Day 13: Peak Organic Brewing Company's Espresso Amber Ale
Beer and coffee. Two things I love. I like them in and of themselves, but they are also symbols of freedom from Mormon tyranny. Here they are in the same bottle. Double huzzah!
I was immediately thinking of the Drew Carrey Show, where they made Buzz Beer. I was also thinking that I like the coffee notes that show up in many porter or stout style beers. I may have been getting myself a little too worked up.
This beer is worth trying mainly because it is different, and the flavour is interesting without being offensive. The espresso they throw in definitely makes a showing, coming through quite clearly. Maybe too much, actually. While I like tasting a hint of a coffee "note" in beer, I can't imagine enjoying a beer "note" in coffee. So there must be a line somewhere along that continuum where you pass from interesting to not worth consuming. This stays on the interesting side of the line, but is far from hitting the optimal flavour zone. Or perhaps the espresso simply isn't being paired with the right sort of beer.
This beer had a little darkness to it, but I have a feeling that was mostly coming from the coffee. It might work better if the coffee was actually added to a stout with some well-roasted malt. That way there would be more of a melding than a contrast.
I'll put this one in the category of "cool to have a few around so you can share them". Four tankards!
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