Cambridge Moonshine Nightwatch Porter

Brewed by Cambridge Moonshine
Style: Porter
Cambridge, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Cask (CWAF2012)
Quoth Anna: Very dark. Persistent head. Hint of coffee in the aroma. Taste has a little sweet coffee. Dry roasted finish. Something almost buttery but not quite. Quoth Phil: Well, I know that this is a blend of an old bitter with a new dark beer, so that’s where the slightly buttery not comes from - it’s probably oxygen getting into the bitter, and creating some diacetyl or related compound. But biochemistry aside, this is a very nice traditional porter.

Bottle. Pours as black as a stout. Beautiful head and conditioning with a lovely creamy head. Dark malty scent. Taste is really more like a stout than a porter. Some very light fruitiness but mostly dark malts with bitter finish. Very gentle sweetness. Very nice.

On cask at the 26th Annual Folk Festival in Ely. A black beer with a thin light tan head. Aroma of caramel and toffee. Caramel and coffee grounds flavours with some earthy notes. A little dry. Quite good. Not sure I got peach or apricot though...

I had this a few days ago handpulled in the Cambridge Blue. Can’t remember all the details of the aroma etc, but it was a decent beer. I just wanted to add my rating because nobody so far had written that it tastes quite clearly of peaches (or is it apricot?), with a bit of bitterness and roasty caramel as well, but mostly peach (...apricot??).

lovely coffee/choco nose, nice weight, nice malt, nice conditioning, some fruit with dark malt & choco, my slight worry is half way through the bottle the flavours started souring almost as if the beer had been sitting around for a few days, thats why I’ve scored it down a little. Maybe it was a slight bottling problem but this is well worth drinking especially i would think if you find it on draught.

Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest 07. Dark brown with malty head. Malty sweet fruity beer, coffee and chicory notes, maybe a touch of cough mixture too. A little syrupy, but overall not bad, soft and sweet on the finish.

Cask Stillage from the outside cellar at the Prince Of Wales, Foxfield 25/11/2006 Slightly rich aroma. Dark coloured fruity and a little rich on the palate. Some dryness in a crisp and bitter lasting finish.

cask pbf’05 I think this might be a good example of a nice porter. Good balance between roasted malt, hops and not too sweet.

Cask@Reading BF. Malty. Quite roasty and chcolately, with a slightly unwelcomed rubbery/cosmetic type flavour. Not bad, but the slightly burnt rubber character did distract from the flavour.

Chestnut colour with a reddish tint - not that dark for a porter. Lots of roasty malt and hints of coffee, but there’s something a bit odd - maybe burnt rubber - in the background. Medium bodied, smooth and easy drinking. More malt than hop in evidence. Decent enough, but nothing to get too excited about. Cask (gravity dispense), Reading Beer Festival 2005.