Pliable Foe
Elder Pine Brewing & Blending in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Mild - Dark Regular|
Score
7.03
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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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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 8
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Tried
from Can
on 21 Apr 2025
at 23:25
6.4/10
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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
7.2/10
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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
7.4/10
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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
7.2/10
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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
7/10
Tried
on 06 Nov 2021
at 12:15
7/10
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
6.9/10
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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
7.2/10
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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
7.6/10
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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