Clear Sky - Daybreak
Wolf's Ridge Brewing in Columbus, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Cream Ale Series|
Score
6.95
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***The BEST Coffee Beer in the World!***
GOLD 2023 World Beer Cup
SILVER 2022 World Beer Cup
SILVER 2021 GABF
GOLD 2020 GABF
SILVER 2019 GABF
GOLD 2021 US Open Beer Championship
*plus many other accolades from every year we've been making Daybreak!
Just as the break of a new day ushers in endless possibilities, this provocative variant of our popular Clear Sky Cream Ale awakens new and intriguing tastes. We infuse our pre-prohibition styled ale with light roast beans from Columbus’ own One Line Coffee in addition to robust vanilla. What results is an aroma that defies convention and a flavor that opens up like the new morning.
GOLD 2023 World Beer Cup
SILVER 2022 World Beer Cup
SILVER 2021 GABF
GOLD 2020 GABF
SILVER 2019 GABF
GOLD 2021 US Open Beer Championship
*plus many other accolades from every year we've been making Daybreak!
Just as the break of a new day ushers in endless possibilities, this provocative variant of our popular Clear Sky Cream Ale awakens new and intriguing tastes. We infuse our pre-prohibition styled ale with light roast beans from Columbus’ own One Line Coffee in addition to robust vanilla. What results is an aroma that defies convention and a flavor that opens up like the new morning.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at Man in The Moon. Clear yellow with a white head. Aroma of ground coffee, cream and light roast. Almost a bit like the espresso chocolate you get in Merci-packs. Taste follows with some vanilla too. A bit sweetish and thin, but overall quite enjoyable. Holds up coffee well.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Jan 2018
at 13:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 6/18/2017. Pours slightly hazy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of nutty coffee, vanilla, cream, cracker, corn, white bread dough, biscuit, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of coffee, vanilla, pale malt/corn, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of nutty coffee, vanilla, cream, cracker, corn, white bread dough, biscuit, and light herbal/grassy earthiness. Minimal herbal/grassy hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of nutty coffee, vanilla, cream, cracker, corn, white bread dough, biscuit, and light herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of coffee, vanilla, pale malt/corn, and light earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Minimal dryness. Medium carbonation and light body; with a very smooth, fairly creamy/grainy, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. Not too watery feeling. Perfectly clean lager flavors, zero yeast notes present; but probably covered up by the coffee/vanilla. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very good flavored cream ale. All around nice robustness and balance of coffee, vanilla, pale malt/corn, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very well balanced between all flavors. I felt the base beer was far superior. This feels thinner/lighter on body/flavor. Not quite as crisp on the finish. Could have benefited using a darker roasted coffee blend for more complexity. A very tasty and enjoyable offering otherwise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2017
at 18:38
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Wolf’s Ridge. OK, so I’m a sucker for this variety of beer. It’s unexplainable, but I love it. The pale with the coffee thing... yee-ha! Anyhow, this was a good take on the style. It has a nice clean gold body with aromas of mild coffee and a bit of creaminess. Flavor is crisp and coffee-based. Wonderful!
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2017
at 17:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the "Tap Room Anniversary with Special Bottle Release" event on 01/23/2016. The beer pours a clear pale golden color with a medium thin white head that dissipates steadily to a film. Short strings of lacing. Aroma of roasted coffee and malt. Light-bodied with a roasty coffee and malt character, with a touch of sweetcorn in the background. The finish is roasty with a lingering mild coffee aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
from Draft
at
Wolf's Ridge Brewing
on 28 Jan 2016
at 15:10