Port Brewing Midnight Expression Lager (Moon Lit Sessions)

Brewed by Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
Style: Schwarzbier
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Enjoyed at the Carnevale party. Pours dark with a thin head, almost non-exsistant. Aroma of malt, coffee, and toffee. Flavors of coffee and malt. Thin mouth feel. A differnt style for me. Nice

Bomber with mpersinger. Pours a rootbeer brown with tiny off-white head. Light bodied with a coffee and roasted grain aroma and flavor. Also hint of chocolate. Moderate co2 and hops level, finish kind of watery, but a nice brew.

I’m actually rating this against the style of American Dark Lager, I don’t think that it is a schwartzbier. Just because it’s a really dark lager doesn’t mean it’s a schwartzbier. Aroma- Burnt roastiness, smells like a campfire. I even got the impression of smoked meat. Appearance- Murky, Dark Chocolate color, no clarity... perhaps due to the bottle conditioning. Very little dark tan head is appropriate for style. Taste- No sweetness and no esters, both qualities are appropriate for style. Roasty, burnt flavors dominate, BJCP says that this is a defect for the style, but I kind of like it. Low sorness, moderate hop bitterness. Low hop flavor. Palate is light in body, heavy on the carbonation. There is a very little astringency. It works for the style. Overall impression- I enjoyed this beer because you don’t see too many dark american lagers. If you made this with ale yeast instead of lager, it would be an awesome stout. The roastiness is a bit out of place, but it works for me because it is different. It tastes like they just heaped the roasted malt in the beer. For the price, it’s worth checking out.

Pours jet black with a thick brown head. Smells of roasted malt and coffee. The coffee flavor and bitterness lingers for a little bit. Pretty good. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a black color with a dark tan head.Got the aroma of roasted malts and coffee.The flavor is of roasted malts,coffee and rye bread.The body is medium and the finnish is real smooth.Overall a fine brew.

22oz bottle. Pours thick and completely opaque with large creamy brown head; could be mistaken for a stout. Aroma is coffee with some roasty malts. Flavor is subsequently nutty with a slight sweetness and dry finish. Slight coffee.

A very interesting beer. Pours pitch freaking black with a mocha head that dissipates most of the way and leaves little lacing. Aroma, I swear to god... soy sauce. I had one other person confirm this. The head gives off a strange, soy saucey aroma. But that goes away as the head dissipates. The rest of the nose is sweet, almost chocolaty malt. Taste is very malty, with dark flavors found in stouts and porters. But then the beer cleans out, and ends slightly bitter and dry as a lager should. Cool beer. I like it.

22 poured into a half yard. Huge rocky mocha head, black beer. Smooth and creamy roast aroma. Deep and luscious, medium bodied, bitter malts. Lots o’ flavor in a small attractive package (i.e. low ABV.) The sun has just set and there’s very little surf here, so I’m going to go sit under the full moon and contemplate life, the universe and beer.

near black in appearance. smooth and very drinkable. lots of roasty malts and just enough hops to notice. nice lager. it’s a toss up between this and hot rocks.

Pours a black with a nice lite inch high beige head. The nose is initially minerally and copper penny. As it opens coffee, black forest cake and subtle warm spices. The pallet is quit lite but with plenty of flavor and complexity. Mineral, bitterness, coffee, followed by an astringent bitterness and finishes with a cocoa nib and bitter chocolate. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone