Breakfast Hustle
New Glory Craft Brewery

 

This is one of those golden beers with a bunch of dark beer attributes (coffee, chocolate etc.). I didn't realize this was a Fieldwork collab. Cool, they kept the cost down kind of.

Pours relatively clean in that most familiar beer color of all time (dark gold). 2/5" white head. The aroma is worthy. Plenty of a a coffee note, but with some light white chocolate vibes to it. Tad bit of golden grain going on. Strong presence of vanilla and cinnamon. Seems to fit into the coffee cake niche.

Taste is less sweet than expected, they went all in on the coffee and vanilla, cocoa/chocolate and cinnamon to a lesser extent but plenty noticeable. Its always a difficult sell to me that a beer like this is a stout, its missing the requisite thing about a stout in my book, heavily roasted malt resulting in a dark appearance. So what. Lower carbonation in the mouth feel.

I think beers like this are neat to try and have once in awhile, but far from a staple in the fridge.

Clear syrupy-looking gold with a fat finger of near-white head. Sheets of lacing.

Strong roasted coffee in the nose with a slight nutty impression and hint of sugary sweetness and cinnamon far behind.

The taste is the reverse: strong sugary sweetness throughout, with some underlying coffee, as well as a hint of fruit (cherry?), a hint of vanilla and some cinnamon in the finish. It definitely is reminiscent of coffee cake.

Medium bodied and somewhat syrupy feel with low carbonation.

This is a fun beer that delivers as advertised. It’s sweet, but not over the top.

Appearance - Pours crystal clear and golden in color with an off-white, quarter finger width head. Fair retention before dying to a thin, broken layer of suds with a razor thin ring around the edge of the glass. A few lines and some small spotting makes up the lacing.

Smell - Coffee hits the nose first, with hints of maple and cinnamon. Very faint vanilla and chocolate.

Taste - Starts with a bit of coffee roast, maple and cinnamon. Mid-taste hits on vanilla, and then chocolate comes through on the finish.

Mouthfeel - Medium-bodied with fair, tingly carbonation. Slick, slightly creamy texture with a smooth, slightly dry finish.

Overall - Good golden coffee stout. Not the most flavorful, but drinks easy and it's nicely balanced.

Sweet vanilla and chocolate notes one the nose. The taste follows with vanilla coffee/iced vanilla latte notes on the swallow and finish. This is a very good golden stout that has good feel and depth.