Coffee Oatmeal Brown Ale

Deep crisp and very clear lighter brown coloured body with a bit of a caramel and toffee glow along with a nice off-white head, about two to three centimetres tall. Aroma of light peat, a ton of brown and caramelised sugars along with some astringent malt with grain, toffee and some earth noticeable. Medium-bodied; Strong grain and toffee notes with some earth, peat, malt, alcohol and especially coffee notes around the edges, with the malt and bitterness the strongest throughout. Aftertaste shows a lot of coffee and nutty flavours with some toffee and caramelised, brown sugars with a dose of grain and peat around the edges with some cereal and earth and peat all showing throughout. Overall, a nice and well-balanced beer that shows some great flavours and pungency and perhaps a bit too obtuse for me, but showing some good oat and malty flavours, but a lot of coffee and earth throughout with some subtle, but good complexities. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can purchased from The Beer Cave (Bob's Sunoco) in Callaway, Maryland on 06-March-2018 for US$3,49 sampled at home on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on 19-April-2018.

16 ounce can from Free Will Tap House at Peddler's Village in Lahaska, PA. Copper red pour. Frothy beige head. Rich coffeeish toasted malt aroma. Flavor is toasted malt and sweet coffee. Chewy, sticky mouthfeel. Slightly tannic notesin finish.

Poured into a nonic pint glass, the appearance was a sturdy dark brown color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off at a moderate pace to leave some light lace running around the sides of the glass fairly nice.
The aroma had a nice blended of roasted coffee, sweet oats/grains, some milk chocolate, dark chocolate, touch of vanilla, caramel, nuts, sweet wood and a touch of Irish coffee creamer at the end.
The flavor leaned slightly to the sweet side allowing the roast to make a strong effort to come in for a balance but stays just a pinch behind. Aftertaste was a fully strong coffee sweet and roastiness. The finish was long, smooth, malty and sweet.
The palate was about medium bodied with a good carbonation and ABV. Nice smoothness rolling over my tongue.
Overall, pretty good brown ale that I would like to come back to if I could get it again.

Tap at The Brazen Head, Brooklyn. Dark brown color, small steady off-white head. Aroma has caramel a.d coffee. Medium-bodied. Sweetish flavor has strong cold coffee and caramel. Low bitterness. A bit too simple for being 8%.

12oz bottle. Ruby brown color. Too thick to see thru. Aroma does have coffee and some moderate sweet malts with fruit accents. I feel like I smell oats as well. Coffee is light in flavor. A not very coffee, coffee beer. A ligt bitterness at end of flavor. Fizzy, mineral finish. I see a noncoffee coffee beer here.

On tap at Rattle n Hum - East, pours an amber brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out very nicely toasted espresso beans, not much else. Flavour isn't as nice as the aroma, with notes of espresso, light roast, and some burnt oats. Nicely constructed but a little too burnt. Solid.

Sample at GABF 10/04/2014, thanks to my BIL for assistance with note-taking. Clear amber-brown color with a thin light beige head that recedes steadily. Strings of lace. Aroma of coffee and malt. Medium body with flavors of roasted coffee, malt and slight fruit. The finish is roasty with a coffee aftertaste. Decent overall.

8oz pour at Al’s of Hampden pours a clear amber with zero head. Nose has all coffee, mild caramel, brown sugar, but just lots of Folger’s. Flavor has more sugar than the nose lets on, caramel, brown sugar and... coffee. Some rootbeer too. Sweet finish.