Can you smell it? That sweet heady scent of Saturday? It's here! And it's accompanied by something even more amazing...
Coffee.
Sweet brown life giver, saviour of many a morning. But what happens when you combine sweet earthen coffee with beer, the KING of all that is liquid?
Perhaps little coffee babies with beards? Hmm.
Well, let us see!
This one is an IPA, the second is an Imperial Stout. I don't often compare the giggly pale beers against the doughty darks but I thought that in this case as they were both coffee based, why not?
This one is from a Glasgow brewer using coffee beans from a Glasgow coffee roaster. It's doesn't get any better than that! Come on the Glasgow's!!
A fine pour here. A trembling amber gold. Almost brown gold. I like it. A lacy froth of a head on top. Looks champion.
It's time for it to face the music though. Come here you!!
Oh man, that was rank. I mean I am trying to be kind but piling a load of bitter coffee on top of bitter hops isn't quite shaking my merengue.
If it was a coffee or it was a beer then either would be fine but not together so regretfully... 4/10 booms! Sorry fellow Glaswegians.
What next?
Something Wolfy this way comes!!
This one is a bloody monster. 10% ABV!? And it's another beer/coffee collaboration. I have only just noticed that it has been aged in whisky barrels too. Well, well, the price didn't suggest so. Maybe I got a bargain!
Let's see what it's like. Fierce Beer have had some mighty triumphs in the past. Can this be another?
It looks like a coffee!! Ha, it really does. It has that black coffee look about it, it is fair fizzing up too in the glass, like sherbet poured in oil.
Bring it on!
Man, this is lovely. Deep toasted malt and caramel mellowed by vanilla followed by the roasted coffee and whisky fumes. What can I say but...
We have a winner! Hot flaming donkeys! It's fucking lovely! Irish coffee, beer style!! And its got added wolf!
Awooooo!!
Any excuse to shoe in a bit of Shakira. For the music of course. No other reason... Whistles innocently...
This stuff is the schnizz and I don't say that ever! 9/10 booms!!
What a fine end to a tasting!!! And might I also take a moment to call out PalNet! Are they the future? Possibly! Check them out and whilst you are there get yourself some tokens and stake them!
Cheers and have a great weekend!!!
