Moylans Brewery & Restaurant Chelsea Moylan's Porter

Chelsea Moylan's Porter

 

Moylans Brewery & Restaurant in Novato, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Porter Regular Out of Production
Score
6.88
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 56
This is a rich, robust porter, cleverly crafted to integrate the aromas and flavors of espresso coffee malt and bitter-sweet chocolate malt. Inspired by owner Brendan Moylans’ daughter Chelsea, this is an American-Irish Style Porter that dark beer drinkers will love
 

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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft @ Taphouse, Copenhagen. Pours a black color with a longlasting tan head. Has a roasted malty caramel and chocolate aroma. Roasted malty caramel and chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and caramel finish.

Tried from Draft on 17 Apr 2015 at 08:30


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

On tap at Fermentoren. Dark brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of caramel and coffee with diacetyl. Sweet malty flavour.

Tried from Draft on 08 Apr 2015 at 13:43


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Robust porter seeking to connect with the rich and old porter tradition from the British Isles, named after the founder’s daughter. Interesting: "we hope to begin a new tradition of brewing (...) that any black beer lover will enjoy". These noble ambitions aside, this brew has a lot to offer indeed: colour is a very dark burgundy, not to say black, under a relatively thick, creamy, dense, pale beige head with good retention and good lacing. Aroma is strong, complex and perfumey for a 5% ABV beer, and displays everything I expect from an American interpretation of porter: tons of coffee beans, frying bacon, bitter chocolate, beef broth, raisins, fresh paint, fresh rosemary, port wine, vanilla beans, paprika, iron (but in a good, ’bloody’ kind of way - sorry), a very faint suggestion of fennel seed, faint hint of smoked herring, coffee liqueur, dried ginger, dried orange peel. Dryish and ’light’ onset, crisp, dried fruits, raisins, freshly cut vegetables (thinking celery or carrots), weak background hint of charcoal, soft carbo, with a smooth, powdery mouthfeel, middle phase consists of lingering but very restrained fruitiness over a full, soft and bready caramelly maltiness, slightly metallic but not disturbingly so, quite nutty too but low on the chocolate department, which I suppose distinguishes this from a stout. Finishes primarily malty, caramelly, but slick and not cloying at all, with peppery and earthy hops playing a balancing role, along with a long-lasting, black coffee-like roasted bitterness; alcohol remains completely hidden, as ought to be the case in a beer of this strength. This is a very fine robust porter indeed, exemplary for its style, with a remarkably high drinkability. Cheers to miss Chelsea!

Tried from Can on 07 Feb 2015 at 11:32


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Aroma: roasted malt and fruity sweet. Flavour: roasted chocolate and fruity sweet. Watery mouthfeel. Colour: dark reddish brown with an offwhite head.

Tried on 28 Dec 2014 at 12:42


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Prima Beer. Clear very dark brown with a lasting beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, roasted malt and chocolate. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish. 281214

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2014 at 12:28


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

650ml bottle. Jet black colour with average to huge, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, beige to tan head. Roasty dark malty aroma has notes of ignoble, coarse, but spicy coffee, , dark chocolate, cocoa powder, herbal hoppy overtones. Taste is minimally sweet, chocolately dark malty, dry to bitter dark chocolate, a touch of milk chocolate, grassy and herbal hoppy overtones, chlorophyllic-oxidized and minimally mineral; slightly too prickling carbonation. Somehow ’Dutch IPA-ic’ in its grassy, mineral, water and carbo aspects.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2014 at 12:28


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

65cl, schenkt zwart met bruine kraag. aroma komt héérlijk binnen, gebrande en geroosterde mouten, chocolade en koffie. smaken zijn redelijk zoet, zwak bitter, redelijk sterke gebrande en geroosterde mouten zoals een goede porter deze heeft en stervige koffie en chocolade. Ook deze porter is aan de droge kant. zwakke body, vrij dun van textuur, en lage co2, afdronk wat droog. redelijk --- Beer merged from original tick of Chelsea Moylan’s Porter on 24 May 2018 at 15:50 - Score: 7

Tried on 17 Jul 2014 at 09:54


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

22oz bomber pours with a deep dark body that supports a nice looking mocha colored head. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, a thin layer of burnt malts, some chocolate and a sliver of molasses. The taste starts sweet with malts and quickly leads into dark roasted malts and sweet caramel malts, chocolate and a light molasses like note. Into the finish I get more of a pleasing chocolate sensation coming to the surface adding to the interest and depth. Nice.

Tried on 05 Jul 2014 at 10:19


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle @ Van Moll Tasting shared by Dutchdrebus. Very dark brown to black color with a slight deep red glare coming through, average sized light brown head. Aroma has malts, dark malts, chocolate, raisins, leaves. Taste malts, slightly sweet malts, a hint of chocolate, raisins, soft bitter aftertaste. Decent body and carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2014 at 08:01


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ Proeftafel Van Moll. Cola colour with a small off-white head. Smells chocolate, roasty, coffee, milkchocolate. Tastes roasty, coffee, very nice. Medium body, soft carbo.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2014 at 07:58