Coffee With A Blonde
Drafting Table Brewing Company

 

16 ounce prowler into pint glass, filled on 8/30/2019. Pours crystal clear deep golden amber color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big nutty medium roast coffee, honey, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of vanilla, chocolate, cocoa, pear, red apple, herbal, wood, grass, peppercorn, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of coffee, pale malts, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with big strength. Taste of big nutty medium roast coffee, honey, white bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of vanilla, chocolate, cocoa, pear, red apple, herbal, wood, grass, peppercorn, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, woody, grassy, peppery, roasted coffee bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of nutty medium roast coffee, honey, white bread dough, toasted biscuit, vanilla, chocolate, cocoa, pear, red apple, herbal, wood, grass, peppercorn, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of coffee, pale malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium-plus carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, and moderately creamy/bready/grainy/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 6%. Overall this is an excellent coffee blonde ale. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of coffee, pale malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/clean/refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Awesome balance of clean pale malts, fruity/nutty coffee complexity, and earthy hops. Mild residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive spot on style example. Not as yeasty as I expected though.