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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9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
THX! to Belgbeergeek for this one. I was previously interested in this one. 568 ml. can sampled. Pours a dark brown with little head. Smells straight-up like coffee, the real grounds, the actual stuff, roasted, just pure intense actual coffee, no beer ingredients, interesting. Taste is straight up iced coffee, like a glass of iced coffee with some ice cubes & carbonation, roasted, grounds, coffee beans, light chocolate, caramel. Easy to drink. This is more coffee than beer. I am not a coffee drinker but one doesn’t need to be that to enjoy iced coffee & I quite liked this. Cheap & in 4packs, I would buy this regularly, it is quite easy to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Feb 2014
at 22:31
8/10
Tried
on 01 Jan 2014
at 09:01
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Refrigerated 16 oz. aluminum can poured into an English pint glass. Pours translucent chestnut brown with four finger beige head. Aroma is roasty coffee, medium body, low carbonation, and big bubble lacing. Taste is lots of cheap roasty coffee. This one is not for me, really big coffee flavor.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Dec 2013
at 19:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Really thought I had rated this! Pours oaky brown, immense 3 finger off-white head. Nose is cold pressed coffee and malted oats. Nice big mouthfeel, loads of coffee acidity and bitterness. Goes down easy and is the most drinkable coffee beer I’ve ever had.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2013
at 14:48
8.8/10
Awesome
Tried
on 24 Nov 2013
at 13:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg@CBC20133 Dark copper colorr, small steady brownish head. Loads of rosted coffee, espesso in the nose. Medium-bodied. Lots of coffee, but in very drinkable form. Backing maltyness. Interesting.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2013
at 09:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can shared at Craft Clerko, big thanks to Ryan who wasn’t there in person, 25/10/13. Lightly hazed chestnut brown with a good sized beige head. Nose is coffee cake icing, light roast malts, espresso, tirimasu. Taste dampens a little compared to the nose, coffee, dark malts, coffee and walnut cake mix. Medium bodied, fine carbonation with coffee notes in the finale. Decent for style, the coffee kick went a little downhill form the nose though.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Nov 2013
at 12:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can split at craft beer co clerkenwell. Big thanks to Ryan. Big fresh brewed coffee aroma. Dry and bitter with a touch of creme caramel. Pour is dark caramel with red notes, with a thin cream head. Flavour is big coffee, roast, woody touch. Crisp carbonation and medium body, I’m not a huge fan of coffee, but this a pretty nice stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Nov 2013
at 12:26
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can ofSurly’s Coffee Bender shared at the first Kinki Beer Tasting. This is a beer that doesn’t taste like beer. It is sublime coffee goodness but balanced. It pours a slightly cloudy brown with a roast coffee aroma & a medium body. The flavor is not that roasty, it’s coffee beans a bit bitter but balanced. I’m not a coffee drinker but I thought it was quite good. Better than the regular Beer Geek Breakfast but just a step below the Beer Geek Brunch Weasel.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Nov 2013
at 20:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can thanks to Ryan. It pours clear deep amber-brown with a thick beige head. The nose is strong instant coffee, toast, grinds and earth. The taste is toasty, earth, instant coffee, light caramel, brown bread and grain with a bitter, toasty finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. A bit of a let down.. fairly one dimensionable, but drinkable enough.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2013
at 09:49