Breakside Brewery Fourth Wave

Fourth Wave

 

Breakside Brewery in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Strong Ale - American Regular
Score
7.16
ABV: 9.6% IBU: 40 Ticks: 18
A few years ago, we set out to create a new kind of coffee beer -- instead of a stout or porter with coffee, we wanted to create a light colored, malt-forward, rich base beer which would dovetail into the nutty, chocolatey, and fruity flavors of a lightly roasted coffee. The delicious result of that effort was our award-winning Vienna Coffee Beer.

Fourth Wave is the version of that beer brewed with single-origin Stumptown Coffee and aged for 10 months in Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrels. The name is a tribute to the latest era of the artisan coffee movement, which treats coffee as an artisan foodstuff and agricultural product. We think of our beer in the same way, and it’s no surprise that great coffee and great beer make such a fantastic pair.
 

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Breakside Fourth Wave BBA Coffee Beer 9.6% 40 IBU Well right off the bat the color took me by surprise, it seems the base beer is a coffee Vienna lager. Rusty brown with light beige foam and it has a lovely soft sweet chocolate aroma with bourbon barrel notes. Medium to full bodied and smooth with raspy prickly carbonation. The taste has oaky vanilla notes layered over the sweet fruity coffee. Quite an interesting take on a coffee beer.

Tried on 12 Sep 2023 at 04:27


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Tried on 20 Feb 2022 at 19:13


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. Amber beer with a dark cream head. Coffee aroma. Caramel and coffee flavor with vanila. Medium bodied. Caramel and coffee linger with molasses and vanilla.

Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2019 at 17:57


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

650ml bottle. Pours a murky brown-amber with a medium, creamy, long lasting, beige head that leaves curtains of lace. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, coffee, bourbon, vanilla, dark chocolate, nuts and oak. Sweet flavour of bready caramel malt, raisin, toffee, dark chocolate, vanilla, roasted coffee, nuts and oak with a mild bitter, warming bourbon finish. Medium body with a creamy, smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. Lots of complexity, an excellent Vienna!

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2019 at 04:06


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Lots of caramel and a little vanilla. Fairly boozy. Pours amber with ok head. Sweet and boozy end. Tap at drake.

Tried from Draft on 02 Jan 2019 at 06:50


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle share @ Hansen's. Amber pour with a bit of haze, some foam on top. Nose is full of coffee, toffee and some caramel nutty thing. Tastes nutty, malty base and some pretty fresh coffee there. Light tingle, more from coffee than from hops. Coffee linger in the finish. Pretty tasty, I do like this.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2018 at 09:55


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tasting at Oakes' Manor
Hazy amber colour. Sweet strong amber Lager, a bit fruity, with moderate fruity coffee flavour; it really doesn't come together.

Tried on 19 Oct 2018 at 06:31


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

650ml bottle from HP at Josh&Sunshine place. Pours a hazy copper with a tan head. Aroma is coffee with some light green pepper notes. Taste is quite sweet with lots of coffee and some barrel notes. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Oct 2018 at 06:22


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle - Green pepper and coffee. Cloudy Amber with a decent white head. Malt and coffee with a sweet finish. Not great.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Oct 2018 at 06:22


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Hazy amber. Thin head. This has a lot of coffee on the nose, and that's it. On the palate, the coffee is right there, the malts are sweet, caramelly, and it seems like this doesn't have as much Heaven Hill as it should have with that much aging, but there's a bit of roundedness.

Tried on 19 Oct 2018 at 06:17