Mexican Chiapas Cold Pressed Coffee Ale
Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

1L, capped and swing-top bottle. Made with cold pressed Galileo Coffee (who I presume sourced their beans from southern Mexico?), so sez the beer-specific marketing babble on the label.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium bronzed amber colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, barely foamy, and mostly just bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of low-lying fog bank lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of dry, bitter artisanal coffee, grainy caramel malt, a faint earthy nuttiness, subtle sour milk essences, and some indistinct earthy and weedy noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, coffee-laced chocolate, gritty, and mildly roasted caramel malt, cream, a more robust oily nuttiness, vague dark fruity notes, and some plain earthy, floral, and leafy hoppiness.

The bubbles are pretty laid-back in their barely supportive frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, only a touch of that toasted coffee acerbity making a scratch in the new paint here. It finishes off-dry, the base caramel malt still blending well with the lingering coffee and cocoa notes.

Overall, a rather pleasant java-forward brown ale (and this from an agnostic at best, and heretic at worst, in regards to that other 'brew'). Lots going on, and the coffee doesn't overstay its welcome, leaving us with a nice Coffee Crisp reminiscent session beer, of sorts (it's a big bottle).

 

 

 

 

Howe Sound Brewing 'Mexican Chiapas' Cold pressed Coffee Ale @ 5.5% , served from a 1L pot stopper purchased for $9.40
A-pour is amber from the bottle to a murky brown in the glass with a small beige head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-cold pressed coffee
T-coffee brown ale with a slight bitter finish
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer & coffee brown ale
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