Foundation Brewing Company Burnside - Coffee

Burnside - Coffee

 

Foundation Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  Brown Ale Rotating
Score
7.35
ABV: 5.1% IBU: 25 Ticks: 11
For Coffee Burnside, we start with Burnside, our traditional brown ale. We add locally roasted coffee which amps up the roasted notes of coffee, burnt sugar, and chocolate already present in the base beer. Each batch of Coffee Burnside uses a different variety of coffee from one of the area’s great coffee roasters. The batch from January 2020 was sourced from a single farm in Guatemala.
Grains

Pale, Oats, Crystal, Coffee Malt
Yeast
House British
ABV
5.1%
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can to becher glass.

See my full review of Burnside because this beer is basically Burnside but with coffee in it and the coffee just changes the aroma and flavor and slightly adjusts the texture by making it just a touch drier.

I'd have this again.

Tried from Can on 31 Jan 2026 at 16:57


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16 oz. Aroma has notes of coffee, roast, dark bread, vanilla. Pours hazy root beer brown with a one finger beige head that settles into a ring after a minute. Taste has a mild sweetness backed by faint bitterness, with roasty coffee flavors. Very tasty.

Tried from Can on 20 May 2022 at 05:05


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Coffee and roast. Dark amber pour with decent head. A small touch of rye. Light bitter finish with some lemon peel. Tap at Max's.

Tried from Draft on 04 May 2022 at 20:11


7

Mostly clear dark brown body medium foamy off white head. Coffee nutty toasty aroma. Coffee nutty toasty flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/4/7/4/15 3.7

Tried from Can on 16 Dec 2021 at 19:55


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

16oz can. Big coffee aroma and flavor. Medium bodied, easy drinking brown ale body. Coffee centered. Good.

Tried from Can on 10 Oct 2021 at 00:02


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

January 2020 can from Holiday Market. Pours a chestnut brown with a finger of beige foam that dissipates. Light roasted coffee on the nose with mild cacao nib, toasted malt and faint tea leaf aromas. Light bodied, easy drinking with lots of coffee on the palate. Some more cacao nib and toasted grain as it warms up. Easy drinking brown with great coffee support.

Tried from Can from Holiday Market on 21 Feb 2020 at 02:24


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can pour into nonic pint glass from Downtown Discount Beverage. Appearance is murky dark brown (cross between iced tea and muddy water when held up to the light), effervescent sparkle at edges of glass, quickly-dissipating 1/2-finger beige head with no lacing. Aroma is strong roasted malts and coffee, milder baker's chocolate. Taste is strong roasted coffee (bordering on char), roasted malt. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with slightly-thicker-than-water texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, delicious, strong coffee but not much else..

Tried from Can on 21 Jun 2019 at 01:39


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

4 oz pour on draft at Aslin's 3rd anniversary party. Brown with light tan head. Aromas of coffee, malt, cocoa. Tastes of cocoa, coffee. Medium body with a dry finish.

Tried from Draft on 21 Oct 2018 at 00:13


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft pour at the Aslin 3rd Anniversary party. Poured a very dark brown color, with a small, white head. Aroma was pleasant coffee notes, roasted malts. Robust, roasted character. Actually kind of refreshing.

Tried from Draft on 21 Sep 2018 at 05:22


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Canned 10/26/17, drunk 2/9/18.
Dark brown-mahogany. Large, light tan-beige head shows moderately strong retention. High clarity.
Big bouquet of aromatic, lovely, fruity coffee to open things up. Vanilla-fudge from the malts with light tootsie roll and some fruit and mineral from the yeast. Everything combines to give off a very nice English-American hybrid porter of sorts, much moreso than a brown ale, though I suppose the roast is really just the actual coffee. Regardless, it's clean, complex (tons of varied chocolate character) and shows no alcohol or burnt/acrid/stale coffee character.
Chocolate-fudge-prune-raisin is the force of the flavor, the coffee integrated nicely and providing more fruit and light earth. Lightly bitter roast, plum and vanilla notes help offset the sweetness, though it's well-attenuated anyways. Tight carbonation and good malt suppleness. Vanilla-fudge and light hop and coffee-like bitterness linger on the clean, vibrant, flavorful finish.

Tried from Can on 05 Jun 2018 at 15:49