Dunkin' Summer Coffee Pale Ale
Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall
- From:
- Harpoon Brewery & Beer Hall
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
Ranked #1,215 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #33,520 - Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 11.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 11
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 09, 2025
- Added:
- Mar 31, 2019
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 4
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by rickyfinn from Minnesota
4.75/5 rDev +31.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.75/5 rDev +31.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Appearance: Bright & effervescent bronze
Aroma: Fresh baked coffee cake, grapefruit, & pineapple
Mouth feel: Soft & light with some moderate carbonation
Taste: Soft, subtle roast, pineapple upside down cake, light stone fruit
Finish: Balanced with a lingering hint of sweet amber malt and coffee
Best in this genre. A heavenly marriage of positive characteristics. An excellent adjunct to a breakfast or brunch buffet. A superlative mourning ale.
Dec 11, 2019Aroma: Fresh baked coffee cake, grapefruit, & pineapple
Mouth feel: Soft & light with some moderate carbonation
Taste: Soft, subtle roast, pineapple upside down cake, light stone fruit
Finish: Balanced with a lingering hint of sweet amber malt and coffee
Best in this genre. A heavenly marriage of positive characteristics. An excellent adjunct to a breakfast or brunch buffet. A superlative mourning ale.
Reviewed by Peach63 from New York
3.53/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours amber with a 1/4 inch cream-colored head, which dissipates. Moderate lacing. Slight haze.
Aroma is strong coffee. Not much else.
Taste is coffee grounds. Hard to detect much else. Mild bitterness, mostly from coffee. A bit astringent.
Medium bodied. Light carbonation. Semi-dry finish, with coffee aftertaste.
Dunkin' coffee beer, ridiculous? Yes! But this is a decent coffee pale ale.
Dec 08, 2019Aroma is strong coffee. Not much else.
Taste is coffee grounds. Hard to detect much else. Mild bitterness, mostly from coffee. A bit astringent.
Medium bodied. Light carbonation. Semi-dry finish, with coffee aftertaste.
Dunkin' coffee beer, ridiculous? Yes! But this is a decent coffee pale ale.
Rated by FloppyEarRacing from Florida
3/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
For a summer ale, its not too bad. My only complaint would be to have more coffee on the nose.
Aug 21, 2019
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.71/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
As my Summer break begins to wind down, I am CANtinuing to clear out as much of the backlog (now primarily CANs) as possible before returning to work next week. The CANQuest (tm) has really gotten them in this Summer & especially Goses, Berliner Weisses, IPAs & Lagers, primarily Pilsners, in an attempt to be the heat. This is one more insCANce.
From the CAN: "Love Beer. Love Life."; "Limited"; "44 IBUs"; "Employee Owned".
I was starting to get a tad irritated with their interpretations of an APA so I went with an aggro C-Line Glug after the Crack! that netted me just over two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with excellent retention in the face of today's heat & humidity. Color was a solid-Amber (SRM = > 7, < 9) with NE-quality clarity. Now, we were talking! Nose was less coffee-like than I might have expected, but CANversely, it smelled much closer to an APA than the previous two. Still, when held up to the standard-bearer of SNPA, it really did not measure up. It was marginally within spec for the style, but it was not my cuppa coffee. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste left no doubt that coffee played a part in this beer, but it also allowed for a hoppy bitterness to be perceivable. It was two different kinds of bitterness that actually worked pretty well together. That said, I had to shake my head in disbelief that I was saying it, but I would have preferred that they had gone with a full-on NEIPA instead. It would have really been disappointing if I had truly been expecting an APA. Finish was semi-dry, but it just was not really an APA. YMMV.
Aug 21, 2019From the CAN: "Love Beer. Love Life."; "Limited"; "44 IBUs"; "Employee Owned".
I was starting to get a tad irritated with their interpretations of an APA so I went with an aggro C-Line Glug after the Crack! that netted me just over two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with excellent retention in the face of today's heat & humidity. Color was a solid-Amber (SRM = > 7, < 9) with NE-quality clarity. Now, we were talking! Nose was less coffee-like than I might have expected, but CANversely, it smelled much closer to an APA than the previous two. Still, when held up to the standard-bearer of SNPA, it really did not measure up. It was marginally within spec for the style, but it was not my cuppa coffee. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste left no doubt that coffee played a part in this beer, but it also allowed for a hoppy bitterness to be perceivable. It was two different kinds of bitterness that actually worked pretty well together. That said, I had to shake my head in disbelief that I was saying it, but I would have preferred that they had gone with a full-on NEIPA instead. It would have really been disappointing if I had truly been expecting an APA. Finish was semi-dry, but it just was not really an APA. YMMV.
Reviewed by HoppingMadMonk from New Jersey
3.6/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Around a medium body with a decent amount of lasting carbonation. Overall a nice crisp feel
Aroma is lightly roasted coffee, lightl6roasted malt, earthy hops
Taste was basically the same as aroma. Coffee was there but hops really dominated the taste
Jul 31, 2019Aroma is lightly roasted coffee, lightl6roasted malt, earthy hops
Taste was basically the same as aroma. Coffee was there but hops really dominated the taste
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