Road Trip Brewing Sinister Rabbit

Brewed by Flying Monkey Brewing
Style: Porter
Olathe, Kansas USA

Bottle. Poured a dark brown color with a light brown head. Strong lacing. Nice full mouthfeel. Aroma is a nice and malty with a hint of smoke to it. Flavor is rich and smokey. Nice maltiness to it with a hoppy kick. Not a bad offering.

12 oz. bottle from my friend Connor. Pour is deep brown, almost black with a nice khaki head. Very nice looking in the glass. Aroma of roasted malt, a bit of hop. Taste features the roasted malt initially, with a snappy hop bitterness to the finish. Some smokiness comes through in the head as well. A touch on the dry side, a little thin on the palate. This was very drinkable.

12oz. brown bottle served in a shaker pint. Bottle conditioned. Poured an opaque brown/black. About one finger of fine bubbled brown head. Cocoa and roasty malt in the aroma with some hops. A very dry beer with a lot of roasted barley bitterness. Medium body. There is a bit of a smoky flavor. There is hop bitterness there, but it doesn’t really jump out at you. The flavors seemed a bit muddled at first, but it started to grow on me.

Reminds me quite a bit of Four Finger Stout, but a little less body and character. Pours a very dark brown, small but tight layer of khaki foam. Aroma is mostly roasty, touches of chocolate and molasses. Flavor much the same, soft carbonation, near velvety mouthfeel, slightly astringent finish with plenty of roast.

Pitch black coloured body with a thinnish light-brown head - looks pretty sinister! Aroma of roasted malt, raisins, pit fruit, smoke, meat and a bit of mushrooms. Medium-bodied; Assertive roasted malt flavours up front with a deep raisiny and sweet finish and some malt and metal finishing it out. Aftertaste shows a lot of roasty and almost smokey flavours with some nice sweetness at the end, in addition to a little vanilla and oak. Overall, not a bad beer- good to sample, and showing some moderate complexity. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased over a year ago on 25-March-2008 at Goebel Liquor in Wichita, Kansas, sampled at home in Washington on 22-May-2009.

Thanks to theisti for the bottle. I really didn’t expect this to be a porter; the label give no indication of style. Pours a dark brown color with a medium head; and watch out for the yeasty bottom.
Aroma of chocolate and dark roasted malts. Medium to light body. A bit of a chalky texture, and watery.

12oz. bottle. Aroma is fairly slight, just some cocoa and dark, roasty malts along with a touch of yeast. Opaque ebony color with a fine, subsiding tan head. Bottle-conditioned. Flavor is largely bitter and dry, both from the earthy hops and highly-kilned malt, very faint touches of dark chocolate sweetness present far in the background, otherwise the dark black, nearly charred roastiness reigns here. Palate is thin, sharp and has a rather pronounced bite to it, while the body is light-medium. Lingering leafy, spicy hoppy flavors late. Really pretty drinkable, for all that.

my 55/60 state/province. I was not expecting too much, there is a home bias to these lesser known craft beers. That was probably the case here. Mistakely drank it as a stout, it is a porter, and fine for the style. Fresh taste, thank you, but also a bit watery and aggessive carbonation.