Suenos De Cafe
La Doña Cervecería

Tap pour at the taproom. Served chilled in a stemmed glass.
Dark brown colored body. Beige colored head. Leaves behind stretched spots of lacing.
Aroma of toasted malts and coffee.
Taste is sweet from the roasted malts and bitter from the dark roast coffee. Floral hops in the background. Aftertaste retains coffee bitterness.
Medium mouthfeel. Clean texture with a metallic note. Very good carbonation.
Coffee forward brown ale hits the right notes.

all the beer in here is pretty basic and straight forward, it was all good, but most of it lacked the kind of innovation that gets me real excited about beer, this was probably the most inventive beer on their menu, a balanced clean brown ale spiked with locally roasted coffee. i didnt try the brown on its own, but the coffee seems so integral to the success of this that i bet it would seem like its missing now in the other one. the coffee adds a lot in the aroma, a deeper roast and bitterness than is contributed by the malts, giving it some nice complexity along with the cocoa and chesnut character of the grain. faint smoke and burnt notes to the coffee in the taste, a very dark roast indeed, with some dark chocolate notes as well. very little sweetness to the middle of this, so the coffee stands out a lot. light woodiness here too like a hickory sort of thing, almost culinary, and a smooth medium body that extends the whole thing pretty well. it could be a little more tidy on the fermentation side, but the recipe and the execution are both solid here. my favorite of the handful of beers we drank when we visited.