Burnside - Coffee
Foundation Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
7.31
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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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
CLW (16859) reviewed Burnside - Coffee from Foundation Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz. can from Spruce Creek Provisions. Appearance shows darker brown, fast dying head. Nose of light cocoa, nuts, bold roasted coffee. The coffee is just lovely, not over done yet, strong.
Smooth bold roasted coffee with gentle cocoa and rich earthy coffee that lingers well after the sip. Body is about proper for a brown ale. You could say it is a one trick pony but it is a very tasty brew.