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Mmmm… the nights are drawing in, the frost is forming on the windows. Perfect conditions for a dark and sickly and fairly boozy beer.
Mocha is a beer by Lincolnshire family brewer Bateman’s, and unlike many of these coffee/chocolate style beers, which use a clever combination of malts to recreate the flavour of your favourite hot beverage, this beauty actually contains Belgian Chocolate and Aricba coffee!
I’ve had a porter brewed with coffee beans before and really didn’t get on with it, but this is just lovely. Not terribly sophisticated but damn tasty. Soft and sweet, the chocolate and particularly the coffee flavours are subtle, and there’s still some beery grainy taste in there. The fizz works really well considering it is almost creamy in places, and overall the flavours do well to disguise the 6% booze!
Yummy.