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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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2013 - Day 2, Session 1. Pours clear, ruby-brown with a fine, tan cream head. Big, juicy coffee snout. Light to medium sweet flavor with rich coffee, light bitterness, subtle tobacco. Great balance. Light to medium in body with fine to average carbonation. Mild bitterness at the end with robust Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and toasted sugars. Great stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Sep 2013
at 02:01
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2013. I've nosed a fer coffee beers today, but this is quite literally bringing back memories from when I was younger and smelled on my mother's coffee box. It's just like putting your nose down a good old box containing grounded coffee. It looks light blurry and deep dark red in the glass, and it has a small islandy and sidesticking light beige top. I really really love this aroma! And guess what, it continues in the flavor. Try chewing on a little bit of fresh grounded coffee beans, and your get what this tastes like. So scary lightdrinkable that without realizing it I have finished my glass way to soon. Some may say that it's a bit one dimensional but this is imo a fantastic beer! 04.05.2013
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Aug 2013
at 01:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Hazy brown liquid with medium light brown head. Aroma of coffee, toast, biscuit, bread, roasted malt, spicy coffee and light pine. Taste is dry and light to medium bitter with notes of coffee, biscuit, toast and light pine. Light to medium bodied with medium carbonation. Nice and coffeeish.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jul 2013
at 07:42
8/10
Rich coffee, lots of nuttiness, sweet hazelnut and grainy coffee
Tried
on 27 Jul 2013
at 15:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draught, 5.1%. Pungent fresh unbrewed coffee aroma. Almost clear brown colour. Light brown head. Good roasted flavour, milk chocolate and a distinct coffee note, very pleasant. Low to medium bitterness.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2013
at 11:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a can shared at home. Pours a dark cola with an ecru head. Coffee nose. Somewhat thin mouthfeel. Flavors of chocolate and coffee. Smooth and slightly bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jun 2013
at 18:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12.06.2013, 1 pint can @ home:
07.10.2015, 1 pint can @ home:
Nice mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly rich, espresso, lactose, caramel, dark malts, chocolate pudding, nuts, roasted grain. Taste is slightly dry roasted, dark malts, espresso, roasted grain, caramel, chocolate, grass, nuts, lactose, hay. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and mineraly mouthfeel. Nice.
07.10.2015, 1 pint can @ home:
Nice mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly rich, espresso, lactose, caramel, dark malts, chocolate pudding, nuts, roasted grain. Taste is slightly dry roasted, dark malts, espresso, roasted grain, caramel, chocolate, grass, nuts, lactose, hay. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and mineraly mouthfeel. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jun 2013
at 14:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Draft. A dark red beer with no head. The aroma has notes of hops, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of coffee, malt, and caramel, leading to a dry finish. The body is light.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 May 2013
at 15:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
CBC. Hazy brown with a beige head. Aroma is malty, caramel and heavy coffee. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 040513
Tried
on 11 May 2013
at 04:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught @ CBC. Pours dark brown with a small offwhite head. Aroma of roasted malt, rich coffee, espresso. Flavor is malts, rich bitter coffee, espresso, little vegetables. Thin body, soft carbonation, dry and bitter finish. Litte unbalanced and to much coffee for my liking. 040513
Tried
on 11 May 2013
at 00:08