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Furthermore Oscura 3.52 103

Furthermore Oscura

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1033.56/5.03.52/5.05.3%100Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Our coffee beer is more "iced coffee" than "double-mocha-mud", more "summer quencher" than "winter warmer". I start with a brown Mexican lager to compliment the coffee of choice, "Nicaragua" (beans from the La Fem Grower’s Co-operative, roasted by Just Coffee of Madison.) I include flaked maize both for added creaminess and to appease the sun gods. Extra-warm fermentation lets the yeast create more interesting flavors (the California-common effect, or "Vapor Beer", if you speak Beer-Spanglish.) Hop bitterness is increased to offset the sweet flavor of un-brewed coffee. Whole beans are soaked in the beer during cold maturation - the alcohol extracts and retains aromatics that would otherwise be lost to hot water. You want numbers? Well, numbers you shall have: 15 degrees Plato; 37 IBU’s; 5.3% ABV.
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 JHunter (247), British Columbia, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/515/20

Oct 11, 2009  
pours a clear amber colour with a nice off white head. strong dark coffee aroma and a malty dark roasted coffee taste.

 jzzbassman (850), New Albany, Mississippi, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Dec 13, 2009  
Strong sweet tea appearance with light foam. Coffee is prominent in the aroma, with an earthy mushroom like background. Lively carbonation, with coffee once again being prominent in the flavor, with some vanilla as well.


allendodd (60), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/513/20
Nov 19, 2009  
Well, this one pours a dark coffee brown. The nose is coffee. The first taste is coffee with a trace of sweetness, and then some more coffee. Palate is light with some strong carbonation, but then, this is the first time I have had carbonated coffee. The finish is dry with the hint of some possibly Belgian yeasty quality I see notw that the base is a lager- maybe just a slight fruit flavor from the coffee and hops, but definitely coffee. And the finish is coffee. I don’t hate this as much as my snotty review might suggest. I think It would be a very nice cool drink at the end of a hot summer day. I’d buy it again.


 vtafro (477), , New Jersey, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/105/58/104/513/20
Nov 18, 2009  
Draft @ Hulmeville Inn. This steam beer on a sniff had no showing of its coffee flavor but malts are present in both. Very different but enjoyable flavor beer.


 kramer (2505), Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Nov 17, 2009  
12 oz bottle. Pours a clear amber to copper body with a one finger fizzy off-white head that faded pretty quickly. Very light-roast coffee with a good bit of grainy and toasted malt on the nose. Smells pretty weird really. Same kind of flavor, the coffee really just doesn’t work for me with dry grainy malt. It’s kinda like an iced coffee after all of the ice melts. Mouthfeel is lighter bodied with a watery texture and moderate fizzy carbonation. Huh, a coffee beer that I really just don’t care for. That’s a first!


 mabel (2626), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Nov 15, 2009  
[2580-20091113] 12floz bottle. Chocolate leaf malt and toasted fungus aroma. Clear, golden amber body with a quick foamy light tan head. Generic grainy bread malt flavour. Medium body. Fairly interesting, solid.
(w/ Derek, DougShoemaker, jerc)


rabba9 (73), Chaska, Minnesota, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/58/104/514/20
Nov 14, 2009  
Bottle pours light brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is coffee and sweet malt. Taste is coffee with a mild bitterness. Nice inclusion of coffee in a lager beer.


 jerc (3954), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Nov 14, 2009  
2009-11-13. Red to light brown body, small tan head. 3+ Dar aroma, grainy, dry cold coffee and coffee ground notes. Touch odd. 6+ Flavour is similar, dry coffee grounds, dry roast, mild malt. Average palate. Possibly a touch old, or maybe its just me? Meh, okay but not to my tastes. Bottle c/o brigadier.


 bhensonb (4365), Woodland, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/515/20
Nov 4, 2009  
Bottle from allendodd. Thanks for this and all the others! Pours a ruddy copper with a three-finger beige head. It laced a bit. Aroma is coffee. Medium body with frothy carbonation. Flavor is mostly coffee. There’s some dark malt underneath. Lager? Ok. But it can stand up against a lot of porters and stouts. Damn tasty ale, er lager!!!



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