{"id":10425,"date":"2010-01-27T14:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=10425"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:29:56","slug":"review-rogue-beer-mocha-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/01\/review-rogue-beer-mocha-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Rogue Beer Mocha Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was going to start this review off with a little song.\u00a0 I was going to share some lyrics that involved drinking a 40 and hanging out with my pistol fo’ shizzle.\u00a0 Or you know, something like that.\u00a0 But rap is not something I’ve very intimate with so I had some trouble finding appropriate lyrics.\u00a0 Oh sure, I like some stuff here and there but on the whole, rap isn’t really my style.<\/p>\n

I just talk the shiz, I don’t listen to it.\u00a0 So, my friends, you are going to have to make it through this post sans awesome rap lyrics and instead read about my newest dark lover.<\/p>\n

I’m going to assume you are alright with this change in direction and proceed with my story.<\/p>\n

The first time I had Rogue<\/a> beer was last November when I was in San Francisco for The Foodbuzz Festival.\u00a0 It was an afternoon of tasting and people were talking about how fantastic the chocolate stout was.\u00a0 We all know how much I am<\/a> in love<\/a> with the<\/a> dark side<\/a> and we definitely should know how much I love me some chocolate stout<\/a>.\u00a0 Please see links if you need a refresher.\u00a0 Basically I like my beer how I like my men, with some color.\u00a0 That might be easier for you to remember.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back on track, I walked over to the Rogue booth to get some chocolate stout.\u00a0 At that point in time I was a little underwhelmed.\u00a0 It was late in the afternoon and I was not in a beer mood. I was about to head into a wine tasting so I was limiting in alcohol intake at that point and the beer was a little on the too cold side.\u00a0 Sadly I ended up tossing it and headed over to the wine tasting.<\/p>\n

But Rogue never left my mind and I was determined to try them again.\u00a0 You see, they sort of won me over with their beer names and because Morimoto has his own beer! Morimoto happens to be my fave Iron Chef, so Morimoto plus witty beer names?<\/p>\n

You have me Rogue! You totally have me!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Recently, Scott and I were at the new and improved Kroger not far from home and as we were looking at the beer selection I noticed they had a good variety of Rogue on hand.\u00a0 You could purchase single bottles which are very similar to a 40 in size. This caused me to giggle and make really inappropriate comments to Scott.\u00a0 That’s how I roll gang.<\/p>\n

Word.<\/p>\n

There were a few that caught our attention, but this guy over here ended up being the winner:\u00a0 Rogue Mocha Porter.<\/p>\n

Chocolate? Awesome!<\/p>\n

Porter? GIMME ME!<\/p>\n

We brought Mr. Luscious over here home and introduced him to our causal lifestyle.\u00a0 Come play with Scotty and Andie Mr. Luscious!<\/p>\n

As you can see from the picture this is a great dark porter.\u00a0 It pours thick and the head sticks around for several minutes, which to me indicates a lot of things but most notably that this should be a good tasting beer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I prefer my porters to be a bit warm, so I let it sit for a few minutes while I read the ingredients.\u00a0 I’m not sure if you can read what is there, but one ingredient is, “Free Range Coastal Water”<\/em>.\u00a0 Do we not love them?<\/p>\n

Good thing it was time to drink at this point!<\/p>\n

This beer was fantastic!\u00a0 It was very smooth with the light bitter finish of your typical porter.\u00a0 The chocolate was definitely there and came though at the very end.\u00a0 It was like you just finished eating a square of really good quality dark chocolate.\u00a0 That sort of dry chocolate taste that comes with dark chocolate?\u00a0 That is what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

The upside was that we had almost 40 ounces to share! The downside is that we didn’t buy more.\u00a0 Boo shame on us!<\/p>\n

I have had other beers that talk about being made with chocolate or having chocolate notes, but this beer truly delivers on that claim.\u00a0 If you enjoy the dark side of beers, definitely give Rogue a look and try.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While in San Francisco, Lori<\/a> and I did swing by the Rogue Pub one afternoon to check it out.\u00a0 Sadly we didn’t stay because neither of us were hungry or thirsty but now I’m sort of regretting that decision.\u00a0 It’s always Beer O’Clock somewhere, right?\u00a0 Oh well, Rogue and I will definitely have a date the next time I’m in the area.\u00a0 In the meantime, I’ll have to enjoy my 40s at home.<\/p>\n

Get you some Rogue<\/a> already!\u00a0 And if you try it, let me know all about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to start this review off with a little song.\u00a0 I was going to share some lyrics that involved drinking a 40 and hanging out with my pistol fo’ shizzle.\u00a0 Or you know, something like that.\u00a0 But rap is not something I’ve very intimate with so I had some trouble finding appropriate lyrics.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}