Cisco Moor Porter

Brewed by Cisco Brewers
Style: Porter
Nantucket, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Cisco seems to have an overcarbonation problem. While this bottle wasn't a foamer, it seemed to explode once it hit the glass. It took me 20 minutes of pour a little, wait a little to get the head to subside enough to get the glass filled. Looking at the other reviews, this seems a common problem for them. Once the head was under control, this was a nice looking porter. The head had a meringue-like consistency and the body was a dark brown. The aroma has a bit of a harshness to it. It could be fusel alcohol, but it vaguely reminds me of creosote. Fairly hoppy. Beneath that is chocolate and scorched coffee. The flavor is much less harsh and actually quite drinkable, relying more on the chocolate flavors. There's a slight tartness up front. The mouthfeel is like a heavy soda with the high carbonation.

Malt, coffee, chocolate, and roast in the aroma. Taste starts sweet, then finishes with coffee and cocoa/chocolate bitterness. Mouthfeel is a little on the thin side, but all in all this is really, really good.

My wife brought this one back from a trip to Rochester. +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with an enormous foamy beige head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was dryish, meaty, toasty, woody and had light fruity hops and a hint of Baker’s chocolate. The flavor was dry, bitter and roasty with moderate smoke and wood and hints of vanilla and coffee. The finish was long, dry, bitter, roasty and smoky. Medium body. Eh.

pours a dark brown unclear, red tint, with a nice frothy light beige head, nice retention and lacing. roastiness, tons of coffee, bittering coffee, pine, resin, light molasses. somewhat lively, then settled, light to medium body, nice bittering coffee finish.

Bottle. Poured brown with a tan head that settle to a ring and left good lacing. Aroma of milk chocolate. The flavor found chocolate, roast, and hints of smoke and licorice. Medium body with a roast and cocoa aftertaste.

BOTTLE at Darkness Day 2011. Roasty nose and taste with chocolate and coffee.

Draft @ Monster B’s, Stamford, CT. This is a very silky feeling porter that provides a mouthfeel akin to a Guinness/soy milk hybrid. This beer has a splendid roasted barley flavor with a nice milk chocolate note. I would rate this beer even higher if it didn’t have a slight soapy aftertaste.

rec’d from secret santa (was a WL) This beer is very overated. notmal porter aroma and pour but there is no flavor. over carbonated with a thin chocolate cocoa taste but little else - thin and lacking in flavor - not bad flavor but absolutely nothin there

Bottle. Pours a dark brown, almost black, with a foamy tan head and rings of lacing. Aroma is coffee and chocolate. Palate is smooth, but a bit on the thin side. Dry too. Flavor is roasted malts, coffee and cocoa. A fairly typical porter. Good stuff.

22 ounce thanks to Ernesto987. Pours a big carbonated head. Big nose and taste of chocolate and coffee. Well done.

650 ml. bottle. Pours an exuberant, lasting, beige head, with extensive lacing, over a slightly hazy brown (SRM 35) body...nose is coffee, chocolate, light green grass....taste is coffee, light cocoa, finishing with a bitter bite.....mouth feel light, carbonation after initial burst, adds a fizzy sensation. This is obviously a Porter and meets the style quite well. It is not as smoothly balanced as the best, and the finishing bitterness is slightly harsh. BJCP 7/3/13/4/7