Cisco Moor Porter

Brewed by Cisco Brewers
Style: Porter
Nantucket, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Date: October 22, 2011 Mode: Bottle Source: Darkness Day. Full description not available as I sampled way too many beers during Darkness Day!

Bottle. Very dark pour with mnimal head. Big roasty nose and taste with chocolate and coffee. Wonderful.

A nice, if simple, imperial porter. Nose of chocolates and sweet malts. Taste of chocolate, very little malt, very little hops. Almost seems like a great chocolate soda. Fairly simple flavor profile, easy to drink. Fairly simple smooth palate, like a porter; again easy to drink. Almost black, huge brown head.

Second time I’ve had this beer, a couple of years after the first. The first one was a 750ml, and this one was a bomber. Unfortunately, both were infected, as many Cisco brews seem to be. The pour gives a dark mahogany colored body that shines clear at the edges. A thick, billowing head of frothed up micro bubbles tells the tale of infection right off the bat. Hard, dense patches of lace cling hard to the glass. The nose is based in dark barley roast, with notes of blackened caramel and scorched coffee. Unfortunately, there’s a good deal of earthy brett that doesn’t really work in this brew, and the occasional waft of rubber or band-aid mucks things up. Flavors follow suit, if not coming across even more plasticy, artificial, and dirty. There are plenty of nice barley roast, bitter chocolate and coffee notes lying beneath, and the dryness is fairly nice, but the infection-induced flaws are too egregious to overlook. The palate is expectedly dry and overly carbonated, stinging the dried out tongue with intense fizziness. In the end, the two brews, both infected, consumed years apart indicate that known quality control issues have gone unaddressed. I can’t help but wonder if Cisco’s recent foray into bretty, sour beers is more of a "if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em" tactic than an intentional brewery direction.

1/24/2010 A recent edition to the portfolio of beer available in NH. Pours a pretty solid dark brown/black color with a creamy tan head that dissipates quickly to a ring on the top. Smells of chocolate syrup or light milk chocolate right up front. Slight bit of coffee, caramel, butterscotch and a faint non-descript dark fruit in there as well. Taste is slightly acridic with more of the chocolate coffee and butterscotch tones. Light taste of dark fruits then a roasty lingering finish. I find this to be very sweet. The very light carbonation accentuates the sweetness for me. Creamy almost oily mouthfeel with a medium to thick body. I thought this one was ok, but the flavors seem out of harmony if that makes any sense. Maybe some more carbonation would help. I may try this again because its not half bad and maybe I’m having a bad palette day.

Tons of roasted coffee on the nose, with a little bit of chocolate thrown in. The looks are good, even if the head seems a little too boisterous for comfort. I dig the flavor, mainly dark chocolate with a sweet dried fruit undercurrent, and a modestly bitter fade. Seems like this bottle could be just as easily labeled "stout," but the contents inside are delicious either way. (2008)

Almost black pour, light tan head, good retention. Aroma is slight dark chocolate, light smoke. Very light carbonation, medium body, alcohol is well hidden, sweet up front leading to a lingering bitterness. Not bad, but not amazing.

Bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, brown, mostly diminishing. Body is dark brown to black. Aroma is moderately malty (dark chocolate, roasted grain), lightly to moderately hoppy (flowers, apricot), with notes of vanilla, chalk. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. A pretty straightforward, easy-going rendition. Smells decent, tastes fine, maybe a little watery, but overall there’s just nothing too special about it.

Bomber poured a clear dark redish brown with a small lasting tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, bitter chocolate, coffee, light vanila and light carmel. Palate was light to medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of bitter chocolate, vanilla, coffee and roasted malt with a smooth lingering roasty chocolate finish.

Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and weak coffee aroma with some hoppy hints. Roasted malty chocolate and coffee flavor with hoppy hints. Has a roasted malty bitter chocolate finish with hints of coffee in the aftertaste.