Café Con Leche
J. Wakefield Brewing

The color of black coffee with a disappointing light brown head. Aroma of coffee & roasted malt. Nice flavor: coffee with cream, lots of roasted malt & some alcohol flavor. I didn’t detect the vanilla. The lactose provided a mild sweetness & it was also slightly salty. Creamy smooth but whatever carbonation was there was exhausting producing a very meek head. Even it’s 8% was not enough to relieve the tongue of its absolute boredom. This beer is flat! If you like old coffee you might Cafe Con Leche

 

 

Lighter black body with a brown cap that slowly fades away. Smell and taste are clones: a true marriage of the coffee and cream, that if I closed my eyes I would think it is a cold brew coffee with cream, semi-sweet chocolate, hints of creme brulee, and espresso round out with a roasted malt base. Feel is lush with darkness and creamy with appropriate brightening sweetness. Decent viscosity for a medium bodied stout, very smooth. Blown away with how technically thought out and executed everything aspect of this beer was

Pours very dark, nearly impervious to light. Minimal mocha head that lingers. Really nice coffee aroma mixes with lactose / vanilla. Like a coffee with cream. Really nice, smooth coffee flavor, creamy, light chocolate flavor. Carbonation adds to a creamy texture. Overall, very good, on par with Treehouse double shot and Kane’s beers of this style.

3/11/21
17!oz can dated
4.25 rating

 

Brew #10 from the Hop Culture Juicy Brews box, a 16oz can poured into a snifter.

A: Dark brown pour sits opaque black in the glass with a finger of mocha-colored & tightly-bubbled head.

S: Smooth coffee-house aromas of roasted espresso, vanilla beans, and the impression of creamy milk sweetness.

T: Cold-pressed coffee, vanilla cream, moderate roasted malt profile, impressions of mocha and milk chocolate. Rich and delicate at the same time.

MF: Velvety smooth and very creamy; medium-to-full bodied.

O: A delicious coffee milk stout with welcome flavors of lactose and vanilla. Very nicely done. Comes off more like an 8% milk stout, rather than a big roasty Imperial Stout, which is fine by me.

Pours a deep dark brown, nearly black with a tan head that recedes to a ring around the edge of the glass. Aroma is an interesting combo of the chocolately roasty notes, hint of vanilla, and the coffee throws a hint of blueberry to me. Flavor is more straight ahead coffee stout, coffee, chocolate, vanilla sweetness, a bit of sticky caramel. Feel is a bit thin for me, sweet from the lactose but I wish it was a bit silkier.

Nice beer, more subtle and restrained than I remember J Wakefield stouts being.

 

Dull black with a short but creamy tan head settling out to a thin curled ring leaving an unusual pattern of very thin columns of bubbles on the glass.

Dichotomously bittersweet, it's got a roasty Charbucks quality that's contrasted by enjoyably sweet notes of mocha and affogato. It's a little milk chocolatey, while also featuring notes of tobacco and a bit of a sassafras or cola tang.

The creamy medium-light body thickens with its slow to emerge yet delicate carbonation before coming to a softly dry finish exhaling a touch of vanilla that has a bit of a sting.

Overall, by J. Wakefield standards, this is a classic stout with relatively mild accents of coffee and sweetness.