Imperial Coffee & Cigarettes
Cellarmaker Brewing Company in Oakland, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.70
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This is the bigger, badder version of Coffee and Cigarettes, our popular lightly smoked coffee porter. We use over 5 lbs per barrel of Sightglass coffee for an intense coffee kick alongside a light addition of German Beechwood Smoked Malt for a touch of smoke character. We infused this with the Sightglass’s Honduran Nueva Esperanza.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap as part of a sampler at the brewery. Black with moderate brown head. Overt ash and coffee, with the roast slightly and nicely restrained. Flavor follows the taste. Very solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Apr 2025
at 05:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is you guessed it big coffee forward some ash and smoke. Taste is more of the nice roast coffee some smoke and a little tobacco.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2021
at 22:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Glass, 2-ounce, can, from and with Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savoured on December 14 2018; eye: black, opaque, ring of brown head, slight lacing; nose: roasting, intense coffee, acidity, intense; mouth: roasting, intense coffee, acidity, intense, ashy, caramel, semi-dry finale in coffee with slight ashy presence, full body, average carbonation, quite bitter, lightly sweet, harsh texture; overall: quite likable
FRANÇAIS
Verre, 2 onces, canette, de et avec Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savourée le 14 décembre 2018; œil : noire, opaque, anneau de mousse brune, très légère dentelle; nez : torréfaction, café intense, acidité, intense; bouche : torréfaction, café intense, acidité, intense, cendré, caramel, finale semi-sèche en café avec légère présence cendrée, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, très amère, légèrement sucrée, texture râpeuse; en résumé : bien aimé
FRANÇAIS
Verre, 2 onces, canette, de et avec Luc Bourbonnière (merci!), savourée le 14 décembre 2018; œil : noire, opaque, anneau de mousse brune, très légère dentelle; nez : torréfaction, café intense, acidité, intense; bouche : torréfaction, café intense, acidité, intense, cendré, caramel, finale semi-sèche en café avec légère présence cendrée, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, très amère, légèrement sucrée, texture râpeuse; en résumé : bien aimé
Tried
from Can
on 01 Dec 2019
at 21:27
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Tap @ MBCC 2017. Aromas of lots of coffee, light smokey, ashy, dark chocolate, caramel. Taste is super chocolatey, caramel, light cocoa acidity and smoke along some fruity coffee.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:54
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Crowler: Poured a pitch-black color porter with a huge dark brown foamy head. Aroma of dry bitter roasted malt with huge black chocolate notes, light smoke/tobacco notes is pretty intense. Taste is an intense mix of sweet black chocolate notes with dry bitter roasted malt notes with light smoked and some tobacco notes are also perceptible. Body is full with good carbonation with not overwhelming notes of alcohol that are perceptible. Intense and a beer that his better shared but glad I tried it.
Tried
from Crowler
on 24 Dec 2018
at 02:50
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A deep dark porter with a thin dark brown head. In aroma, sweet chocolate malt with loads of peated smoked malt, light coffee, very nice. In mouth, a nice bitter chocolate with coffee grind, musty character, light peated notes, vanilla and vanilla, alcohol warmth, very nice. Crowler from brewery. Tasted at Pushkinwows Xmas 2018 gathering.
Tried
from Crowler
on 15 Dec 2018
at 01:16
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
29.04.2015, tap @ Mikkeller Bar:
No head. Aroma is rich, espresso, dark chocolate pudding, burnt caramel, toast, rye bread, lactose, dark sugar. Taste is slightly dry, espresso, grass, hay, burnt caramel, cocoa, toast, rye bread, alcohol, dark chocolate. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mouthfeel. Nice one.
No head. Aroma is rich, espresso, dark chocolate pudding, burnt caramel, toast, rye bread, lactose, dark sugar. Taste is slightly dry, espresso, grass, hay, burnt caramel, cocoa, toast, rye bread, alcohol, dark chocolate. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mouthfeel. Nice one.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Nov 2018
at 08:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
29-09-18 // taster from the bottle at Mon Petit Cafe Stuttgart at the Pre-Zwanze-Tasting. Depp black. Cigarette smoke nose. Coffee body. Too much cigarette aromas for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2018
at 17:58
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(On tap @ MBCC 2017 Yellow Session, Copenhagen) Black pour with a tan head. Notes of nice roasted coffee really dominating, kiss of smoke, dark ashy roasted malts with a touch of caramel sweetness, chocolate, softly fruity, a little licorice, finish is dry and loaded with coffee and roast, ash, smoke, rather bitter to close out an only lightly sweet beer. Fairly long aftertaste. Medium-full bodied with no real alcohol. Really nice, about as good as smoked beer gets for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2017
at 17:23
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sample at GABF 10/07/2017, thanks to my bro for assistance with note-taking. Brown-black color with a medium khaki head that diminishes gradually. Patches of lace. Roast malt, coffee and chocolate aroma. Full-bodied with a smokey malt character and notes of roasted coffee and chocolate. The finish is roasty with a coffee and malt aftertaste. Good beer all around.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2017
at 14:34