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Coffeehouse Porter
Berkshire Brewing Company
- From:
- Berkshire Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- American Porter
Ranked #43 - ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- 91
Ranked #7,411 - Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 9.58%
- Reviews:
- 496
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 11, 2023
- Added:
- May 03, 2002
- Wants:
- 91
- Gots:
- 167
This rich, dark ale takes BBC’s popular Drayman’s Porter and adds Dean’s Beans organic coffee to the mix, creating an enticing blend of everyone’s favorite beginning and end of day beverages. Robust and aromatic, Coffeehouse Porter is sure to please, no matter what time of day you choose to enjoy it.
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Ratings by ChainGangGuy:
Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia
4.3/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.3/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Appearance: Pours out an effectively opaque black body with a tall, airy, beige head. A nick of lace here or there as the head recedes.
Smell: Inviting, coffee-scented aroma, with additional notes, primarily malty, smelling of dark chocolate, caramel, charred barley, and a few crushed up Whoppers. Also a noticeable trace of dark fruits.
Taste: Dark, roasty malts tasting of 60% cocoa bittersweet chocolate, moderately roasty coffee, caramel, and malted milk. Quite a bit like chilled, sweetened coffee. Hint of vanilla. Slight plum fruitiness. Very mild hop character. Bitterness predominately coming from the roasted malts and coffee. Small bite of acidity. Roasty, drying finish with a close of coffee.
Mouthfeel: Just barely clocks in at medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Fairly soft mouthfeel.
Drinkability: Smooth, easily drinkable, and enjoyable. As a longtime fan of both beer and coffee, I enjoyed this one. Thanks to monsterzero for the opportunity to finally try BBC's CP.
Sep 27, 2010Smell: Inviting, coffee-scented aroma, with additional notes, primarily malty, smelling of dark chocolate, caramel, charred barley, and a few crushed up Whoppers. Also a noticeable trace of dark fruits.
Taste: Dark, roasty malts tasting of 60% cocoa bittersweet chocolate, moderately roasty coffee, caramel, and malted milk. Quite a bit like chilled, sweetened coffee. Hint of vanilla. Slight plum fruitiness. Very mild hop character. Bitterness predominately coming from the roasted malts and coffee. Small bite of acidity. Roasty, drying finish with a close of coffee.
Mouthfeel: Just barely clocks in at medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Fairly soft mouthfeel.
Drinkability: Smooth, easily drinkable, and enjoyable. As a longtime fan of both beer and coffee, I enjoyed this one. Thanks to monsterzero for the opportunity to finally try BBC's CP.
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Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
3.79/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Porter
Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a dark brown color with a small head of tan colored foam. The head has a good level of retention, adding slowly over time and leaving a good level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is a nice mix of brown bread and cocoa, with notes of coffee and caramel. Along with these smells comes a bit of molasses and nut, as well as a little bit of brown sugar and crème.
Taste – The taste starts with a brown bread and lightly toasted doughy smell mixed with a decent showing of nuttiness as well as a good showing of molasses and brown sugar. The coffee is rather light for a coffee porter, with it just being a very subtle flavor in the background throughout the taste. Toward the end of the flavor profile the sweet and the coffee increase a bit, and with a touch of milk and crème, one is left with a moderately roasty taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium to slightly thicker with a lower carbonation level. For the dark nature of the brew the feel is good and makes for an easy sipper.
Overall - A decent porter overall. Would have liked a bit more coffee, but all in all, rather tasty.
Nov 11, 2023Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a dark brown color with a small head of tan colored foam. The head has a good level of retention, adding slowly over time and leaving a good level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is a nice mix of brown bread and cocoa, with notes of coffee and caramel. Along with these smells comes a bit of molasses and nut, as well as a little bit of brown sugar and crème.
Taste – The taste starts with a brown bread and lightly toasted doughy smell mixed with a decent showing of nuttiness as well as a good showing of molasses and brown sugar. The coffee is rather light for a coffee porter, with it just being a very subtle flavor in the background throughout the taste. Toward the end of the flavor profile the sweet and the coffee increase a bit, and with a touch of milk and crème, one is left with a moderately roasty taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium to slightly thicker with a lower carbonation level. For the dark nature of the brew the feel is good and makes for an easy sipper.
Overall - A decent porter overall. Would have liked a bit more coffee, but all in all, rather tasty.
Reviewed by dkoehler42 from New York
4.2/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.2/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This coffeehouse porter looks and smells exactly like you think it would. It's a dark brown with an off white head and a full body aroma of coffee. The taste is closer to a dry stout with coffee and sweetness on the back end. It's not bad, but tastes differently than the smell would suggest.
May 11, 2023Reviewed by Roy_Hobbs from Connecticut
3.64/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pour is deep, deep brown bordering black with a finger of mocha colored head with excellent retention. Aroma is really nice, with plenty of roasted malts and some chocolate. Coffee definitely takes the lead on the tongue, followed by plenty of roasted malts and a little bit of chocolate. Feel is thin-ish but with a decent amount of carbonation.
Overall good beer.
May 07, 2022Overall good beer.
Reviewed by KP7 from Massachusetts
4.02/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
One of my favorite beers from Berkshire. As you would expect, there is a nice amount of coffee, both in aroma and taste, and the rest is pretty close to their regular porter. The only downside for me is that it is thin. If they could improve the body, this would be a great beer. As is, it is still quite good.
Dec 21, 2021Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.3/5 rDev -18.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.3/5 rDev -18.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Coffeehouse Porter (2021) from Berkshire. Received from @Roy_Hobbs in BIF #14. 16 oz can. Stored at home at 38 degrees. Reviewed 2/12/21. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Can stamped on bottom “BORN ON 8/16/21”. Served at 44.2 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 53.4 degrees.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Deep Amber (SRM 15), clear.
Body – Brown (SRM 30), opaque. When rear-lite, some light penetration at the edges, reddish.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.8 cm, aggressive center pour), wheat, diminishing to a two to three mm crown fed by effervescence and a thin complete cap with rocks.
Lacing – Good. Irregular ring of extremely tiny bubbles which eventually evolves into torn curtains.
Aroma – 3 – Initially roasted chocolate malt, no hops, no yeast. Weak coffee.
Flavor – 3.5 – Taste follows the nose but slightly bitter, no hops, no yeast. No ethanol (6.2 % ABV, according to website, NOT marked on container) taste or aroma. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3.5 – Thin, watery, soft but lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.25 Unremarkable appearance – looks like every other porter. Both nose and taste are mostly coffee, little porter. If not for the carbonation, I wouldn’t have suspected this was anything but coffee.
Dec 02, 2021Can stamped on bottom “BORN ON 8/16/21”. Served at 44.2 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 53.4 degrees.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Deep Amber (SRM 15), clear.
Body – Brown (SRM 30), opaque. When rear-lite, some light penetration at the edges, reddish.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.8 cm, aggressive center pour), wheat, diminishing to a two to three mm crown fed by effervescence and a thin complete cap with rocks.
Lacing – Good. Irregular ring of extremely tiny bubbles which eventually evolves into torn curtains.
Aroma – 3 – Initially roasted chocolate malt, no hops, no yeast. Weak coffee.
Flavor – 3.5 – Taste follows the nose but slightly bitter, no hops, no yeast. No ethanol (6.2 % ABV, according to website, NOT marked on container) taste or aroma. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3.5 – Thin, watery, soft but lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.25 Unremarkable appearance – looks like every other porter. Both nose and taste are mostly coffee, little porter. If not for the carbonation, I wouldn’t have suspected this was anything but coffee.
Rated by Manta200 from Kentucky
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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Nov 03, 2020
Coffeehouse Porter from Berkshire Brewing Company
Beer rating:
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100 with
1123 ratings
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