This beer By Smog City Brewing in Torrance California is a 2012 Gold Medal Winner of the Great America Beer Festival in Denver Colorado
According to Smog City, They say this Beer
"A coffee-beer, rather than a beer with coffee. A robust porter aged on fresh locally roasted, fair trade ground coffee. Enhanced flavors of chocolate, roasted malt, and of course coffee are present. "Like a chocolate covered espresso bean."
The coffee used in this beer is from Groundworks Coffee Roasters in North Hollywood, California
Each barrel of beer is loaded with over five pounds of fresh coffee, enhancing the notes of dark chocolate, roasted malt and its native coffee character.
This beer has an appearance dark brown, nearly black body with a thick film of foamy head
The nose of this has a distinct roasted coffee like its of instant with a bit of dark fruit aspect like of prune and black current, milk chocolate, roasted malt, licorice root, and cork
The flavor of this beer has notes of Brazilian coffee, coca powder, saffron, cinnamon, coriander, cream, blood orange, soil, and oak
