Pot & Kettle - French Roast
Trillium Brewing Company in Canton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.82
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Pot and Kettle with Cold Brew is just one of our many inspired collaborations with Barrington Coffee Roasting Company. With decades of experience hand-selecting and roasting single origin beans from across the world, cold brewed Barrington coffees provide the perfect addition to our signature oatmeal porter. Like a fresh pull of espresso, Coffee Pot & Kettle pours a dark, almost black color with a dense, sepia brown head. Aromas of fresh brewed coffee, nutty cocoa, dark fruits, burnt-caramel, and subtle vanilla waft out of the glass. Moderate in body with medium carbonation; Deep, roasty flavors of cacao, earthy-coffee, mocha, toffee, and dark malt sweep over the palate with an oatmeal-based creaminess and gentle bitterness. To fully explore the wide range of unique aromas and flavors derived from the diverse array of coffees available, we continuously experiment with varying Barrington roasts and blends with each batch of Pot & Kettle with Cold Brew.
ABV: 7.5%
MALT: American 2- row Malt, Rolled Oats, Pale Chocolate, Black (Patent), Carafa III (Dehusked Black), Caramunich, C-120, C-80
HOPS: Columbus
COFFEE: Barrington French Roast
ABV: 7.5%
MALT: American 2- row Malt, Rolled Oats, Pale Chocolate, Black (Patent), Carafa III (Dehusked Black), Caramunich, C-120, C-80
HOPS: Columbus
COFFEE: Barrington French Roast
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7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
32oz growler filled mid September and drunk 10/3/15.
Still shows a lovely pour with a beige head topping a mahogany body that gets slightly hazier as it gets lower in the growler. Head slowly recedes to cover.
Dark roast in the nose combines with a slight bit of prunes and bittersweet chocolate. Seems quite dry from the nose, which is appreciated. The coffee is certainly pervasive but not overdone/dominant and allows enough porter character to shine through, especially as it warms. Alcohol pretty well in check, though there is a touch of it on the finish. No flaws.
Plentiful coffee flavors up front of prunes, vanilla, heavy roast and with some lightly sweet toffee notes coming to the rescue (malt) to help balance all of the roasted bitterness. Extremely soft/supple texture and tight carbonation is a huge plus here and while it somewhat intensifies the perceived strength of the flavors, it nonetheless makes the beer very drinkable. Roast, treacle, burnt caramel and oats on the finish, with powerful coffee and malt flavors and some warmth from the alcohol. Probably just a bit too strong for its own good; would really enjoy this at about 5-6% abv. Still, the flavors are quite delicious and the texture is phenomenal. As well, it’s perfectly clean.
Still shows a lovely pour with a beige head topping a mahogany body that gets slightly hazier as it gets lower in the growler. Head slowly recedes to cover.
Dark roast in the nose combines with a slight bit of prunes and bittersweet chocolate. Seems quite dry from the nose, which is appreciated. The coffee is certainly pervasive but not overdone/dominant and allows enough porter character to shine through, especially as it warms. Alcohol pretty well in check, though there is a touch of it on the finish. No flaws.
Plentiful coffee flavors up front of prunes, vanilla, heavy roast and with some lightly sweet toffee notes coming to the rescue (malt) to help balance all of the roasted bitterness. Extremely soft/supple texture and tight carbonation is a huge plus here and while it somewhat intensifies the perceived strength of the flavors, it nonetheless makes the beer very drinkable. Roast, treacle, burnt caramel and oats on the finish, with powerful coffee and malt flavors and some warmth from the alcohol. Probably just a bit too strong for its own good; would really enjoy this at about 5-6% abv. Still, the flavors are quite delicious and the texture is phenomenal. As well, it’s perfectly clean.
Tried
from Growler
on 05 Oct 2015
at 21:04