Moonlight Bony Fingers Malt Liqour

Brewed by Moonlight Brewing Company
Style: Schwarzbier
Fulton, California USA

Draft @ Hopmonk. Pours a dense, dark chocolate-brown color; light-tan head with good retention and scattered, fine-bubbled lacing. Lots of highly roasted malts, coffee, touches of nougat and toasted malts in the nose; nicely dry; some dark chocolate and plenty of roast; maybe the most generous schwarzbier aroma I can think of. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: lots of heavily roasted coffee, dark chocolate, and a hint of lightly bitter mineral notes; very nice roastiness, with a lightly sweet cola character present as well; at the core, an easy-drinking and highly complex dark lager; generous and roasty, with no alcohol apparent. Lengthy finish: roasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate; nicely dry and again, exceptionally complex. Nice.

On tap at Monks Kettle in SF. Damn, this beer rocked! Nearly jet black in color with a lasting tan head. Aroma is nice roast, chocolate, coffee, and earth. Awesome roasted and earthy flavor with fresh coffee and rich yet bitter cocoa as well as mild hops. Body is medium and palate is smooth and a bit dry. Awesome schwarzbier, on of the best I’ve tried. Better than Death and Taxes IMO.

Pours very dark brown to black with a fine brown head. Aroma is potent with roasted malt, chocolate, licorice, and wood. The flavor is also pretty intense with an earthy, woody bitter backbone. Not much sweetness. Very herbal and slightly spicy. Overall, an enjoyable beer.

Tap at the Linkery. Deep dark brown beer. Aroma of cocoa and coffee. Nice dark malts and a toasted wheaty graininess. Soft cocoa flavour and a rich lingering maltiness. Nice deep roastiness on the back with a lingering rich chocolately flavour. An excellent schwartzbier.

Poured from tap, at Barclays, black with a large tan head. Aroma is malt sweet with roasted coffee, grain and nuts. Flavor is sticky-chewy sweet malt with toffee, roasted coffee, cocoa powder, and ending with a small burst of toasted hops that never assert any bitterness. Overall the flavor was nice, but a bit loaded on the sweet side for me.

Draught at The Red. Black with an everlasting tan head. Caramel corn and dark chocolate aroma. Strong, roasty dark chocolate flavors, with a rich, yet subtle hop balance. Medium bodied and a bit chewy. Very assertive and roasty for a schwartz, almost american stout territory. Fuller and more assertively roasty than Death and Taxes, but not quite as magically balanced.

On tap @ O’Brien’s. Pours a deep brown almost black with a thin beige head. Fresh coffee on the nose as well as some toasted malts. Flavor was also of fresh brewed coffee, toasted malts and cocoa dust.