Black Mo Tasting

We bottled our Tumbler clone over a month ago and it's finally ready to drink! We tried it a couple weeks after bottling, but (frustratingly) it still wasn't carbonated yet. Since then though, we finally got carbonation. Plus, the smokiness mellowed out a lot just in the last couple weeks.

We may be biased since it's our beer, but I think this one really is genuinely tasty. It's got some brown maltiness, noticeable smoke presence, and a hint of chocolate. We have a couple bottles of Sierra Nevada Tumbler from a "fall sampler pack," so I'm looking forward to a side-by-side comparison just to see how close our beer is to Tumbler. I'm so glad we made three gallons of it, so we have lots of bottles to enjoy and share.

The name is a reference to Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania, where Amy's family loves to camp and has had several family reunions. What better name for our smokey dark beer?

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