AleWerks Coffeehouse Stout
Ale brewed with fresh roasted Guatemala Antigua coffee.
3.7
211 reviews
Williamsburg, United States
Community reviews
from a 2015 bottle. Pours a dark brown, with a decent tan head. Big smells of coffee, peanuts, bourbon, and some sweet notes, maybe vanilla. The taste is spot on for such a newly bottled beer. Great blend of coffee and bourbon. Hard to tell it has such a high ABV by the way this one goes down. Nice and creamy to the pallet, this is one of the best aged coffee beers of the year!
Aroma: coffee, roasty, chocolate
Appearance: black, brown head
Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, coffee
Palate: medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, long finish,
Delicious
on tap at the brewery; black color with very little head; coffee and roasted malt aroma; nice, dry coffee flavor with dark, roasted malts and mild bitter chocolate notes; nice dry finish
Bottle - Pours very dark with a small head. Aromas of espresso, roasted malts, and chocolate. Nice mouth feel with lots of coffee and slightly bitter chocolate finish that balances the sweetness.
BOD 1/16/15. Pours pitch black. Below average head volume, lacing and retention.
Rich nose of coffee, chocolate and roast over a malt background of biscuit and caramel.
Medium body with a smooth texture and a bit of oily slickness. Superb carbonation with a bit of effervescence in the middle and a nice prickly burst in the finish.
The outstanding flavor profile is intense, complex and balanced. It begins with a blend of coffee and chocolate. As the middle approaches, a balancing sweetness arrives that is biscuit and caramel. The middle brings a light bitterness with a bit of roast. The prickly finish is a slow fade of the aforementioned flavors and demonstrates the malt aspects. This one has a smooth flavor profile and avoids the harshness of some stouts.
12 ounce bottle
A Christmas gift, this release shows flashes of excellence amidst an overall background that puts it just above the rest of the pack. I’d probably revisit this on draft but it does have some room for improvement.
Aroma / Appearance - An oily black base simmers under a thin tier of beige head. Strong black coffee with hints of hazel linger like the last remnants of a warm fireplace hearth two days later.
Flavor / Palate - Chocolate, hazel, and black coffee tease the palate. A full bodied robust mouthfeel lasts for a few minutes before it unfolds into a dense stout finish. The overall experience feels a little cloying by the end. Ultimately this brings it back down into the rest of the pack rather than setting it apart.
Bottle at home thanks to Brad! Pours black, fast dissipating light brown head. Aroma is light vanilla, coffee, chocolate, faint berry. Smells nice. Taste is milk chocolate, sweet coffee and vanilla, lightly fruity. Rich mouthfeel, low carbonation. Solid beer.
Poured from a bottle. Dark brown color, medium frothy tan head. Caramel, roasted coffee with a slight acrid aroma. Medium body with a watery pallet, light roasted malt flavor and a medium finish.
Great beer. Poured from a bottle. Rich dark brown color, okay head. Thick mocha aroma, stronger coffee taste, very smooth going down. Better than many more expensive stouts I’ve had.
Nice heavy stout with just the reight amount of coffee to make it enjoyable but ot overpowering. Best offering from these guys who are usually a miss for me.
Bottled. Dark pour. Chocolate and coffee aroma. A bit sweet. OK stout nothing special
12 oz. bottle. With a date of 12/23/2013. Dark blacker color thin head. Aroma is bitter coffee bean with mild roasted grains. Flavor is slightly bitter coffee grounds, light chocolate and a light charred malt/ bean character. The body is rather nice for the O. G. The fact that is is still drinkable after all this time is really astounding. Would love to sample this fresh
From notes. 12 oz bottle shared 3 ways. Dated 12/23/13. Pours coca cola brown with a beige head. Aroma is chocolate, spent coffee grinds. Flavor is dark chocolate, medium dark coffee. There is a slight sourness to the coffee flavor, probably due to age. Still, quite good.
Bottle extra’d courtesy of emacgee. Pours a deep murky brown body with thin tan lacing. Aroma is super earthy roast, coffee, dirt and light sugar. Mouthfeel is medium with lots of roast up front, a bit too much of the roast to be honest. Some light bitter chocolate follows through later on the palate, but this seems to be a one-note "roast" dominated stout.
Tap @ Fireworks Leesburg - pours black with a tan head, a little bit of lacing on the glass. Aroma is sweet coffee, breakfast cereal, and malt drink. Taste is sweet with not a lot of body. Nice, though a bit thin for a stout.
Bottled on 11/07/2014. 12 oz into a tulip. Pours a standard black with a finger of mocha foam. Nose is fresh coffee, roast, ash, and faint cocoa. Taste is very roasty and ashy with some bitter coffee and like others have noted, an out of place fruit sweetness. The roast is a bit too prominent. Decent enough coffee stout but the smoke and mystery sweetness was a bit off putting.
12 ounce bottle from Nate as part of a Christmas sampler. Very black with a small tan head. Coffee and ash in the nose. Both of those are tasted. I also taste lactic and cocoa and it took a while to decipher that. That aspect just doesn’t work here. Some bitter earth along with the ash makes it gently smoky. Quite late a bit of citrus emerged and added a nice offset. This improved with warming.
Pours black with a small tan head. Charred malt, smoke, coffee, and a sweetness that I can’t place. Roasted malt, light coffee, and bit of a sour taste. Good beer
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a small creamy brown head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was coffee, chocolate syrup, port wine and marshmallows. The flavor was coffee, vanilla, marshmallow, cocoa and a hint of red wine. Medium length finish. Medium body but silky and creamy. Solid.
Very nice and clean dark black pour with one to two fingers of cocoa tan head. Very nice aroma, rich dark malts with dark fruit, brown sugar, coffee, and some earthy roasty malt notes. Flavor isn’t dominated by coffee (critical…) and features a nice sweet roast, chocolate, and burnt sugar. Very nice
a summer stout with a watery body and good coffee flavor. nice aroma and little bit of grit. a little sweet with nice foamy head. not very beer like but interesting enough.
I’m a sucker for coffee stouts. nothing that blew me away, but the coffee was up front and in your face, though not so much you couldn’t taste the stout. a bit on the light side, but with a wonderful aroma and a nice lingering bittersweet coffee finish."
Bottle: Super deep brown pour appearing completely inky black in the glass; mocha-foamy head settles in just moments to a timid collar. Aroma of rich coffee, moderate cream, a bit of sweet cacao, & a touch of dark prunes. Taste is coffee heavy; lightly acrid but not overly roasty. More sweet than bitter, light creamy undertone with a mid-palate containing a good amount of chocolate covered blueberry & dates. A little more coffee rounds out the finish with hints of nutty chocolate. A touch thin, but a nice coffee stout overall.
Bottle. Pours motor oil black with a short brown head. Big roasted coffee aroma with chocolate and some vanilla notes. Flavor of rich roasted coffee, vanilla, a bit of caramel and had a roasty dry bitter finish.
Light smell of coffee. Some roast, texture a little on watery side. Mind you this is after going through the menu at Blue Jacket. Finishes with light sweetness. Some club I wandered into out of vague interest on u street.
Sweet with strong roasty coffee flavors, sweet roasted barley, and a slight metally tartness.
Aromas of fresh roasted coffee beans, subtle chocolate. Black with a mostly lasting light tan head. Coffee flavors dominate, some nutty characteristics, light caramel, light chocolate. Medium bodied, very refreshing.
Bottle from Grape@Gourmet. Pours dark black with a small tan head that dissipates quickly with good lacing. Aroma is fairly standard roasty espresso, dark chocolate, touch of ashtray. Flavor follows, medium initial sweetness overtaken by assertive coffee bitterness. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. Pretty decent beer!
Bottle. Overall a non thrilling stout that was a little thin and over carbonated. Some coffee but not as much as I expected. Just okay
Poured a taster at the local shop. Pours a dark brown, tan head. Aroma is typical stout, but there’s a real aroma of fine coffee in here. Taste is nice and you can really taste the high quality coffee in here, but it’s not overpowering or too bitter. Very nice.