While drinking my coffee this morning, I was flipping through the channels and found myself watching “How It’s Made” on the Science Channel. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this product in the beer stores, or wasn’t really aware that it even existed. From what I’ve gathered, this is the approximate proportions used: Beer: ~ 70 % Wine: ~ 20 % Coffee: ~ 10 % I did a search on BA, no results. Anyone ever try it? Like it? Hate it? The short 3 minute video I saw this morning:
Of specific note, they say "port wine" in the video. Given I have never heard of this, I am not sure if port is specifically needed, but i feel the distinction is is a fairly significant one. Regardless, the concept has an air of a pre-made cocktail (RTD), even if beer is very rare in cocktail making.
I’ve had Port Wine before, it is a lot like a Cream Sherry. The country of origin is Portugal, I believe it is a fortified wine, and generally considered a dessert wine.
Ha! I wrote very poorly. That is on me. I meant I had never heard of the drink in the original post, not port, and wasn't sure if "any wine" was needed or if specifically a fortified wine like port was needed.
Port generally tends to be sweeter, and is fortified like sherry, but I wouldn't really describe it to be like sherry outside of that. It's like saying that an Imperial Stout is a lot like a Barleywine.
I'd never heard of it, but you can bet your ass I'll be looking for it now. From a little bit of research, it appears to be a little more complex than just a blend, as there's apparently some co-fermentation involved. Probably as close as I've had to this would be DFH Noble Rot (saison) and Rhinegeist Skeleton Brut Red (imperial IPA), both brewed with grapes/grape must. With port, stout, and coffee as ingredients, Vinobrew sounds like it'd be on a whole 'nother level. TL;DR: I'm in.
I think it’s going to get to the point where brewers are just going to note when a beer doesn’t have coffee in it.
So we'll have the beer geeks, the wine geeks, and the coffee geeks all simultaneously describing the experience of drinking this in painfully irrelevant amounts of details? My idea of hell.
Yeah, that makes a big difference! I'm not really interested in a blend of 70% stout and 20% pinot noir, or cabernet sauvignon. But 20% port? That's an entirely different creation. ... and I'm still not sure I'd like it.
Superficially this sounds weird and gross but based on the video it’s clearly a stout for the beer and wine barrel aged coffee stouts aren’t unheard of (and can actually be pretty damn good). So I’d try it
Though a bit intriguing, the fact that it was done 7+ years ago and no one seems to have done it since makes me think it's not very good
OTOH it seems like such a niche product wouldn't be worth the time for most brewers. They would have to collaborate with the vintner and the roaster, come up with each product for the blend and decide on the proportions of each to use, and who knows what else. It's not for everyone, and I can't imagine it would be cheap.
