Espresso Amber Ale
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyAmber / Red Ale Rotating
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Score
6.85
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* Espresso is Maine roasted in collaboration with local hand-crafted roaster Coffee by Design in Portland.
* In partnership with Transfair, a non-profit that works towards giving farmers and farm workers a livable wage and supporting efforts to sustain environmental stewardship in the communities.
* This is the first Fair Trade Certified™ beer brewed in the United States.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours amber with tan head. Nose and taste of espresso beans, vanilla and caramel malt. Lightish body. Very smooth and much better than expected.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at WBF-Raleigh on 04/24/2010. Clear copper body with a medium creamy tan head. Sweet coffee and pepper aroma. Coffee flavor with light pepper. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bomber from some store in San Diego! Pours hazy amber with a slight, but foamy, off-white head. Damn, if it doesn’t smell like espresso. Medium body with mild, foamy carbonation. Flavor starts espresso, moves to a suggestion of chocolate, heads towards coffee, and seems to finish with a caramel touch - and then the espresso coffee aspect begins again. I’d say the coffee used is pretty good coffee.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours hazy deep amber into a shaker. Fluffy off-white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Espresso and chocolate malt aromas. Crisp with front to back light espresso and a lasting slightly hopped espresso finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle. Amber-brown color, thick and hazy. Thin, of-white head. Pronounced coffee aroma. Rich coffee taste as well, and the smooth caramel and amber malt tones complement the beer well. Some hoppy bitterness is quickly overtaken by the coffee bitterness. On the lighter side of full-bodied, I found this beer quite tasty but hard to enjoy in quantity. Overall a well done beer, just not my favorite style.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy, light-brown with a thin, fizzy off-white head. Loads of espresso - dark, bitter espresso - in the aroma. Wow, flavor is kind of ridiculous. Wouldn’t expect this out of an amber, but I suppose it works alright. Tons more espresso, quite bitter, some light sweetness, moderate roast. Sweetness comes in a bit during the tail and finish. Medium body, light carbonation. Really, really interesting, and pretty good as well - I just wouldn’t drink more than one of these.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours clear amber color with off white head. Big coffee aroma. Flavor of coffee and toasted malts. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle pours deep nearly clear copper with weak tan head. The aroma is a cup of coffee and dry coffee grounds. The first swig is very nice bringing in modestly dark roasted coffee moving into chocolate, burnt malts and a touch of sweet caramel candy. It just stays that way into the finish where the coffee holds on deep into the after taste. I like this. The caramel and chocolate notes really make the whole thing come together.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
@NH Brewers Fest–on tap-pours a retaining thin tan head and copper color. Aroma is espresso. Taste is espresso-medium/dark malt, erthy hops bite.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
This sounded like an odd concoction, and it lived up to expectations. Cask at Churchkey. Very cloudy copper colored with no head to speak of. Aroma of dilute Starbuck’s. Taste was pretty similar, light coffee. No balance, no complexity.