Coffee Bender
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Rotating|
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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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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Surly Coffee Bender (by Surly Brewing Company):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
9/I/15 - 1Pt. can @ home - BB: n/a, canned: IX/26/14 (2015-21) Thanks to sebletitje for sharing the can!
Clear purple brown beer, creamy beige irregular head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of coffee, roasted, no, just coffee. MF: soft carbon, medium body, smooth creamy texture. Taste: lots and lots of coffee, more coffee, soft bitterness, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: lots of coffee, dark chocolate, more coffee still... Not my cup of tea. :p
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
9/I/15 - 1Pt. can @ home - BB: n/a, canned: IX/26/14 (2015-21) Thanks to sebletitje for sharing the can!
Clear purple brown beer, creamy beige irregular head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of coffee, roasted, no, just coffee. MF: soft carbon, medium body, smooth creamy texture. Taste: lots and lots of coffee, more coffee, soft bitterness, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: lots of coffee, dark chocolate, more coffee still... Not my cup of tea. :p
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jan 2015
at 13:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from De Bierkoning, cheers Potje! Dark brown colour, dense beige head. Aroma of coffee and chocolate, espresso, just light fruity. Flavour is sweet, caramel, coffee, espresso, chocolate, coffee and hoppy bitter finish with a little chocolate. Light-bodied, oily mouthfeel. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Sep 2014
at 11:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Mikkeller and Friends, Copenhagen. Dark brown pour with a beige head. Unsurprisingly lots of coffee in the aroma, splash of chocolate and vanilla in there too. Smoky coffee flavours with a hint of raisin. I could easily have one of these late at night with a bourbon biscuit or a chunk of plain/dark chocolate. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Aug 2014
at 12:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Mikkeller online shop; dark brown pour with a big frothy light beige head, strong roast coffee aroma, taste has rich quality coffee, a hint of pine resin, some vanilla, caramel some woody notes, enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jun 2014
at 14:17
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy brown body with a medium off-white head. Loads of coffee with some smokiness in it. Sweet caramel malt. Almost like iced coffee or something similar. Very interesting and very good.
Tried
on 25 May 2014
at 14:06
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sample at CBC 2014. Poured a hazy dark brown with a big frothy light tan head. The aroma is big coffee earthy mineral. The flavour is medium bitter with a light earthy hop spice bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
on 08 May 2014
at 11:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled @ CBC 2014. Very dark red-brown color with a nice dark red glare coming through. Medium sized beige head. Overpowering aroma of coffee, mocha and espresso. Taste malts, dark malts, again strongly coffee, mocha and espresso and nicely bitter. Very heavy aroma, but more balanced flavorwise imo.
Tried
on 07 May 2014
at 04:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Strong coffee aroma smooth drinking no bitter after taste. Nice coffee color good beer.
Tried
on 04 May 2014
at 15:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can (canned 1/6/14) poured into a nonic pint glass. Pours a dark brown almost black color with half an inch of light tan head. Big coffee on the aroma, bits of dark chocolate. Tasting notes of big roasty and burnt coffee, dark chocolate, caramel. Very coffee forward on the aroma and taste, coffee flavors dominate. Thin mouthfeel. Medium carbonation and body with a semi-dry finish. Pretty easy drinker for coffee lovers.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2014
at 22:00
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 6
thnx to Belgbeergeek Pours almost black , good fast fading white head . Smell is pure cold coffee, and so is the taste . Bitter, indeed , and I can find some stuff in there I might like, but the cold-coffee factor ruins it all for me ...
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2014
at 14:23