Café Crisp
Neustadt Springs Brewery
- From:
- Neustadt Springs Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 02, 2025
- Added:
- Nov 02, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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We partnered with the brilliant world of Ashanti coffee to brew up a unique coffee/beer hybrid. The addition of lactose gives the beer a smooth creamy mouthfeel and Ashanti's amazing house blend provides notes of caramel and chocolate. Reminiscent of a café latte, who says it needs to be coffee or beer?
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Slightly cloudy blonde that shows ample carbonation that sadly didn't show up in the single finger of head on the pour. That said, it does stick around for a bit and did offer a little bit of lace.
Smell: Barley malt dominates the nose with sweet corn and the echos of a coffee latte in the creeping in the background. It didn't need substantial warming to achieve it's modest potency.
Taste: There is an echo of coffee that permeates the entire beer, starts with mild biscuit malt with a slight sweet corn note before it leans more into a sweeter milk chocolate before a light dust of floral hops round things out.
Mouthfeel: That echo of coffee gives the beer that just dry enough note, that makes you keep drinking. The transitioning is good but a bit concealed by the coffee. The aftertaste however has a weird swampy note that didn't make itself know while you drank the beer.
Drinkability: Light bodied, and refreshing and settles down incredibly well. I really like how the coffee isn't in your face, but it's very present.
Final Thoughts: So the can is branded like a well known Canadian chocolate bar known as Coffee Crisp. I don't know if I would have gone that route, as this doesn't quite taste like a Coffee Crisp. That said, I guess I get why as the label of said candy bar is yellow which goes with the blonde of the beer. It's good.
Nov 02, 2025Smell: Barley malt dominates the nose with sweet corn and the echos of a coffee latte in the creeping in the background. It didn't need substantial warming to achieve it's modest potency.
Taste: There is an echo of coffee that permeates the entire beer, starts with mild biscuit malt with a slight sweet corn note before it leans more into a sweeter milk chocolate before a light dust of floral hops round things out.
Mouthfeel: That echo of coffee gives the beer that just dry enough note, that makes you keep drinking. The transitioning is good but a bit concealed by the coffee. The aftertaste however has a weird swampy note that didn't make itself know while you drank the beer.
Drinkability: Light bodied, and refreshing and settles down incredibly well. I really like how the coffee isn't in your face, but it's very present.
Final Thoughts: So the can is branded like a well known Canadian chocolate bar known as Coffee Crisp. I don't know if I would have gone that route, as this doesn't quite taste like a Coffee Crisp. That said, I guess I get why as the label of said candy bar is yellow which goes with the blonde of the beer. It's good.
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