Tree House Brewing Company Bear with a Hint of Coffee

Bear with a Hint of Coffee

 

Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Brown Ale - American Rotating
Score
7.27
ABV: 6.4% IBU: - Ticks: 13
We are excited to welcome Bear back, this time with a tasteful and restrained addition of custom roasted coffee! After careful deliberation and assessment, we chose a coffee that exhibits delicate flavors of milk chocolate, cinnamon, and molasses. The base beer features flavors and aromas of toffee, caramel, chocolate, brown bread, and black coffee - a lovely pairing for the delicate, lightly roasted coffee for which it shares the glass. Though this beer is rich with flavor and complexity, it drinks smoothly and easily. We hope you enjoy!
 

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

16oz can.  Murky brown, beige head.  Nutty nose.  Malt.  Blond coffee.  Flavors same.  Toast too.  Medium full.  Dry.  Well balanced. 7 7.5 8 8 7.5

Tried from Can on 22 May 2025 at 13:48


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Close to as good as a brown ale can get without being a stout. Coffee, roast, some bitter nut. Light bitter end. Can shared at DC Beer tasting.

Tried from Can on 21 May 2025 at 02:57


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can at the DCBeer May share. Poured a deep dark brown color with a small tan head. Aroma was big roasted malt, some light coffee, roasted malts. Flavor was light nutty brown ale, with toasted malts, and a very light amount of coffee. Lives up to it's name.

Tried from Can on 16 May 2025 at 22:45


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can, courtesy of Chris M. Pours dark brown to black. Biscuit, prune, earthy, red grape, coffee grounds. Medium body. Solid.

Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2024 at 02:14


7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a dark, cola-black, with small tan head. Aroma is roasted grain, some coffee, nuts. Flavor follows. Fairly smooth, with little bitterness.

Tried on 17 Oct 2022 at 16:25



7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours an amazing nitro looking hazy brown from a can. Big coffee and roasted nut aroma along with a fair amount of roasted malt. Similar flavor, coffee, toasted pecan. Pretty good beer.

Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2021 at 23:04


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

Can (1/31/20) pour from the brewery, Charlton. Appearance is opaque black (dark brown at the absolute bottom of the glass) with excellent sparkle at the edges of the glass, 2-finger foamy beige head with good retention and no lacing. Aroma is moderately strong roasted malt/coffee bordering on char/cigarette butt. Mellows as it warms but strength also decreases. Taste is initial mellow roasted malt with a hint of vanilla but middle and end is much more bitter roasted malt/coffee, though not as far to the char/cigarette butt side as the aroma. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste with, actually, a little bit of sweet in there. Overall, initially there is a somewhat unpleasant burnt quality that detracts from the experience. Dissipates as it warms/sits. This is OK but nothing special. Much better Tree Houses out there.

Tried from Can on 20 Apr 2020 at 04:11


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

Can split at L6, thanks to New Ken, 21/03/19. Light black to brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is light roast, chocolate, toffee, coffee grinds, mellow spice trail. Taste comprises toffee, coffee bean, cocoa sprinkle, dark malts, dried fruits. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent coffee laden beer.

Tried from Can on 13 Jan 2020 at 15:38


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

Can shared at the Columbus Tasting 21/03/2019. Many thanks A ola brown coloured pour with a lasting halo of beige head. Aroam si mineral, seawed, black malt, coffee, dried coffee, light oak, vanilla. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, jammy berries, cherry, bakewell. Palate is semi sweet, moderate woody.

Tried from Can on 31 Mar 2019 at 16:16