porter, an authentic Baltic, and priced locally at $2.50 for 22 oz. Great deal for a very good brew. Und so, the comparisons begin to this Massachusetts made, slightly more expensive copy of the style. It is also a good one.
Actually, at this point in the evening, I’m too aswim to form a clear judgement and articulate it. So I will plagiarize from BA... remember, it’s not plagiarism if you cite your source, as Melania Trump failed to do when she recited Michelle Obama’s speech. "Undated bottle at 42 degrees into a hand washed and dried JK snifter, allowed to warm to 50 degrees. I’d have allowed it to warm more, but I was thirstyyyyy.
Aroma – Roasted malt
Head large (Maximum seven cm, aggressive pour), light brown, frothy, diminishing to a three mm frothy ring and partial frothy layer, with some residual foam lacing as the head recedes
Lacing excellent – wide irregular bands of frothy bubbles, mostly tiny but with some small and medium present
Body dark brown/black, opaque
Flavor – mostly roasted malt with a hint of chocolate; no obvious hops, no alcohol, no diacetyl
Palate medium, almost creamy, soft carbonation
A very nice Baltic Porter, slightly on the watery side, lacking the flavor complexity of many others. Hop flavor is absent, true of many other Baltic Porters. This one is so easy drinking that it is almost sessionable, until the 10% alcohol slaps you behind the ear with a sock filled with buckshot. Think I’ll have another." Kudos to Ozzylizard, who has unwittingly helped me out. Here I differ since I don’t have another and it is time for bed.
Darkest brown in color with a ring of tan foam. Baker’s chocolate , roast, and a faint sugar sweetness. Flavor is similar but better - so very balanced with delicious chocolate and roast malt dominating but never dry or acidic. Smooth, creamy mouthfeel and very smooth finish. Well done.
Pours black, ring of head. Aroma is ash, cocoa, and candy sugar. Silky, full body. Sweet. Some bitterness on the finish, but not all that much.
Utterly black with no head. Lovely chocolate aroma. Rich and smooth flavor of coffee-candy with a rich roasted undertone and hints of cocoa. Silky smooth mouthfeel.
Dark brown, a little bubbly. Tan head. Mocha and nutty aroma. Body fairly light, unexpected. Some carbonation. Deep roasty malt flavor, cola, mildly sweet, drier finish. Interesting, the flavors themselves are good not great but complex yet light and drinkable for ABV.
Draft at Milk and Hops-Chelsea.
Dark brown, creamy light brown head, glass coating lace. Boozy, dark malt aroma. Chocolate and licorice. Smooth, rich mouthfeel.
On draft. This is one seriously well-executed beer. It’s packed full of flavors and ingredients, but it manages to stay worryingly balanced and restrained. Even with a high ABV and (I’m guessing) a huge malt bill, it drinks light and crisp. There’s a good amount of light chocolate and a bit of toast flavors, but it’s still deceptively easy drinking, with some more bitterness showing as it warms up. This is stupidly good.
Bottle. Pours black with tan head. Aroma is chocolate and malt. Taste is sweet chocolate malt with a malty chocolate finish. Good but not memorable.
Bottle. Pours dark brown, with a light brown head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malt, and oats. Flavor is dominated by chocolate, but there’s also malt, along with a bit of hops and alcohol. Medium to heavy body, with a long, chocolatey aftertaste.
Piwo, którego butelką 0.33 spokojnie mógłbym się podzielić, bo jest bardzo obfite w smak i aromat, ale jednak nie czuję, żeby wypicie całej butelki było męczarnią. Bardzo fajny Porter Bałtycki. Potężny zapach, słodkość, karmel, trochę ciemnych owoców, czekolady i kawy, lekkie mam wrażenie orzechy, praktycznie zero paloności w zapachu. W smaku równie bogate, bardzo pełne, naprawdę niemało ciała, bardzo gładkie. W smaku czuć więcej spalenizny, troszeczkę popiołu, ale poza tym fajna czekolada, owoce ciemne, kawowa lekko końcówka. Szkoda tylko, że nad Atlantykiem robią takie Portery Bałtyckie, a nie nad Bałtykiem :P
Bottle. Nose oc chocolate, umami, touch of soy and smoke. Black with lace. Sweet, rich malt flavor, chocolate and cocoa, great body. Loved it.
Bottle shared, thanks! Very dark brown with a beige head. Aroma of malt upfront with chocolate, roast and light coffee notes. Flavour is Above moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Above medium bodied with soft carbonation.