Reviewed from notes taken during the Great Nebraska Beer Festival. Aroma has a nice, moderately strong, roast coffee aroma with some malt notes of light roast and moderate chocolate. A hint of green pepper with some light dark fruit esters. Pours a dark brown with a small, thick, tan head with decent retention. Flavor is similar to the aroma with quite a bit of freshly roasted coffee. Medium light roast malt note with moderate chocolate notes. Medium low bitterness with a light astringency. Low dark fruit esters, mostly plum and berries. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with medium light carbonation. Medium low astringency and low alcohol warmth. An alright coffee beer, but I prefer my coffee to have a character more similar to a cold pressed coffee. The astringency was a bit higher than I would prefer. Malt balance was really nice as were the low dark fruit esters.

Draft @ GABF 2013. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty coffee aroma. Roasted malty coffee flavor with hints of chocolate. Has a roasted malty coffee finish.

Sample at GABF 2013. Pours near black with a medium beige head. Aroma of big roast, chocolate, coffee, caramel and light licorice. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear deep amber brown with a brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a nice combination of dark grains, coffee and roasted malts. Flavor starts with dark grains and coffee and is balanced by roasted malts.

Tap at KCBM competition. Pours clear but dark brown with a strong tan head that never fully fades. Aroma is thick and fumy coffee... well and basically that is it. Taste is a lot of seltzer and mineral coming in and hiding some of that coffee, which is still there but mixing with other flavors. Some prune and tobacco in there as well. Its decent but a bit too aggressive on the nose and then alternately masked in the flavor.

4 oz taster at the brewpub. Pour is black with ruby highlights, thin ring of an off white head. Aroma of pretty much office coffee. Taste is porter, coffee and synthetic creamer. This really tasted like java, not fresh coffee, but coffee that’s been sitting around for awhile. Palate is medium and a bit slick. This one really didn’t do it for me. Greg mentioned this was much better last time he had it; I certainly hope so.

Like iced coffee! Very dark, tinted with red. Thin dense head. Awesome coffee aroma, coffee and chocolate in the flavor, dry finish. I had previously called this one of their best and worthy of its awards, but now I can’t understand why. My original comments above are accurate, this is definitely like iced coffee. But the palate is *very* thin here. Not much actual real beer or porter flavor. In a blind tasting between this and an actual glass of iced coffee, I may not be able to pick this out.