Rogue Mocha Porter

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Porter
Newport, Oregon USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

My favorite beer. There’s really nothing else to say.

This is one of my favorite porters. I stopped buying it because the carbonation left me with exploding beers. I’ve tried at least 10 six packs and there’s always at least 2 beers that completly explode. I don’t appreciate cleaning up half a beer off my floor. Especially this fine of a brew. What a waste. Has anyone else had this problem? Let me know... no I’m not shaking up the bottles..LOL

I am fortunate to have a very fresh sixer of this in bottles. This brew pours dark muddy black with a full enough body to rival any stout. The huge rocky head is brown with excellent lacing, and was still remaining when I took my last swig. The clean pleasant malty aroma is very complex with sweet roasted caramel coffee, and dark chocolate and is very cookie like. Rogue balances the malt aroma with flowers, resin, heavy citrus, dough, earth, plum, toffee, and date. The delicate (for a porter) but rich flavor is fresh, and clean. With a balance between moderate bitterness, sweetness, and acidity (a grapefruit like taste in the middle), this brew is everything I could ask for in a porter. The palate is syrupy and creamy with soft carbonation, yet finishes dry. It’s fullness is unsurpassed - I have had stouts with less body. Outstanding. I love this beer!!

This beer is brewed with seven malts, and two locally grown hops. The chocolate, black, and Munich malts used in this beer gives it an exceptional rich, creamy, chocolate and coffee character, that really tastes like mocha, hence the name. At 54 IBU ,it has that signature PNW hop tang, but this does not take away for the chocolate/mocha character of this beer. Rogue Mocha Porter pours to a beautiful deep brown to black color with a thick and creamy tan head and a soft to moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is fantastic with lots of dark chocolate and mild roast coffee aromas paired with touches of estery aromas of black currants, and piney hops. The palate is fat and soft on the tongue with lots of good sweet malt, chocolate, and mild coffee flavors, paired with hints of black currant, on a creamy body the fills the mouth and glides down. Mocha Porter finishes with more dark chocolate, sweet malt and mild coffee flavors up front, then ends with a gentle piney hop bitterness that balances the malt sweetness and mocha flavor out. Pure bliss on draught at the brewery, and a beer memory that will last me a life time. If you can’t make it out to the brewery, the good news is, this beer is widely available all over the US on draught, and in bottles. The bad news is, the condition this beer might be or could be a toss up in some markets. With a beer this good, it is worth it to gamble, as odds are you will find this beer in great shape. Mocha Porter is a very food friendly beer that would work well with a number of dishes. I enjoyed it with a creamy, rich, delicious bowl of Oregon Clam Chowder. It would also work very will with rich and creamy deserts.

The strong coffee flavors mix well with the chocolate and roasted favors in the malt. I wish the light were better for me to note the color.

there are two things i love in life: chocolate and beer. consequently, i love this brew. dark, rich and sweet, with a lovely aftertaste. thicker than most porters, which is more than okay in my book.

UPDATED: APR 10, 2007 Wow, this stuff is really, really good. Nice, thick, dirty brown head that sticks around. I can defintely taste coffee. Fantastic aroma. Beautiful dark color, and surprisingly smooth.

Topped off with a huge, spongy, light brown head that lasted in a puffy film, this was an opaque dark brown with lovely deep red highlights... showcasing a murky microcosm of slow effervescence. Aromas started with a chewy chocolate toffee, turning to a pronounced smoke, dough and dark fruit nose. Flavor was nice and bitter from start to finish with a pleasant, vinous middle. Well-roasted coffee flavors and a spicy bite at the end. Syrupy mouthfeel with a dry finish. Awesome. I may have found a new favorite porter.

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