DuClaw Bad Moon Porter

Brewed by DuClaw Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Abingdon, Maryland USA

Another very good offering from DuClaw. After a couple of good porters lately I’m starting to be less dismissive of the style. Big flavors, roasted malt and hints of chocolate and biscuit. Maybe just a tad flat/thin but enjoyable.

This beer is a very flavorful, robust porter with fantastic dark chocolate and coffee notes in both aroma and flavor. This beer is very flavorful and delicious, and makes for a perfect beer to have with a desert, and wraps up a visit to one of Duclaw’s locations very nicely. Bad Moon Porter pours to deep brown to ebony color with a thick and creamy tan head, and a soft to moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is just bursting with big, robust aromas of dark chocolate, espresso coffee, roast, and some piney hop aromas. The palate is rich and full on the tongue with lots of big dark chocolate malt flavors, paired with more notes of espresso coffee. I’m really impressed with the chocolate malt character of this beer, one would think they brewed this with real dark/semi sweet chocolates. Bad Moon Porter finishes with more of the big chocolate and coffee flavors, then ends with a roasty, and piney hop bitterness that lingers. This beer is awesome. I matched a pint of this with a sinfully decadent slice of Oreo pie on my last visit to Duclaw. It matched so well, I not only ordered another pint of Bad Moon, I ordered another slice of Oreo pie!

chocolate, coffee, roasty, brown, tan foam, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, lightly sour, full body, creamy, long finish,

Pours a cola looking brown color with a small tan head. The aroma is mostly chocolate with a little cigar smoke. Flavor is burnt chocolate and nuts with a little hoppy coffee finish. Sort of on the thinner side. An alright porter.

On tap: Great cafe mocha aroma with light roasted malt. Dark brown with no transparency and a tan head. Quick light chocolate and roasted malt up front is quickly overtaken by a nice roasted coffee finish. A very nice porter.

Draft at Arundel Mills location. Pours deep brown with an nice beige head. Aroma dark roasted malts and dry coffee grounds. Medium mouthfeel. Not too thin, not too thick, just right. Nicely balanced flavor of chocolate, burnt malts, and coffee. Just enough bitter hops on the finish to balance out the sweetness. Very nice robust porter. So good, I wish I would have had more time to grab another before my flight.

Pours dark brown almost black. Head is off white and is lasting. Aroma contains mostly chocolate and I think there is some coffee. Flavor is smoked with chocolate. quite good.

12/2/05: On Tap, Bowie.
Nice, creamy, caramel hop aroma. Close to opaque, brown body with a creamy tan head. Full flavor; rich with roasted malts, nuts and hops, Novocaine-like numbing tongue finish. Bitter and good.