Texas Exile
Brash Brewing Company in Houston, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.56
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The quality of the cold brewed coffee that goes into Texas Exile is important to us. That’s why we hooked up with MA coffee roaster Barismo. These guys are as serious about coffee as we are about beer. About 33 gallons of cold brewed coffee goes into each batch of Texas Exile right before fermentation, adding the perfect compliment to the brown sugar and oatmeal flavors of this huge imperial porter. Breakfast just got a punch in the neck.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pretty good. The coffee isnt up front. Shows up a lot more in the finish. Clean.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2016
at 19:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Two consecutive years I sampled this beer with an older bottled on date. Hopefully the coffee held up in this vintage because two years ago it turned acidic and bitter. *sigh* Ok, Here we go, Pitch black color with thin tan head. Aroma is sweet dark chocolate malts with earthy coffee tones.
Flavor of mild roasted malts, burnt coffee, and dark chocolate. Light-medium bodied, with moderate carbonation and a slightly acidic coffee bean in the finish. The bottle is over a year old and most coffee beers should NOT be held that long. I kind of expected the coffee to be turning at this point. Booze is also still lightly noticeable. Still better than the first time I sampled it. Perhaps I don’t really like this certain coffee bean. Still decent but I give up my search for a fresh bottle at this point.
Flavor of mild roasted malts, burnt coffee, and dark chocolate. Light-medium bodied, with moderate carbonation and a slightly acidic coffee bean in the finish. The bottle is over a year old and most coffee beers should NOT be held that long. I kind of expected the coffee to be turning at this point. Booze is also still lightly noticeable. Still better than the first time I sampled it. Perhaps I don’t really like this certain coffee bean. Still decent but I give up my search for a fresh bottle at this point.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2016
at 12:20
8/10
Tried
on 03 Sep 2015
at 09:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle to tulip. Aroma of coffee, alcohol and sweet malt. Pours an oily black with minimal brown head that only leaves a small collar. Wonderful taste of chocolate, oatmeal and coffee. Sweetness lingers. Moderate roast blends nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2015
at 22:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
How: Bottle.
Where: SMÖF 2014.
Appearance: Black colour with a minimal brown head.
Aroma: Chocolate, roasted malt, coffee.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Chocolate, a bit vinous, hops, malt.
Where: SMÖF 2014.
Appearance: Black colour with a minimal brown head.
Aroma: Chocolate, roasted malt, coffee.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Chocolate, a bit vinous, hops, malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2014
at 10:04
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
650 ml. bottle sampled @ Barley Legal Tasting Room. Procured from Hopduvel upon Benzai’s recommendation. Dark brown, beige head. Nose is huge roasted coffee beans and fresh cup of black coffee, molasses, sweet, palm sugar, liquorish. Big roasted coffee grounds, palm & exotic sugar, black coffee, roast, molasses, light hazelnut, big coffee bean sour in the back. Thick coffee mouthfeel. Thick is just alcoholic coffee as opposed to beer with coffee, interesting, I like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2014
at 08:10
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
At barely legal tasting room . Thnx to ships Pours black , no real head Smell is peppery , coffee . Taste olis peppery , coffee bitter back . Dark malts . Balanced but not intense enough
Tried
on 10 Jul 2014
at 14:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours black, bitter, chocolate, roasted coffee, dry, liquorice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2014
at 09:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brash Texas Exile (by Brash Brewing Company):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
4/V/14 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ Bitter Zoet (Zonhoven) - BB: n/a (2014-480) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Black beer, creamy beige to brown head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: mocha, sugary, some chlorine, dark chocolate. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: mocha, coffee, pretty roasted, caramel, bitter touch, bit sugary, more coffee. Aftertaste: caramel, sweet touch, lots of coffee, pretty bitter, bit sourish, red fruits, sugary, hop bitter ending.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
4/V/14 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ Bitter Zoet (Zonhoven) - BB: n/a (2014-480) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Black beer, creamy beige to brown head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: mocha, sugary, some chlorine, dark chocolate. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: mocha, coffee, pretty roasted, caramel, bitter touch, bit sugary, more coffee. Aftertaste: caramel, sweet touch, lots of coffee, pretty bitter, bit sourish, red fruits, sugary, hop bitter ending.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2014
at 12:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Ashy chocolate-coffee malt and alcohol aroma. Oil black with moderate tan head. Wood ash, chocolate and coffee ground malt flavor. Mildly bitter herbal finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2014
at 17:09