10°P Černé Pivo
Halfway Crooks Beer

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From:
Halfway Crooks Beer
 
Georgia, United States
Style:
Czech Dark Lager
ABV:
4.2%
Score:
+6 ratings needed
Avg:
4.15 | pDev: 6.02%
Ratings:
4 | reviews: 1
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 12, 2025
Added:
Mar 04, 2023
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
Designed in collaboration with Cohesion Brewing (Denver, CO) to feature base & specialty grains from Epiphany Craft Malt (Durham, NC) & 100% Czech Saaz hops. Assertive roast character and midnight black. This Černé was lagered for so long and now with flavors of caramel-macchiato coffee grounds, black tea, & cigar wraps.
Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 4.25 by bigred89 from Maryland

Jul 12, 2025
 
Rated: 4.02 by wisegreensoul from Idaho

Aug 12, 2024
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Rated by pathman from Ohio

4.5/5  rDev +8.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
08/05/24 can @ home
Aug 06, 2024
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Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut

3.83/5  rDev -7.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
No canning date (released on 1/27/23); consumed on 3/4/23

Pours a deep, nearly jet-brown body with subtle chestnut accents and topped with two and a half fingers of fluffy, off-beige foam; good head retention leaves a few chunky islands of cap, moderate, frothy collar, and steady array of dense, soapy lacing holding to the walls of the glass.

Aromas of pumpernickel rye toast are accented with a subtle milk chocolate roast as soft minerality and coffee grounds feed into distant tones of caramel macchiato lingering to hints of black bread.

Taste opens to shreds of shaved macadamia and an underflowing minerality, with light cacao proceeding into flaky roast over the mid-palate as a softening black tea tone offers a mild contrast to burnt coffee grounds on the finish.

Mouthfeel shows a light body and a rounded fluff of moderate-high carbonation, dispersing a soft bittering beneath a clean mid-palate into a drying back end with peaking crispness on the finish.

Wavering malt intensity ultimately cedes in part to tea-forward earthiness, somewhat diluting an otherwise taut roast and deftly detailed sweetness; overall, still a solid, steady take on the style.
Mar 04, 2023