Big Sky Bobos Robust Porter

Brewed by Big Sky Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Missoula, Montana USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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This is a wow! beer. Latherous lasting head, thick and chewy with giant black cocoa and coffee bean roasted to oblivion. This brew is thick enogh to choke a Chihuahua. Little Bobo’s got it going on here. He should have been a yeti.

Aroma is dark malts, grains, chocolate and in general a very good porter aroma. The flavor is chocolate, fruit and some acidity in the finish. Very good porter, well made and easy to drink.

Big sky has another great beer here. The roast, of course is tasty and uniqe. Very dark color. save this beer for a rainy day.

sixer for $8.50 1/22/2010. nice thick black version of typical ruby brown porter color. it has some orange tints around the edges and an orange tinted hot cocoa colored head. initial blast of burnt raisins in the face take me to a baltic induced haze!!!... deeper in are aromas of highly roasted grain with a slight ashiness, chocolate, caramel, earthy wood, a little coffee or toasted nuttiness and the good old cream cheese-like porter sourness. the flavor is similar to the aroma... add in molasses, a touch of savory smoke and a black raisin-like fruity sourness on a crisp dry finish to make it happen... it reminds me a lot of what papago’s el robusto used to taste like... the medium body is crisp, clean and vibrant yet soft and lux as it is sloshed about. very nice. i quite enjoy this and could drink a lot of it... especially for the price. 8/5/8/5/17/4.3

Poured from the bottle. Nice head, good lacing. Aroma is nice of coffee. Flavor is of coffee, and some chocolate. Palate is thinner. Overall a good beer!

That smells AWSOME! Coco in my coffee, coffe in my beer and smokey and dark, you can tell this is going to be good. Hops and malt balance is very good. Good brown head on pour, very dark, but only a little lacing, very fine. wow, this really has a depth of flavour. Sweet and malty, you get hints of coffee and malt and hops bitterness all in there in just the right amount, it’s almost hard to say when one flavour stops and another begins. Extremely smooth, there could even be another % or two with the malt and hop base (this cold also be the beginning of a dominating Imperial Stout). This one is soo good I don’t want to eat my lunch until I finish drinking it cuz it will ruin the flavour. As you drink on it the hops start to stand out just slightly.

Bottle Pours a very dark brown/black with a modest and quickly fading rich milk-chocolate colored head. Chocolaty mocha aroma and a rich bitter chocolate flavor. Not sure I would call this "Generously" hopped but nicely bittered (and not in a piney/citrusy way) and big on the dark malts. That sour slant that most porters have is more subtle here, which I like. On the sweet side a bit. I think of Big Sky as sort of a "second division" brewer but this little gem gives me hope. A pleasant surprise and quite delicious.

Bottle. I was surprised by this one, in a great way. Poured a dark brown almost black pour with a creamy tan head, that left tons of lacing on the side of the glass as it went. Aroma was roasted malts, chocolate, dark milk chocolate and coffee. Flavor was much of the same. A bitter hops in the finish, with burnt notes. Dry finish. A very good creamy milky beer.

~Big chocolate roasty, coffee aroma with toffee and bread. Light earthy spicy hop aroma in background. Smells wonderful. ~Pours black with small creamy lasting brown head. ~Light charred burnt flavor with roasty coffee, bitter dark chocolate, some caramel and bready sweetness. Well balanced. ~Medium bodied medium CO2, Dry roasty finish that makes you want more. ~Shit I bought this for a party and only saved one for myself. This is great brew! I should have brought it all home with me. Glad I discovered this gem!

Bobo’s Robust Porter--Limited Release--2010 12 oz. Bottle. 6.20% ABV. 32 IBU’s. (4.0 / 5.0) Thin lace fizzy espresso tan head. Thick dark pour. Clear opaque dark black color. Huge sweet chocolate aroma. Mild hop fruit hint front. Crusty mild creamy sweet robust chocolate black bread mild espresso fruit zesty rich Porter body. Dry mild hop spice end. Rich. Sampled 6/1/2010. 6-Pack $8.59.