Coffee Bender
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Rotating|
Score
7.28
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Brown Ale with Coffee Brewed For: Pairing The Two Best Things.
Refreshing like an iced coffee, aromatic like a bag of freshly roasted beans, and satisfying like your favorite beer.
Guatemalan coffee, roasted locally, is added to our house oatmeal brown ale. Cold press coffee aromatics and intense coffee flavors are balanced by the oats in the malt bill, resulting in a cappuccino-like creaminess.
Refreshing like an iced coffee, aromatic like a bag of freshly roasted beans, and satisfying like your favorite beer.
Guatemalan coffee, roasted locally, is added to our house oatmeal brown ale. Cold press coffee aromatics and intense coffee flavors are balanced by the oats in the malt bill, resulting in a cappuccino-like creaminess.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Canned. Poured brown. Creamy beige head. Coffee and roasted malts. Pretty good
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from BeerMalade. Malty aroma and taste, coffee, light roastyness, medium to high bitter. Medium body, malty coffee bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2025
at 22:59
5/10
Magus, mõru, kohvine, nats hernene, vesine, linnaseline, nats metalline. Okish.
Tried
on 14 Dec 2024
at 22:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown with lasting head. Aroma and flavour have a certain coffee note but strangely not with a roasted note. More like a coffee flavoured piece of chocolate. Perhaps due to an underlying sweetness from the base Brown Ale.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2024
at 21:09
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Dark brown with a creamy, beige head. Aroma full of roasted coffee grounds. Taste is roasted, mildly bitter throughout, full of coffee the whole way through. Finishes the same. Medium-bodied, slightly watery texture. Can’t define the brown ale underneath what is essentially a coffee drink. One-dimensional.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2021
at 18:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Freshcraft. Hazy dark brown, light beige head. Coffee aroma. Coffee, roasted malt chocolate.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2021
at 13:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Tapped, Maplewood. Appearance is clear dark brown with no sparkle, finger width beige head with good retention and trace lacing. Aroma is bittersweet roasted earthy malt and coffee. Taste is coffee and earthy roasted malt and euro hops. Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied with smooth texture soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall decent aroma and flavor but not decadent. Good. 4,7,8,4,15,3.8
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jul 2021
at 21:58
First one two sips were a bit weak coffee flavour, though rounds out nicely. Thanks NFB! Pic from my goalie.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Dec 2020
at 18:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 6
Black body with almost no head. Coffee aroma. Coffee taste balanced by malt. I think I taste some slight bitterness with the coffee and malt in the finish
Tried
on 21 Nov 2020
at 04:42
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16oz can clear deep dark brown. Thin light tan head. Very nice soft roasted coffee aromas. Mellow and soft but full coffee flavors. A touch of sweetness, no harsh roast coffee bitterness. A few notes of chocolate. Just delicious.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2020
at 23:31