Elder Pine Brewing & Blending Pliable Foe

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Elder Pine Brewing & Blending in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸

  Mild Regular
Score
7.03
ABV: 3.8% IBU: 15 Ticks: 10
Beer designed for breakfast. English-style Dark Mild (i.e. Low ABV Brown Ale) aged with Dark Sulawesi Kalossi coffee beans, a type of coffee grown on the side of a volcano in Indonesia. Intensely flavorful for such a small beer.
 

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

4/21/25 Can Fenwick Silver Spring
Prev 7.0 2-15-21

Tried from Can on 21 Apr 2025 at 23:25


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tons of coffee. Light lime. Coffee kind of takes over the big malt flavor milds otherwise have. Bitter end. Tap at brewery.

Tried from Draft on 31 Mar 2024 at 00:10


7.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap. Pours opaque mahogany, medium tan head, good lacing. Aroma is heavy coffee, roasty espresso. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter. Medium body.

Tried from Draft on 21 Mar 2024 at 22:52


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

Can pour from trade with AirForceHops--thanks, Chris! It's a murky, cloudy brown with light sparkle, several-finger beige foamy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is strong roasted coffee (a bit on the charred side), baker's chocolate. Taste follows aroma exactly. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, flat carbonation with late liveliness and mostly bitter finish. Overall, exceptional strength of aroma and flavor for the ABV, but a bit to the charred side for my liking. The mouthfeel detracts from the experience.

Tried from Can on 13 Dec 2021 at 02:52


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

16 oz. can. Aroma is a abundance of roasted coffee beans. Flavor has a little bit nutty hints and roast. And of course coffee is the main flavor. Very mild ale that could sampled for breakfast or a nice after dinner brew. Great flavor for such a low ABV.

Tried from Can on 08 Dec 2021 at 19:32



7

Dark brown body medium foamy tan head. Big coffee chocolate aroma. Dry coffee roast flavor. Medium light body moderately low carbonation. 8/4/7/4/15 3.8

Tried from Can on 05 Nov 2021 at 23:27


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

(Thanks, Andy! Nimbleprop) Can. A- Coffee grounds. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, beige head. T- Coffee grounds. P- Light body, slightly thin texture, average carbonation, roasty finish. O- Loads and loads of generic coffee grounds throughout. Doesn't seem like much and pretty one dimensional, but coffee in a light beer works best this way. So many local coffee blondes but this one is much better. Not much bitterness or astringency. Nice.

Tried from Can on 14 Mar 2021 at 15:53


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Can, courtesy of nimbleprop and the US holiday beer swap. Pours dark translucent brown. Coffee, biscuit, nutty, chocolate, little plum and raisin. Little lacking in body. Nice.

Tried from Can on 26 Jan 2020 at 02:30


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can pours a cola brown, off white head.  Nose has a lot, malt, nuts, cocoa nibs, coffee grounds, Folgers.  Flavor adds some carob and brown sugar.  Finishes dry and a little snappy thanks to the coffee.  Lotta flavor for less than 4%.  8 3 8 4 15

Tried from Can on 18 Nov 2019 at 17:36