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RATINGS: 163   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.5   EST. CALORIES: 159   ABV: 5.3%
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Our coffee beer is more "iced coffee" than "double-mocha-mud", more "summer quencher" than "winter warmer". I start with a brown Mexican lager to compliment the coffee of choice, "Nicaragua" (beans from the La Fem Grower’s Co-operative, roasted by Just Coffee of Madison.) I include flaked maize both for added creaminess and to appease the sun gods. Extra-warm fermentation lets the yeast create more interesting flavors (the California-common effect, or "Vapor Beer", if you speak Beer-Spanglish.) Hop bitterness is increased to offset the sweet flavor of un-brewed coffee. Whole beans are soaked in the beer during cold maturation - the alcohol extracts and retains aromatics that would otherwise be lost to hot water. You want numbers? Well, numbers you shall have: 15 degrees Plato; 37 IBU’s; 5.3% ABV.

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
TheGuy (642) - Illinois, USA - FEB 20, 2010
buy far one of this brewers best beers pours a dark amber and clear with a off white head aromas are of coffee,roasted light malts and caramel, flavors tend to be the same with some chocolate and very light on the hopping avery nice brew

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
DougShoemaker (3149) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - FEB 1, 2010
Aroma is nutty with alcohol? light copper, small tan head. Flavour has alcohol predominating, bit of almonds afterward. Medium bodied, a tad harsh. Interesting. Thank You Mabel and Jerc.

4.3
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 18/20
cadenwhitaker (19) - USA - JAN 19, 2010
First off, this has the best coffee smell I’ve had in a beer to date. It smells like coffee, dark roasted coffee. It pours amber, red, not black - and this is a huuuge selling point for me because I’m sick of coffee beers that pour black: The reasoning is that coffee is a dark/malty/biscuity taste and when you pair that with a dark/roasted beer you almost always wind up with just "burnt coffee". This is not burnt, it is smooth, dark, roasted coffee. This - is - a - fantastic - coffee - beer.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
HonkeyBra (2217) - Lemont, Illinois, USA - JAN 4, 2010
Dark brown pour with active white head that settles into a bit of a film. I’ve heard a lot from this brewery. Aroma of earth and coffee. Flavor is coffee with a bit of earthy, dirtyness you don’t really get in lagers. In a good way, though. Finishes really clean. I’m confused. I guess it’s cool though.

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
jzzbassman (1256) - New Albany, Mississippi, USA - DEC 13, 2009
Strong sweet tea appearance with light foam. Coffee is prominent in the aroma, with an earthy mushroom like background. Lively carbonation, with coffee once again being prominent in the flavor, with some vanilla as well.

3.2
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
allendodd (108) - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - NOV 19, 2009
Well, this one pours a dark coffee brown. The nose is coffee. The first taste is coffee with a trace of sweetness, and then some more coffee. Palate is light with some strong carbonation, but then, this is the first time I have had carbonated coffee. The finish is dry with the hint of some possibly Belgian yeasty quality I see notw that the base is a lager- maybe just a slight fruit flavor from the coffee and hops, but definitely coffee. And the finish is coffee. I don’t hate this as much as my snotty review might suggest. I think It would be a very nice cool drink at the end of a hot summer day. I’d buy it again.

3.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
vtafro (1550) - Wayne, New Jersey, USA - NOV 18, 2009
Draft @ Hulmeville Inn. This steam beer on a sniff had no showing of its coffee flavor but malts are present in both. Very different but enjoyable flavor beer.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
kramer (3376) - Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA - NOV 17, 2009
12 oz bottle. Pours a clear amber to copper body with a one finger fizzy off-white head that faded pretty quickly. Very light-roast coffee with a good bit of grainy and toasted malt on the nose. Smells pretty weird really. Same kind of flavor, the coffee really just doesn’t work for me with dry grainy malt. It’s kinda like an iced coffee after all of the ice melts. Mouthfeel is lighter bodied with a watery texture and moderate fizzy carbonation. Huh, a coffee beer that I really just don’t care for. That’s a first!


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