Surly Brewing Company Coffee Bender

Coffee Bender

 

Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸

  Brown Ale Rotating
Score
7.28
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 139
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.
 

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7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Old rating from CBC 2014. Beer in the glass dark brown, nice head. Fine malty-coffee aroma. Starts mild malty, fine notes of coffee, dry malty, not too intense. Earthy dry-malty finish. Not bad!
Tried on 28 Nov 2016 at 07:22

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Intense coffee bomb. Not much else. Sone malt and light roast. Black pour with decent head and lacing. Ligh caramel in finish. Tap at Churchkey.
Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2016 at 12:21

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can. A- Sauteed vegetables, earthy coffee, roasty. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, beige head. T- Coffee, bell peppers, earthy, slightly bitter. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, strong finish. O- A pretty good brown ale. Wish the coffee would have been a sweeter type of coffee instead of a vegetal/earthy kind of coffee. Either was it was good, but maybe not the best.
Tried from Can on 12 Jun 2016 at 10:39

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Lata. @Mikkeller Bar (Barcelona). 05/03/2016 Canned on: 07/02/15 Color marrón, sabor maltoso, predominio del cafe, cuerpo medio, agradable.
Tried from Can on 07 Mar 2016 at 11:17

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
0,5l can at home courtesy of Saeglopur, big thanks. Canned 07/02/2015. almost black color, small coffee-colored head. smells of coffee, coffee grounds, roast, bitter herbs, nettle, ash, spices. nice smell. medium body, soft rather light carbonation, light mouthfeel. tastes of coffee, light charcoal, bitter herbs, nettle, roast, coffee grounds, some resin & light pines towards the finish. finishes nicely with light roast & light coffee, nettle and with a light fruitiness. good stuff, in the middle (between start and finish) the taste looses a bit, might be a issue of freshness, but overall quite nice beer, would drink again.
Tried from Can on 18 Dec 2015 at 14:44

6/10
Tried on 17 Oct 2015 at 20:34

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
500 ml canned on 07/02/15, from Mikkeller Webshop.
Dark brown, a bit copperish body, with a medium, creamy, lacing, dark beige head.
Aroma with a lot of distinctive coffee beans, espresso, cocoa, dark chocolate, subtle dark fruits.
Taste follows this, coffee-forward, with the typical Brown Ale notes far in the background.
Medium, creamy mouthfeel, with a quite lively carbonation.
Finishes dry, roasty, mainly with coffee.

Very nice. Lovely, direct coffee notes, otherwise not so much else tasteable. Drinks pretty easy, with a pleasant dryness. Overall quite one-dimensional and not among my favourite Brown Ales, but still enjoyable stuff for coffee lovers like me.
Tried from Can on 11 Oct 2015 at 15:33

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can. Clear, dark red brown, tiny offwhite head. Sweet coffee aroma, hints of chocolate. Flavour has freshly brewed coffee, notes of roasted malt, some kind of coffee-candy I once had... Sweetish with ok bitterness. Well, not bad but the candy-coffee-like flavour disturbs me.
Tried from Can on 06 Oct 2015 at 14:38

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can.Dark brown colour with small head.Aroma of coffee amd malt,flavor of roasted malt and ashtray,also nots of cocoa and some bitterness,medium body and toasted finish.
Tried from Can on 06 Oct 2015 at 02:37

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Keg at the hanging bat. Pours black, nose is roasted coffee, chocolate, mocha, taste is dry, bitter, mocha flavour.
Tried on 21 Sep 2015 at 02:56