Nightwatch Coffee Lager
Lighthouse Brewing Company

I ordered this in a pub on tap after seeing the glowing reviews. Are you all delusional or just hammered? This is a below average lager with a strong artificial coffee flavour. That’s it. No roasted malt, no real coffee, just a cheap artificial coffee favouring. The kind you would find in coffee flavoured sweets, wafters, etc. This is not a beer.

Clear yellow-tan color. Poured a tall head that noisily collapsed down to a clear surface in half a minute. Low flow of small bubbles from the bottom of the glass. Left no lacing.

The dominant smell is a slightly-off coffee with a light touch of maple and a hint of light roasted malt under it all. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard for a couple of seconds. There is a hint of some pepper and some green vegetable.

The dominant flavor is a very, light slightly-off coffee with a hint of sweetness. Very light hazelnut. There is a touch of barnyard right at the start. Some malt shows up after it warms a bit. The aftertaste is more coffee and a mild bitter and sweetness fades in as the coffee fades out.

Low carbonation, but not flat. Could hardly feel anything on my tongue as it grew to medium-large bubbles. Feels like it is cleaning my teeth a bit, like some high acid soft drink.

Very interesting take on a coffee infused beer. The coffee dominates everything so it seems like there is hardly any beer here. Truly a breakfast drink. I see from the label that the coffee is cold brewed, so the "slightly-off coffee" smell and taste makes more sense as it would be missing a lot of the familiar hot brew flavors.

 

Cold pressed coffee lager.

Appearance - Pours a deep gold with two fingers of bubbly white head.

Smell - earthy,leafy, floral, and herbal hops, brewed coffee, coffee bean, cocoa, lemon, grainy and biscuity malts, and earthy lager yeast. It kind of smells like a coffee crisp chocolate candy bar.

Taste - earthy, leafy, floral, and herbal hops upfront. The brew then goes into the brewed coffee, coffee bean, cocoa, and lemon. The grainy, biscuity malts and the earthy lager yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes crisp and slightly off-dry with the coffee bean and brewed coffee lingering.

Overall - An easy drinking lager that has a nice welcome addition of locally made cold brew coffee. I like how this brew wasn't dominated by the coffee but acted as a nice supporting cast member. A pleasant and quaffable brew that took me back to eating a coffee crisp chocolate candy bar.

Purchased a 473 ml can from the government liquor store while staying in Victoria inner harbor 5-23-19. Best by 7-11-19.

Beer was poured golden brown with a decent white head.

Nose was coffee forward which was pleasant.

Taste was coffee played nicely into a clean lager beer. Finish was clean and not acidic.

Mouthfeel was light and refreshing.

Overall a nice little beer!

650ml bottle - so this is apparently inspired by the concept of being up all night, having to work. And drinking. Just sayin'.

This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of random streaky lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, acrid coffee beans, a weird earthy spiciness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, day-old coffee grounds, sort of spoiled milk, some damp minerality, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and musky floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, but for a hint of cuppa Joe acridity messing with my crabby sensibilities here. It finishes trending dry, the coffee flavour predominating in the lingering sphere.

Overall - yup, what we have here is essentially a craft lager, with some craft (I guess) coffee mixed in, which results in a quaff that heavily favours the latter. This is cold, thin coffee, with a mild alcohol bent, which I suppose someone must like (who has two thumbs and isn't using them in any manner other than hitting the space bar right now?).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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