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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3/10
Tried
on 07 Oct 2017
at 18:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Cellarmaker, pours black with a small brown head. Aroma is loaded with robust espresso upfront, a touch of smoke and moderate roasted malt. Flavour is deep and robust, with lots of coffee, a fair amount of smoked malt, roasted malt and a little cocoa. The coffee steals the show though, subduing the smoke. Wonderfully constructed.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2017
at 21:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2017 - Yellow Session
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, caramel and smoke. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long chocolate, coffee, cocoa, caramel and smokey finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, caramel and smoke. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long chocolate, coffee, cocoa, caramel and smokey finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 08 Jul 2017
at 16:26
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2017. Pitch black pour with a beige head. Notes of coffee, cigarette smoke, roasted malts, smoke, licorice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Imperial Coffee and Cigarettes on 01 Jun 2017 at 14:33 - Score: 8
Tried
on 21 May 2017
at 10:10
7/10
LCI for MBCC 2017
Tried
on 15 May 2017
at 22:44
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sample at MBCC, 2017, Yellow session. Poured almost black with a bubbly off white head. The aroma is roasty smoky sugary malt, dry coffee, light chocolate. The flavour is light liquorice with a dry ashtray, light spicy coffee palate. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
on 12 May 2017
at 07:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Quite high on the coffee flavours and aromas. But wonderfully brewed and exactly what they want, very sippable beer. Cellarmaker SF.
Tried
on 13 Apr 2017
at 18:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at the brewery taproom. Pours deep oily brown with minimal head, just a slight tan ring. Heavy scorched wood in the nose, rich cocoa, dark berries. Medium to heavy sweet flavour, with some chewy chocolate, dark fruits, more scorched wood, bitter earth, raisins. Full bodied, chewy, with fine carbonation. Oily finish, with bittersweet dark chocolate, faint coffee, more dark, ripening berries. Not bad overall.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Feb 2017
at 06:54
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour at the RateBeer Best 2017 Grand Tasting/Bottle Share. Black with light tan head. Aromas of dark chocolate, coffee. Tastes of coffee, caramel, dark chocolate. Medium-full body with a dry finish. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2017
at 00:42
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Growler pours with a deep dark body that supports a thin tan head. The aroma offers up rich oily yummy coffee, some chocolate, dark roasted malts, some burnt malts and then an earthy mild smooth smokiness. The taste delivers so much yum with rich oily dark roasted coffee nuanced with sweet malts and a bit of caramel. It then gets into black licorice, some chocolate and then a faint earthy smokiness. Just delicious.
Tried
from Growler
on 15 Jan 2017
at 09:04