Cold Drip War
Moon Dog Craft Brewery in Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Porter Special Out of Production|
Score
6.83
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Here's a tasty historical titbit: in East Germany during the late 70's there was a terrible crisis - they didn't have enough coffee. During this time we would hazard a guess that mornings weren't great. So they introduced the concept of mischkaffee, or "mixed coffee", which blended chicory and rye with a bit of coffee.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Pours black with a large off-white head.Nose shows coffee, roasted malt, spicy rye and bready notes.Flavours more coffee, sweet bready malt and dry roast leading to a bitter, slightly herbal finish.Carbonation is much too aggressive.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2014
at 22:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a 330ml bottle on 9/9/2014. Pours the darkest of brown with a big light tan head. The nose is nice and chocolatey, with a touch of smoke and coffee. The flavour brings more sweet chocolate, a touch more coffee, and a reasonably stern, spicy bitterness. The palate is very creamy and the carbonation quite lively. An unusual porter and a pretty good one at that. So pleased to have an adventurous brewer like Moon Dog in Oz.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2014
at 03:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Darkish brown with a small crema head. Looks like coffee. Intriguing, almost magic tricky aroma - first sweet coffee and moderate roasted barley and then suddenly it’s almost borscht-like (!) Then dill-like herbal notes turn to chicory and remind you of the coffee smelled in the first place. Quite something. Rather thin, medium to low carbonation. Lots of chicory - which for me is a poor substitute for rather than complements coffee - earthy, spicy, toasty bread. Very interesting but didn’t love it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2014
at 06:05