Mourning Wood
Local Option Bierwerker in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Pub Dog Brewing CompanyAmber / Red Ale - American Regular
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Score
7.05
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Mourning Wood is an oak-aged coffee amber ale. Fresh American oak used during the aging process and Dark Matter’s El Salvador San Jose pulp-natural coffee aromatically drive the beer yet they remain subtle components of the beers’ overall flavor profile. This amber colored, medium-bodied, and extraordinarily well-balanced ale has a delicate taste that is appreciated by beer drinkers of all palates.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Coffee and nice caramel malt notes with a touch of cocoa. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Cocoa and nice mellow cocoa notes. Nice and mellow. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2015
at 23:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
500ml bottle. Light hazy amber color with off white head. Malty aroma, light caramel, wood, coffee. Sweet and bitter taste, caramel and coffee. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2015
at 07:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
$7.99 500 ml bottle from Wine Warehouse, CHO. Pours hazy brownish with a large beige head. Smells of coffee and chocolates. Tastes of chocolates, coffee, chocolate powder, and candy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2015
at 07:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear amber colour, white head. Aroma of coffee, light wood. Coffee flavour, malts, light sweet notes. Bit sweet finish, wood, coffee liquer, like Tia Maria.
(from 50cL bottle @ weekly tasting, Oirschot. Thanks for sharing, joes!)
(from 50cL bottle @ weekly tasting, Oirschot. Thanks for sharing, joes!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2014
at 00:32
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Baker’s chocolate and coffee nose, rich and odd for such a lighter style of beer, but I’m ok with that. Cloudy ochre, thick yellow head, beautiful lacing. Coffee and oak flavor, the chocolate notes not sensed on the palate. Dried leaves finish and maybe just a hint of caramel. Coffee is dominant. Medium body. Unique and nicely done.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2014
at 10:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 0.5 L brown bottle poured into a glass. Amber with lots of suspended particles and small off-white head. Aroma caramel, medium body, low carbonation, and some big-bubble lacing. Taste is rich coffee, caramel, some nuts, hints of oak, with hop balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2014
at 17:11
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Summer Santa 2014. Pours murky brownish amber with a creamy reddish beige head that leaves a small trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is slightly malty with biscuits, caramel, coffee, grapefruit rinds, moist grass, toffee, compost and lemon zest. Taste is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly malty with dark bread, biscuits, caramel, grapefruit juice, coffee, moist grass, pine needles, resin and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is soft, round, slightly creamy and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet, bitter and slightly malty with caramel, coffee, grapefruit rinds, moist grass, resin and lemon zest. Much better than I expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2014
at 11:09
8/10
Tried
on 12 Sep 2014
at 18:40
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Morning wood is 7.8% and will possibly be exported to Japan, nice! An oak aged american coffee beer. It has the full on coffee aroma you are more likely to associate with a stout than such a pale clear amber beer. Medium bodied and smooth with a sandy round mouthfeel. The taste is fantastic with a really soft coffee flavor that’s incredibly approachable and light drinking great stuff. Another genre bender which seems to be what Local Option do best - I dig it.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2014
at 17:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Extremely well done if this is the style we’re putting this in. The barrel is done just right, and just enough coffee to give a hint. This actually reminds me more of an altbier in the overall feel. Pours slightly cloudy orange with good head and lacing. Tap at Black Squirrel.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Aug 2014
at 19:31