Beer - #367 - Rogue - Mocha Porter (a redux)

I'm revisiting the Rogue - Mocha Porter  -  I had this yolks ago - review is here  - This of course brewed by the people at Rogue Ales and it's a style of a  Porter, and they are in Newport, Oregon USA

This is a 330ml bottle of a 5.1 ABV beer, that has 153 calories,  54 IBU things which is high for a porter style, and in total 1.4 standard drinks.

Ruddy brown in colour, a bittersweet balance of malt and hops with a light cream finish. Mocha Porter is made from Northwest Harrington and Klages; 135-165, 95-115, and 70-80 Crystal; Beeston Chocolate, Black, Munich and Carastan malts. Perle and Centennial hops.

So last time I rested this as 7 arbitrary things, and not outstanding. Lets see if the intervening 18 months has done anything.

Chocolate aroma on opening. Dark pour with a decent fluffy and persistent head. Still more chocolate aroma than anything. But it's not big.

Porter burst of sweet fruits, and a tang of coffee/mocha but there isn't a lot of body in this, it's not a full mouth experience.

So much hasn't changed. It's decent without being really good. It's easy drinking but it's also disappointing because I really wanted more fullness and body.

The pdubyah-o-meter rates this as 7 a of its things from the thing. I though this was thin, more fruity and bitter than full and rich. 

It's not that I'm not liking it, I really want to like it more than I am.

The double dip review

1. Am I enjoying it? I'm not not enjoying it


2. Would I have another? Not this time.


3. Would I share with a friend on a porch and set the world to rights? It's more fruity bitter than coffee bitter, it might work.

Listening to Eric Clapton, something called the "Essential" album, it's cruisy for a Sunday.

PORTER

Black or chocolate malt gives the porter its dark brown color. Porters are well hopped and heavily malted. This is a medium-bodied beer. Porters can be sweet. Hoppiness can range from bitter to mild. Porters are often confused with stouts.

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Beer – #66 – Rogue - Mocha Porter

Rogue Mocha Porter. A way to end a torrid week.

Brewed by Rogue Ales in the style of a Porter, and this again a visitor from another place, the fabulous Newport, Oregon USA.

650Ml of a 5.1% ABV dark beer then.. or as they put it ....

Ruddy brown in color, a bittersweet balance of malt and hops with a light cream finish. Mocha Porter is made from Northwest Harrington and Klages; 135-165, 95-115, and 70-80 Crystal; Beeston Chocolate, Black, Munich and Carastan malts. Perle and Centennial hops...... so there!

It is dark brown, and I got no head, de nada, nix, and weirdly again no aroma to speak of. It might be a feature of the Rogue beers.  I get a carbination, and then I get a bit of a chocolate (mocha) hit, and that has some good time in the mouth, you know you've had a beer with a flavour is what I'm saying here. There is a tad of chocolate and of smoke.

That is all. But isn't that enough? Well, no to be honest. It's a bit thin. I had an expectation of just a little more, I don't know what, because the mystery guest never was included in this.

These are clearly people with a lot of thinking, and the combinations they have for ingredients and their up-font statement about them is much admirable. Again I don't not love this as a beer, and there are beers shuffling down the pdubyah-o-meter as I write.

What's the most impressive though is that these beers are those that change your perceptions of beer, particularly, mostly born of ignorance, of the US beers. And I like that.

The pdubyah-o-meter based on taste would be 7 isn on the arbitrary scale of things for this, it lacks the jolt or the elusive and all a bit fluffy "wow" factor for me, and you know that I've found beer that has that. Am I disappointed? Heck no, I'm just not blown away.

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