Fourth Wave
Breakside Brewery in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Regular|
Score
7.16
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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.
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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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a dark mahogany with light to moderate head. Aromas of dry oaky bourbon, gin barrel, toasted malts, and raisins. Flavors of toasty oak, clean bourbon, earthy coffee, dark fruit and bread crust. A nice balance of flavors
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2018
at 03:54
9/10
Tasty coffee lager, it's light and smooth but oh so flavorful, dangerous combo with 9.6abv too. Damn flavor packed lager! Also makes it perfect for any weather. Not to heavy at all for summer. Caramel, vanilla, coffee. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2018
at 16:19
8/10
Tried
on 05 Aug 2018
at 09:07
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @ tasting with Caesar and Jerohen. Clear amber color, decent to medium sized off-white to beige head. Heavy coffee aroma. Flavor is malts, coffee, chocolate, bourbon, sweetish a bit. Decent to medium body, medium carbonation. Solid and quite interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2018
at 14:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a hazy brown, kind of like an iced coffee with just a small splash of milk, thick pillowy cream colored head lasts. Aroma is somewhat white russian-y, coffee, booze. Similar flavor but not overpowering, well-balanced and nice. A well done coffee beer that's not immediately heavy, like the various coffee porters and stouts. Pretty good beer.
Tried
on 25 Jul 2018
at 02:16
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draught. Amber colour with medium head. Aroma is bourbon, with a bit of coffee. Flavour is also bourbon with coffee. Coffee finish.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2018
at 03:29
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a clear amber orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out fragrant coffee beans upfront, followed by bourbon barrels and some vanilla. Flavour is complex and deep, with kids of coffee beans, bourbon and vanilla. Wonderfully integrated, with a great coffee and bourbon combination. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2017
at 22:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bomber. Pours a clear amber color with a medium white head. A huge coffee nose, rich, vanilla. Really not getting much bourbon here which is surprising considering the 10 months in heaven hill. Big rich coffee, light malty sweetness. Caramel, toffee, more creamy coffee. Good. But the coffee is so strong is even overpowers the barrel.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2017
at 01:02