Moor Porter

Tasting notes: A strong porter almost on the verge of being a stout, with a rich chocolatey/coffee flavor.

Randy's comment: "We brew this with a complex blend of four roasted malts and a dark crystal malt from Belgium. It's a single-hop beer using all Northern Brewer hops from the Northwest. I love a full, flavorful dark beer so I went all out and pushed the envelope of the porter style."

About the Name: Nantucket's landscape is relatively flat, with a great proportion of land that qualifies as moors, or as Coastal Sandplain Grassland. The distinctive features of moors are scrubby plants like bayberry, heather, and whatnot, which grow relatively low to the ground across gently undulating hills or hummocks. They are spartan and windswept, and show their best colors at sunset and in the fall, particularly to those equipped with a bottle of this beer in hand. The moors deserve to be immortalized on a beer bottle for all these reasons, and because everyone who tries it always wants to drink some more porter .