The Beancounter Coffee Porter
Co-Conspirators Brewing Company
- From:
- Co-Conspirators Brewing Company
- Australia
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 3.55%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 01, 2018
- Added:
- Aug 15, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
3.25/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.25/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Next up in my unending saga of beer reviews [Doc’s liver: “Please make it stop”] quiet liver! *punches liver* [Oww, my various-internal-organs-including-my-liver]: CoConspirators The Beancounter Coffee Porter! I’ve had a Coffee Porter or 2 and one thing I know about Coffee Porters is that they taste like coffee. Probably because they’re made with coffee. Seems pretty obvious, not sure why I said that. So I’ve got another brew coming up that is a Coffee Milk Stout, bit of a Latte Stout, and it’ll be interesting to see which comes out on top. If I were a betting man I would put all my chips on the Stout which has a higher ABV (7% versus 5%) however stronger doesn’t always translate to better (except for most of the time).
Poured from a 355ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Pours a pretty black cola colour with a decent 2 centimetre tan-coloured cappuccino foam head that leaves patchwork lace inside the glass as it goes down. Better than average, though the head fizzled out rather quick. 7/10.
S: Coffee isn’t very upfront and more of a lingering background note with an earthy/roasty front end and a powered chocolate centre. There’s 2 schools of thought with coffee beers: 1) Those who feel that coffee should be front/centre/all over the palate, and 2) Those who feel that as long as the balance is good and the coffee flavour is there then it’s alright-Vegemite. I’m more in the latter camp. Still it’s not a BIG beer, and it probably was never going to be at 5%, but I’m missing some pop, some zing, some joie de vie with this aroma right here. 7/10.
T: Confirmed: This is a lacklustre brew from CoConspirators, who launched out of the gate with The Matriarch NEIPA. Beancounter is by far their blandest beer I’ve had so far, and it’s not just ABV related – I’ve had many brews that were more flavoursome at 5% than this. Flavour profile begins dusty/earthy with a roasted coffee mid-palate that is far too restrained for a coffee beer (even for a #2 coffee beer school of thought guy like me) then a mild powdered chocolate centre, finishing long and dry. This brew is about a 4/10 for flavour intensity when it needs to be higher. Also where are sweet/bitter notes? It’s too dry for its own good. 6/10.
M: Decent body though – medium with a light but dense carbonation. 8/10.
D: CoConspirators swings and misses with this bland Coffee Porter. What could they have changed? The coffee itself is, I suspect, one of the issues, it and the lack of sugar content, at least those are 2 ideas that would fix this. 6/10.
Food match: Oysters or earthy mushroom dishes would work well with this.
Aug 15, 2018Poured from a 355ml can into a nonic pint.
A: Pours a pretty black cola colour with a decent 2 centimetre tan-coloured cappuccino foam head that leaves patchwork lace inside the glass as it goes down. Better than average, though the head fizzled out rather quick. 7/10.
S: Coffee isn’t very upfront and more of a lingering background note with an earthy/roasty front end and a powered chocolate centre. There’s 2 schools of thought with coffee beers: 1) Those who feel that coffee should be front/centre/all over the palate, and 2) Those who feel that as long as the balance is good and the coffee flavour is there then it’s alright-Vegemite. I’m more in the latter camp. Still it’s not a BIG beer, and it probably was never going to be at 5%, but I’m missing some pop, some zing, some joie de vie with this aroma right here. 7/10.
T: Confirmed: This is a lacklustre brew from CoConspirators, who launched out of the gate with The Matriarch NEIPA. Beancounter is by far their blandest beer I’ve had so far, and it’s not just ABV related – I’ve had many brews that were more flavoursome at 5% than this. Flavour profile begins dusty/earthy with a roasted coffee mid-palate that is far too restrained for a coffee beer (even for a #2 coffee beer school of thought guy like me) then a mild powdered chocolate centre, finishing long and dry. This brew is about a 4/10 for flavour intensity when it needs to be higher. Also where are sweet/bitter notes? It’s too dry for its own good. 6/10.
M: Decent body though – medium with a light but dense carbonation. 8/10.
D: CoConspirators swings and misses with this bland Coffee Porter. What could they have changed? The coffee itself is, I suspect, one of the issues, it and the lack of sugar content, at least those are 2 ideas that would fix this. 6/10.
Food match: Oysters or earthy mushroom dishes would work well with this.
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