Dugges Bryggeri Irish Coffee

Irish Coffee

 

Dugges Bryggeri in Landvetter, Västra Götaland, Sweden 🇸🇪

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special
Score
7.06
ABV: 13.9% IBU: - Ticks: 12
Historians have several theories regarding the name and origin of this beer, but none is conclusive. One explanation is the meaning of ”Irish coffee” for the words ” Irish and coffee” as the beer should taste like Irish coffee. Hard!

It all started with a version from a stout series called Grand. A series that we had started brewing in America and then brought back to our brew-house in Sweden. And a version with all the caramel crunchiness you could ever need in a beer. A part of a journey towards the perfect stout, towards utopia. Step by step, beer by beer, on and on. Forever!

We took that beer and let it sit in Kentucky rye whiskey barrels for a while. That's it. Sound simple? Well, it isn't. But, there's no way as complex, labor intensive, and patient trying to explain it as it is to do.

Emptying the barrels, we split the beer up into two versions. A coffee one, this one, with coffee from our buddies at Gringo Nordic Roasters. And, a straight-up barrel-aged one: Butterscotch. The beers' names are what they taste like—making the complicated understandable. Fresh brew!
 

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7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2024, Friday. Almost black beer with a beige lacing. Aroma and Taste of vanilla, coffee, dark malt, sweet roasted bitter finish.
Tried on 20 Nov 2024 at 10:14

4.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4.5 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Pours black, no head. Scent is butterscotch (diacetyl). intense, quite unpleasant even . Taste is full, sweet, caramelly. Butterscotch, booze. Sharp. not at all my kind of beer...
Tried on 16 Nov 2024 at 01:20

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sample at Billie's Craft Beer Fest, Antwerp 2024-11-08. Black with aroma of cream, toffee, caramel, coffee, whiskey and oak. Very sweet and light to medium bitter.
Tried on 11 Nov 2024 at 11:17

8/10
Tried on 15 Sep 2024 at 19:22

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4
--Sample, thanks fonefan! -- Black, small beige head. Caramelly nose. Very sweet with full body and rounded, sticky mouthfeel. Caramel and butterscotch dominates. Some vanilla and bourbon. Warming sticky finish. Mostly cloying caramel.
Tried on 10 Jan 2024 at 21:17

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sample (thanks fonefan!). Pitch black colour with a small brown head. Aroma is chocolate, some roasted, toffeeish, coffee and mild vanilla tones to it. Flavour is toffee, fudge, some chocolate, coffee and mild vanilla tones to it with burnt sugary elements too. Smooth and pleasant.
Tried on 06 Dec 2023 at 18:56

7/10
Tried on 28 Nov 2023 at 19:25

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Tried on 28 Nov 2023 at 19:22

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Pours a mean black, small brown head. roasted malts, chocolate, toffee, chocolate powder in the aroma tiny bit boozy, with the boozy note, also notes of wood and whiskey. flavor is whiskey barreled imp stout, whiskey, honey like sweet notes, woody notes, oak, coffee, faint light caramel. alc. somewhat hidden, but can be felt as warming and adding a solid body to the brew. bit too sweet and bit too artificial to be totally great, but indeed a very solid imp stout utilizing the whiskey barrelling well.
Tried from Can on 23 Oct 2023 at 15:37

8.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
Burk på Chapter med Per. Här doftar det bourbon. ja eller rye. Klunkar på och jävlar vad balanserad god rackare , Choklad , bourbon ,lite vanilj . lagom beska och lagom rostad ton och lagom bourbon . Jättegod
Tried on 12 Oct 2023 at 18:45