Joe
Happy Valley Brewing Company

on draft in big snifter glass. coffee smell is in your face so be warned. i love coffee so excited to try and was not disappointed. nice balance and seemed closer to stout than porter. great beer

Very dark, coffee taste but not overpowering, good balance.

 

Optics are as expected. Aroma is dominated by coffee - mostly your normal dark roast variety. Flavor is good, the base beer is unexceptional but the coffee is blended in well, not too dominating but not too distant. Mostly dark / French roast flavors. Mouthfeel is a tad watery, but not distractingly so.

 

Although I usually don't focus on stout's - this is one of my favorites. THe coffee adds a great finish and it does have a great body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I enjoyed this on nitro at HVBC -served chilled in a snifter.

The color is black with no light passing through and thin tan head with a little lace in spots. The smell is excellent -so much coffee with a vanilla odor that compliments in a way that reminds me of iced coffee. The feel is smooth with some roast and a little spice from the coffee but not really bitter...I guess the vanilla gives it a smoothness combined with the nitro delivery.

The taste is excellent -it follows the aroma with an intensity of coffee in the flavor that is unrivaled in other strong porters/stouts of this abv level IMO. I really think the vanilla adds something to the malt sweetness that supports maybe even amplifies the cocoa type character in the roast character of the coffee. Overall I can't say enough good things -one of the best beers I had if not THE best at HVBC currently -definitely try this if you like coffee porter/stouts.