Caldera Mogli

Brewed by Caldera Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Ashland, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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22oz bottle. Rating #38. Dark black with a little brown showing around the edges. Big milk chocolate aroma, some vanilla and a bit of booze. Mellow chocolate flavor with a slight roast in the finish, more vanilla as well. Really nice stuff. (2544)

Bottle. White Wax. Pours with a black hue and a tan head. Aromas are strongly creamy, huge vanilla, chocolate ice cream, cookie dough nose. Cocoa nibs, low roast, ice cream and barrel. Flavors are chocolatey and a bit chalky. Vanilla. Powdery, lots of cocoa, mild grainy. Medium carbonation, but feels a touch thin. Amazing aroma though!

19 oct 2012, bottle. Dark brown and clear. Nose is HUGE vanilla, lots if milk chocolate. Thin body and mildly fizzy. Big sweet vanilla and chocolate. Vanilla oak finish. Delicious. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottled@SBWF2012. Deep ambery brown colour, small brown head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, mild liquorice and toffee. Flavour is coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, toffee and some sweet maltyness. Also some slight vanillaish notes.

Sample from bottle. Dark brown pour, light tan head. Sweet chocolate, cookie dough, light vanilla, woody bourbon, and lots more cocoa. Decent, but simple and straight forward.

Bottle, 10/11/2012. Pours black, decent white head fades rather quickly, fine thick lacing. Aroma of moist, rich chocolate brownies, cocoa powder, smooth roasted coffee (with chocolate), with subtle vanilla and wood notes but the barrel is clearly not anywhere near center stage. Flavor very much follows suit- roasted malts with great chocolate character, a little chalky, mildly sweet but balanced. Medium light body, dry. Decent but lacking complexity.

Pitch black with a thin off-white head. A lot of rich bourbon and some oaky complexity. Chocolate and a lot of soft sweetness. Barrel flavour with some toasted malt through the middle. The bitter chocolate really picks up on the back - awesome stuff really.

Bottle @ SBWF’12

Pours pitch black with a foamy head. Aroma of roasty malts, hints of vanilla, chocolate, oak and bourbon. Taste is quite sweet with hints of vanilla, roasted malts, chocolate and bourbon. Finish of vanilla notes, sugary syrup, oak and bourbon. Okay, quite tasty imperial porter.

Sample @ Stockholm Beer & Whisky 2012. Pours very dark brown, almost black, with a small dark mocha head that slowly dissipates while leaving lots of trace on the glass. Smell is sweet with lots and lots of chocoalte combined with vanilla fudge, toffee, toasted malts, wood, roasted coconut, burnt cookies, brownies and chocolate pudding. Taste is sweet and bitter with roasted malts, cocoa powder, wood, dark roast coffee, brownies, milk chocolate, roasted coconut, resin, burnt cookies, vanilla fudge and hints of pine. Mouthfeel is smooth, round, tiny watery and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with roasted malts, bitter chocolate, sweetened dark roast coffee, wood and hints of lemon zest. Solid chocolate and vanilla bomb that I expected more from.

Tasted on 9/30/12 from a waxed and capped 650mL bomber bottle, thanks to Baker for the trade. Pours nearly black, dark brown with an average tan head that slowly recedes to thin, bubbly lace. The nose is straightforward dark roasted coffee and chocolate porter with plenty of vanilla and caramel bourbon. The flavor is very dry with tons of dark chocolate and coffee, finishing with some vanilla, caramel, and milk chocolate. The body is medium with average carbonation and a long bitter dark chocolate and vanilla bourbon finish.