Blue Moon Considering a Dark Chocolate Bacon Porter

Link:

http://beernews.org/2012/02/blue-moon-dark-chocolate-bacon-porter-among-three-finalists-for-new-fall-seasonal/

I can’t decide whether the concept of a beer with both bacon and chocolate in it makes me sick to my stomach, or is the best beer concept ever. ;) This could either be really good, or really bad.

Of course, if it’s anything like ShockTop’s "IPA", it’ll taste actually like a macro lager anyhow, so the point will be moot. ;)

i sure as shit want to try it!

I just wanna try that damn peanut butter blonde.

Rogue made something like this, and I’m sure it was actually good unlike this.

Originally posted by watson1977
I just wanna try that damn peanut butter blonde.

And then make a half and half with the dark chocolate bacon porter.

Originally posted by keanex
Rogue made something like this, and I’m sure it was actually good unlike this.

Yeah, I don’t want to pre-judge this, but the Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale that doesn’t taste like pumpkin or any fall spices makes me a little skeptical. Not that the Pumpkin Ale was bad, I just don’t see what made it a pumpkin ale. There might have been the faintest whiff of a pumpkin scent if you sniffed the foam at the bottom of the glass when you were done drinking. As a side note: I guess this fall seasonal contest means their pumpkin ale is gone, eh?

Shocktop’s so-called Wheat IPA also put me off of some of this stuff. I mean, it’d have been one thing if it was more of a wheat pale ale with adjuncts (about what I’d expect), but I tried the stuff and it had about the same hops content as a Budweiser lager. On no planet is that thing anywhere near an IPA, or even in pale ale territory. I was actually kind of looking forward to it it, too, thought it might be a less expensive alternative to the lower tier craft IPAs. But it was really disappointing.

Originally posted by watson1977
I just wanna try that damn peanut butter blonde.

Willoughby Peanut butter cup porter is like liquid crack

Originally posted by keanex
Rogue made something like this, and I’m sure it was actually good unlike this.

Yeahhhh, this sounds awesome:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/beer_name/152611/6533/

I’d try it, but we won’t get it in Canada, and I probably would not be missing much. I did see the regular Shock Top in Ontario when i visited last summer though...scrolled past.

Originally posted by Ernest

Originally posted by keanex
Rogue made something like this, and I’m sure it was actually good unlike this.

Yeahhhh, this sounds awesome:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/beer_name/152611/6533/

I’ll take it over Blue Moons.

Originally posted by pintbypint
I did see the regular Shock Top in Ontario

The regular Shock Top (Belgian whit) isn’t that bad. You can taste some wheat, you can taste orange, it’s a bit hazy, there’s some beery stuff in there. It’s clearly a cheap Belgian Whit, but it’s a Belgian Whit.

The Shock Top IPA is simply not an IPA, though, which kind of galls me. It’s like false advertising or something. It’d be as if AB-Ibev decided to market a "Budweiser IPA" and it was really just Budweiser lager with a different label. Words have meaning.