12 oz. bottle
I've been looking for a couple of beers that have been brewed with either coffee or espresso and this was one of the beers I picked up on a recent store run - hoping there's some strong coffee and bourbon flavors here.
Pours black, with a tiny bit of khaki head that quickly dissolves into nothingness. First smell is overwhelmingly of coffee (it is brewed with Haitian coffee after all). A tiny bit of bourbon and vanilla sweetness. But damn, it's like opening a canister of fresh coffee.
First sip reveals really strong coffee flavor. And roasted malts. Nice amount of bitterness (from the coffee and also from a small bit of dark chocolate in there) off of it, a tiny bit of sweetness, but not quite enough; both of these flavors linger in the aftertaste. The bourbon is also a little too tough to find. 8% ABV is well hidden. Carbonation is moderate.
The coffee completely dominates and overpowers any other flavors that might be mixed in there - at the same time it's the beer's only real redeeming quality. The problem is not that the coffee flavor was too strong, but rather that all of the other flavors, namely the bourbon for which this beer is named, lacked in strength to keep up with let alone harmonize with it.
Overall Rating: 2.5/5
I've been looking for a couple of beers that have been brewed with either coffee or espresso and this was one of the beers I picked up on a recent store run - hoping there's some strong coffee and bourbon flavors here.
Pours black, with a tiny bit of khaki head that quickly dissolves into nothingness. First smell is overwhelmingly of coffee (it is brewed with Haitian coffee after all). A tiny bit of bourbon and vanilla sweetness. But damn, it's like opening a canister of fresh coffee.
First sip reveals really strong coffee flavor. And roasted malts. Nice amount of bitterness (from the coffee and also from a small bit of dark chocolate in there) off of it, a tiny bit of sweetness, but not quite enough; both of these flavors linger in the aftertaste. The bourbon is also a little too tough to find. 8% ABV is well hidden. Carbonation is moderate.
The coffee completely dominates and overpowers any other flavors that might be mixed in there - at the same time it's the beer's only real redeeming quality. The problem is not that the coffee flavor was too strong, but rather that all of the other flavors, namely the bourbon for which this beer is named, lacked in strength to keep up with let alone harmonize with it.
Overall Rating: 2.5/5
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