Morning Nightcap: Salted Caramel
Arcadia Brewing Co. in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.06
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Coffee Porter brewed with BIGGBY® COFFEE, now with the flavor of salted caramel!
The beer lover’s consummate coffee beer, a perfect marriage of rich coffee and creamy porter. Brewed with BIGGBY® COFFEE’s Papua New Guinea blend, a roast created especially for this collaboration. Emotes rich notes of dark chocolate, fruit, and tons of refreshingly intense coffee flavor. Oat malt lends a powerfully silky body and hints of nuttiness. Reminiscent of a refreshing cold-brew, but with a pleasant buzz. Pairs perfectly with your choice of smoking jacket, bathrobe or favorite slippers. Because when the day drags on and the night’s too long, it’s time to pickup a Nightcap!
The beer lover’s consummate coffee beer, a perfect marriage of rich coffee and creamy porter. Brewed with BIGGBY® COFFEE’s Papua New Guinea blend, a roast created especially for this collaboration. Emotes rich notes of dark chocolate, fruit, and tons of refreshingly intense coffee flavor. Oat malt lends a powerfully silky body and hints of nuttiness. Reminiscent of a refreshing cold-brew, but with a pleasant buzz. Pairs perfectly with your choice of smoking jacket, bathrobe or favorite slippers. Because when the day drags on and the night’s too long, it’s time to pickup a Nightcap!
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent release. Pours crystal clear very dark brown color with a 2 finger fairly dense and rocky khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big nutty medium roast coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, toffee, brown sugar, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of salt, dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malts, coffee, caramel, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with great strength. Taste of big nutty medium roast coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, toffee, brown sugar, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of salt, dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/grassy hop and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of nutty coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, toffee, brown sugar, toasted dark/brown bread, light salt, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, coffee, caramel, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great hop/roast bitter/sweet balance; and zero cloying/acrid flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 5.4%. Overall this is a delicious flavored coffee porter. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, coffee, caramel, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Great fruity/nutty coffee presence, balanced salted caramel flavors, and well rounded porter malt complexity. Never overly roasty or bitter. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2018
at 00:11