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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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. No doubt this is a coffee beer. It tastes like coffee with sugar and cream. Brown, approaching black body with a frothy, tan head. The aroma has notes of mild coffee, milk chocolate, roast, sweet cream. The flavor is lightly to moderately bitter and lightly to moderately sweet. It finishes lightly sweet and modaretely bitter. Medium body, watery texture and lively carbonation. Nicely balanced beer, though a bit too sweet. I am not sure I would drink more than one can of it at a sitting, but that one can is good — sweet coffee with a bitter finish from the roast and hops. A nice after-dinner beer.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Aug 2010
at 18:47
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16oz can. Pretty close to 14 bucks a four-pack, ouch. Brown-black, with a massive beige head. Pronounced coffee aroma, not so much chocolate as straight up bitter coffee. Smooth and medium bodied, this is indeed a great coffee-beer, despite the price that only a MN-homer could love. Mellow, soft carbonation. Coffee and chocolate tones, maybe some soft vanilla. Quite well executed, this is very drinkable while being unapologetically and unmistakably full of coffee. Worth seeking out.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Aug 2010
at 23:37
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can 1pt.16fl.oz. @ home.[ Courtesy of Summer Secret Santa ]. Clear medium to dark red brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate malt, coffee, coffe dusty, moderate hoppy, dusty. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light heavy bitter with a long duration, coffee, cold coffee. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100723]
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2010
at 09:09
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from a trade with phaleslu. Pours dark brown with khaki head. Aromas of coffee and toasted malts. Coffeee, chocolate and toasted malt flavors. Medium body with soft carbonation. Nice brew. Thanks Peter.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jul 2010
at 08:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can @ Papsø. Thanks. Pours unclear dark brown with small bubbles on top. Nose is roast and caramel. Flavor is coffee bean and roast. Quite mild with some caramel on the side. Smooth and full bodied. Ends dry. Really liked this. Very tasty!
Tried
from Can
on 24 Apr 2010
at 03:33
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Tasting at Papsø, can
Hazy dark mahogany color. Mild aroma, some roasted malt and coffee (the coffee that you brewed yesterday). Slim mouthfeel, dry dark caramel, burnt sugar and coffee flavor; the final is not strong, but it just has burnt malts and ashes. Even if aroma and flavor are not too strong, they are clearly not what I like.
Hazy dark mahogany color. Mild aroma, some roasted malt and coffee (the coffee that you brewed yesterday). Slim mouthfeel, dry dark caramel, burnt sugar and coffee flavor; the final is not strong, but it just has burnt malts and ashes. Even if aroma and flavor are not too strong, they are clearly not what I like.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Apr 2010
at 08:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can 50 cl. Courtesy of SecretSanta. Pours a clear reddish brown with a beige head. Distinct and very dry coffee accents in the nose - espresso style. Medium body, sweet roasted malt and vanilla again with distinct coffee notes. Dryish but not overly bitter finish. 230410
Tried
from Can
on 23 Apr 2010
at 07:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16oz can scored via trade. Pours a watery although opaque black with a thin, creamy, slightly cloudy beige head. The aroma is a nice mix of approachable coffee and sweet malts with a touch of nuttiness. Flavor is again well balanced between medium roast coffee and sweet malts. Tastes a bit like a cup of coffee with turbinado sugar. There’s a distinct brown sugar sweetness as well. Medium bodied, lightly sweet finish. There’s a bit of creaminess to the mouthfeel that combined with the sweet finish makes one thing of a good, not overly sweet, coffee ice cream.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2010
at 16:15