Rock Bottom Moonshine Porter

On tap at Linkery. Dark brown with a creamy tan head. Faint chocolate and roasty aroma and taste, nothing special.

tap at the downtown denver location. the one i had listed at 5.3%. nitro pour, this was not one that was helped by nitro. black brown with a thick head. not much in the nose. hell, not much in the taste either. more in the finish than anywhere else. a chocolate bar taste lingered. this was dull from start to finish. i have nothing ellse to add. 3 3 3 3 9

On tap @ La Jolla location - Pours a dark brown color with a thin light tan head. Thin lacing. Aroma is roasted malt and light coffee. Flavor is big roasted malt, coffee, and light chocolate. Light to medium body. A good Porter.

Nitro at Rock Bottom in La Jolla, CA: Black color. Nose is floral, like rose water, bubble gum, subtle raw coffee bean and vanilla. The flavor’s full of light chocolate and a bit of charcoal. Finishes dry; the nitro pulled out the body but it still works.

Draft. Opaque black with a thick light brown nitro head. Roast malt astringency and some coffee aromatics. Nitrogen dulled chocolate and coffee grounds. Fades to some roast in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium, very smooth.

Milwaukee. Deep translucency and midnight brown in color with a tan, creamy thin sheaf and creamy tan wrung for the head. Milky espresso comes forth in the aroma, adjoined with dark chocolate fudge, chocolate bran flakes and a Wonderbread component. Slightly astringent as the tongue gets a crack at it, but it then converts to a mellowed syrup profile. A Hershey syrup sense counterbalances mildly bitter intonations in the background. Light chocolate powder and chocolate breakfast muffins assume most of the afterlife. Decent, easy and sweet.

For as "retired" as this beer is, it seems to be resurrected seasonally at the Milwaukee location. The latest incarnation was tapped 10/19/05 and has an ABV of 5.6%.

An oily, tan cap sat atop a near-black body with reddish highlights. Juicy aroma held healthy amounts of roasted malt and syrupy dark fruits. Flavor was bitter coffee with a touch of fruit to finish (detecting banana, of all things). Mild alcohol tasted. Full-bodied & oily with light astringence & lilting effervescence. This is a delicious, strong porter. If they called it a "Sweet Stout", I would have believed them.

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On tap in Milwaukee. Black color with a little head. Smoky aroma. Bitter coffe flavor with a touch of smoke on it. Not too bad!