Cisco Moor Porter
This craft-brewed porter is made in very small batches right here on Nantucket. It is unfiltered and bottle-conditioned to ensure the freshest possible taste. Our porter is made with a blend of roasted barley, black patent, and chocolate malt for a smooth, chocolatey finish that goes famously well with oysters. Serve slightly chilled.
3.6
291 reviews
Nantucket, United States
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Bottle. Very dark brown/black pour, frothy lasting head and an aroma of light roasty chocolate. Flavor has a medium bodied light toasted dark malt, hints of light chocolate and coffee and finished slightly dry. Nice porter, expecially at $6/bomber.
22 0z. bottle. Pours brown black with a foamy khaki head that slowly dissipates to a foamy film. Aroma has bitterness roasted malt and some peat/soy as well. Taste is bitter roasted malt some soy and peat with a subtle bakers chocolate and hidden marsh mellow. Palate is medium and chalky with a dry finish. Pretty solid porter!
Bottle. Pours a thick and very black color with a fairly thick tan head. Nose is a little bready, but has quite a bit of toastiness to it. Taste has a bit of roastiness to it. Good brew...
Poured from a large bottle into a trumpet glass to drink. The beer had a rich, dark black color with a big creamy dark tan head with great retention, and excellent cling and lacing. Its aroma featured smokey chocolate and coffee tones, with notes of molasses and sugar, along with some earthy and grainy bitterness and tones of licorice. The beer was fairly sweet and malty with some caramel and lighter chocolate tones along with some subtle earthy bitterness. It was a fairly wet and watery beer without a thick or full mouthfeel, but had good lively carbonation.
I was surprised to see this on the shelf since I’ve barely heard of Cisco. Dark black with a fluffy head, looks like a rootbeer float. Smells roasty, delcious. The flavor had chocolate, roast, malts, pretty good. I was surprised how much I liked this but I’m a sucker for a good porter.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 02-21-2011 01:05:46
22oz bottle. Black pour, light brown foam. Nice raosted barley nose, loads of roast, burnt malt, dark chocolate. Tastes of burnt grains, chocolate, licorice, cocoa. Very well balanced. Soft and creamy, a bit on the heavier side. A bit too heavy to session, but its worth the attempt. So much flavor. This Porter is badass, full of flavor! (3487)
interesting porter, I think the longer it sat at room temperature the better it was tasting. Black pour, off brown head, decent lacing. Definite chocolate teaste, with roasted flavors as well. Balanced, medium body, slight bitter chocolatey finish.
Rich, smoky aroma has an overtone of semi-sweet chocolate and subtle roast malt and licorice notes. It pours a deep, warm sable with a thick, fluffy and rather persistent tan head. Flavor, though, lacks the depth that the aroma promised - still smoky like a good porter with roast malt and coffee notes and hints of licorice and chocolate, just not as strong as the bouquet. Texture has OK body but plenty of fizz. Overall, a good porter, if not an outstanding one. Definitely worth a try, especially if you like dark beers.
22oz bottle. near black with a small beige head. nose of fudge and licorice. a dry porter with low sweetness. flavors are mainly molasses, dark chocolate and fudge and hint of licorice. lightish body. i prefer a little more body and sweetness.
On nitro: pours dark brown with an evenly displaced(nitro) tan lacing. Heavy notes of chocolate and coffee with caramel and the faintest hint of soy.
Light but robust chalky malt aroma. Very dark brown color with a medium light brown head. Mildly sweet throughout except for a bitter malt middle. Bitterness does come back in the ending
Malt, coffee, chocolate, and roast in the aroma. Taste starts sweet, then finishes with coffee and cocoa/chocolate bitterness. Mouthfeel is a little on the thin side, but all in all this is really, really good.
My wife brought this one back from a trip to Rochester. +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with an enormous foamy beige head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was dryish, meaty, toasty, woody and had light fruity hops and a hint of Baker’s chocolate. The flavor was dry, bitter and roasty with moderate smoke and wood and hints of vanilla and coffee. The finish was long, dry, bitter, roasty and smoky. Medium body. Eh.
pours a dark brown unclear, red tint, with a nice frothy light beige head, nice retention and lacing. roastiness, tons of coffee, bittering coffee, pine, resin, light molasses. somewhat lively, then settled, light to medium body, nice bittering coffee finish.
Bottle. Poured brown with a tan head that settle to a ring and left good lacing. Aroma of milk chocolate. The flavor found chocolate, roast, and hints of smoke and licorice. Medium body with a roast and cocoa aftertaste.
BOTTLE at Darkness Day 2011.
Roasty nose and taste with chocolate and coffee.
Draft @ Monster B’s, Stamford, CT. This is a very silky feeling porter that provides a mouthfeel akin to a Guinness/soy milk hybrid. This beer has a splendid roasted barley flavor with a nice milk chocolate note. I would rate this beer even higher if it didn’t have a slight soapy aftertaste.
rec’d from secret santa (was a WL) This beer is very overated. notmal porter aroma and pour but there is no flavor. over carbonated with a thin chocolate cocoa taste but little else - thin and lacking in flavor - not bad flavor but absolutely nothin there
Bottle. Pours a dark brown, almost black, with a foamy tan head and rings of lacing. Aroma is coffee and chocolate. Palate is smooth, but a bit on the thin side. Dry too. Flavor is roasted malts, coffee and cocoa. A fairly typical porter. Good stuff.
22 ounce thanks to Ernesto987. Pours a big carbonated head. Big nose and taste of chocolate and coffee. Well done.
650 ml. bottle. Pours an exuberant, lasting, beige head, with extensive lacing, over a slightly hazy brown (SRM 35) body...nose is coffee, chocolate, light green grass....taste is coffee, light cocoa, finishing with a bitter bite.....mouth feel light, carbonation after initial burst, adds a fizzy sensation. This is obviously a Porter and meets the style quite well. It is not as smoothly balanced as the best, and the finishing bitterness is slightly harsh. BJCP 7/3/13/4/7
Date: October 22, 2011 Mode: Bottle Source: Darkness Day. Full description not available as I sampled way too many beers during Darkness Day!
Bottle. Very dark pour with mnimal head. Big roasty nose and taste with chocolate and coffee. Wonderful.
A nice, if simple, imperial porter. Nose of chocolates and sweet malts. Taste of chocolate, very little malt, very little hops. Almost seems like a great chocolate soda. Fairly simple flavor profile, easy to drink. Fairly simple smooth palate, like a porter; again easy to drink. Almost black, huge brown head.
Second time I’ve had this beer, a couple of years after the first. The first one was a 750ml, and this one was a bomber. Unfortunately, both were infected, as many Cisco brews seem to be. The pour gives a dark mahogany colored body that shines clear at the edges. A thick, billowing head of frothed up micro bubbles tells the tale of infection right off the bat. Hard, dense patches of lace cling hard to the glass. The nose is based in dark barley roast, with notes of blackened caramel and scorched coffee. Unfortunately, there’s a good deal of earthy brett that doesn’t really work in this brew, and the occasional waft of rubber or band-aid mucks things up. Flavors follow suit, if not coming across even more plasticy, artificial, and dirty. There are plenty of nice barley roast, bitter chocolate and coffee notes lying beneath, and the dryness is fairly nice, but the infection-induced flaws are too egregious to overlook. The palate is expectedly dry and overly carbonated, stinging the dried out tongue with intense fizziness. In the end, the two brews, both infected, consumed years apart indicate that known quality control issues have gone unaddressed. I can’t help but wonder if Cisco’s recent foray into bretty, sour beers is more of a "if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em" tactic than an intentional brewery direction.
1/24/2010
A recent edition to the portfolio of beer available in NH.
Pours a pretty solid dark brown/black color with a creamy tan head that dissipates quickly to a ring on the top. Smells of chocolate syrup or light milk chocolate right up front. Slight bit of coffee, caramel, butterscotch and a faint non-descript dark fruit in there as well. Taste is slightly acridic with more of the chocolate coffee and butterscotch tones. Light taste of dark fruits then a roasty lingering finish. I find this to be very sweet. The very light carbonation accentuates the sweetness for me. Creamy almost oily mouthfeel with a medium to thick body. I thought this one was ok, but the flavors seem out of harmony if that makes any sense. Maybe some more carbonation would help. I may try this again because its not half bad and maybe I’m having a bad palette day.
Tons of roasted coffee on the nose, with a little bit of chocolate thrown in. The looks are good, even if the head seems a little too boisterous for comfort. I dig the flavor, mainly dark chocolate with a sweet dried fruit undercurrent, and a modestly bitter fade. Seems like this bottle could be just as easily labeled "stout," but the contents inside are delicious either way. (2008)
Almost black pour, light tan head, good retention. Aroma is slight dark chocolate, light smoke. Very light carbonation, medium body, alcohol is well hidden, sweet up front leading to a lingering bitterness. Not bad, but not amazing.
Bottle.
Head is initially average sized, frothy, brown, mostly diminishing.
Body is dark brown to black.
Aroma is moderately malty (dark chocolate, roasted grain), lightly to moderately hoppy (flowers, apricot), with notes of vanilla, chalk.
Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter.
Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter.
Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic.
A pretty straightforward, easy-going rendition. Smells decent, tastes fine, maybe a little watery, but overall there’s just nothing too special about it.
Bomber poured a clear dark redish brown with a small lasting tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, bitter chocolate, coffee, light vanila and light carmel. Palate was light to medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of bitter chocolate, vanilla, coffee and roasted malt with a smooth lingering roasty chocolate finish.