108 Cold-Brew Coffee Ale
Spoetzl Brewery (Shiner) in Shiner, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.51
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For our 108th birthday, we’ve brewed up something special. Our first coffee ale, crafted in collaboration with Austin’s own Chameleon Cold-Brew, made with dark-roasted specialty malt and Chameleon’s beloved cold-brewed coffee, it’s sure to wake up your tastebuds. But it won’t be here forever, so pour yourself a fresh cup while you can.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Deep brown with a small off-white head. Aroma and taste are a pleasant coofee texture that's actually very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 06:04
8/10
You know what I say about coffee...
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark coppery brown with a slight beige head. Aroma of nice coffee. Near med body. Flavor is nice coffee, but it's all thinnish - both body and flavor. Needs more malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2017
at 22:32
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
This review was imported from my RateBeer ratings.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a dark amber with a tight, white, foamy head that dissipates slowly. Aromas of yeast, chocolate, and a slight hint of lemon. Taste is mildly sweet with watered-down flavors of chocolate, coffee, and caramel. Body is medium and on the watery side. Texture is thin with average carbonation. Finish is on the astringent side and has a bit of a "metallic tang" to it.
Overall, I found the watery flavor and body to be underwhelming.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a dark amber with a tight, white, foamy head that dissipates slowly. Aromas of yeast, chocolate, and a slight hint of lemon. Taste is mildly sweet with watered-down flavors of chocolate, coffee, and caramel. Body is medium and on the watery side. Texture is thin with average carbonation. Finish is on the astringent side and has a bit of a "metallic tang" to it.
Overall, I found the watery flavor and body to be underwhelming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2017
at 15:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Clear dark brown with mahogany highlights. Small tan head. Light sweet aroma of roast malt and cocoa powder. The flavor is Porter that was watered down with cafe mocha. Not bad just thin bodied and thin flavored.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2017
at 16:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours reddish brown, healthy finger of tannish foam.
Good smell of roasted coffee with some chocolate that seems to be on the sweet side.
Coffee and chocolate dominate the taste. Bitter sweet overall. I like it.
Good smell of roasted coffee with some chocolate that seems to be on the sweet side.
Coffee and chocolate dominate the taste. Bitter sweet overall. I like it.
Tried
on 02 May 2017
at 16:28
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Andover Liquors. Appearance is clear dark ruby red with minimal sparkle, no head and no lacing. Aroma is dark-roasted coffee. Taste is bittersweet roasted coffee. Palate is medium bodied with thick texture, lively carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, tastes like sweetened ice coffee. Tasty but much more coffee than ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2017
at 20:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle sent by Shiner for review: The pour is brown like a lighter porter that makes up its base. A foamy head fizzes away like a soda, leaving a slight trail of foam. Smell has some lightly-roasted coffee ahead of some similarly roasty malt. There’s a bit of chocolate in the aftertaste at the finish. Coffee is a good match with a porter or stout. With dark malt adding to the coffee’s taste, you do run the risk of being kept up the night after some coffee beers, and that kind of happened to me, too. So let that be a lesson about pacing myself.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2017
at 19:38
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle bottle picked up at Total Wine in Reno
Pours clear dark brown with a small beige head, light lacing. Aroma of coffee and green peppers. Flavor of dark malts, coffee, vanilla and chocolate
Better as it wanted up
Pours clear dark brown with a small beige head, light lacing. Aroma of coffee and green peppers. Flavor of dark malts, coffee, vanilla and chocolate
Better as it wanted up
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2017
at 20:54
7/10
Nice coffee flavours, short finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2017
at 21:24