Junkyard Hatchet Jack Baltic Porter

 Junkyard Hatchet Jack  Baltic Porter.

6.8 % ABV, Junkyard Brewing, Moorhead, MN.

I've said it before and it bears repeating: If you brew a Baltic Porter, I will drink it. Especially if all that you mostly put out is NE IPAs and fruited sours. And that's why we are here doing this, drinking a Baltic Porter from Junkyard. 

Fairly black, thoroughly opaque, slim brown head. 

In the nose: Roasted malt, cocoa & coffee, bittersweet, intriguing. Offering all the hallmarks I'm looking for. 

In the mouth: Sweet dark malt hits first, rich and lovely, dark and delicious, ultimately turning dry. Coffee on top, bittersweet notes, then comes the cocoa. Some molasses. Never too sweet, never too anything. Full bodied, complex, dry. Wonderful beer that I thoroughly enjoyed. 

The color of this beer comes from the copious amounts of caramelized barley, not from the roasted malts. This gives it a less in your face body of a typical stout. The English yeast used for this beer imparts tones of chocolate covered red fruit. Enjoy!