Moccasin Bend Smoky Mountain Porter

Brewed by Moccasin Bend Brewing Co.
Style: Smoked
Chattanooga, Tennessee USA

Appearance: Pours an opaque, dark brown body with a medium-sized, off-white head. Smell: Subtle meaty smokiness enveloping an aroma of dark malt, cocoa powder, licorice, and prunes. Taste: Dark maltiness, mildly sweet, and a full (though never overblown) taste of sooty smoke and roast. Integrated fruit and licorice flavors. Some hunks of baker’s chocolate. Dialed up licorice on the cocoa coated finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Not bad! There’s a very reasonable, well-balanced smoke character in this one. Enough to please the smoke fans and keep the smoke crybabies from screeching.

Version 1: Pours an opaque brown color with a brown head. Aroma is malty, smoky, chocolate, roast, some hardwood notes, and caramel. Flavor is smoky, roast, chocolate, caramel, and a bitter roasty finish. Version 2: Pours an opaque brown color with a brown head. Aroma is smoky, caramel, chocolate, and some floral notes. Flavor is malty, caramel, roast, smoky, floral, and a sweet caramel finish. The second version has a little less smoke flavor and lets more of the dark grain flavors come through.

Date: 11/04/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewery

black, whispy tan head, drippy lace, big roasted malt aroma with a nice smokey character,dry chocolate flavor, lots of roasted character mixed in with a touch of smoke and earthy bitterness,
-------- /> Date: 11/08/2006
Mode: growler

ditto, picking up a touch more hops, light tartness, just too dry
-------- /> Date: 05/31/2008
Source: brewery
Score: 3.0 to 3.2
Words: heavy smoked

Aroma: lots of smoked chocolate aroma with a hint of dark caramel sweetness,
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, lots of earthy smoke character keeps it dry
-------- /> Date: 05/31/2008
Mode: draft
Source: brewery
Words: lessor smoke

Aroma: less smoke in the aroma allows the chocolate come through stronger,
Flavor: same rich smoked chocolate flavor, a bit lighter on the earthyness, a bit more dark caramel sweetness sneaks through adding more balance,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Growler sampled on 11/8/06: Pours a nearly opaque with dark brown edges and a well-lacing frothy tan head. Sweet, lightly smoked, dark chocolatey aroma has a touch of earthy hops. Body starts with nice sweet dark caramel maltiness revealing a smooth, bittersweet dark chocolate flavor. A nice smoked porter.

Draft. Poured a hazy dark brown color with a small tan head. Light smokey notes over roasted malt. Hint of chocolate as well. The flavor was mildly smokey with lightly tart roasted malt. Decent bitter finish.

dark color. slight chocolate flavor with some bitterness. also tasted like bbq. sounds like an odd combo but it actually wasn’t bad

A dark brown almost black pour with a tan head. A dry slight coffee falvor with smoke kicker. This beer had a slight graininess and a light pleasant bitter. A real surprise in this beer not great but good.

This was a nice porter. A black appearance with a chocolate and smokey aroma. The flavor was bitter with some coffee, chocolate, and smoked malt flavor. The smoke does stand out in this one. I enjoyed it.