Siren Craft Brew Project Barista - Caffe Lungo (2021)

Project Barista - Caffe Lungo (2021)

 

Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bock - Doppelbock Series
Score
6.80
ABV: 7.4% IBU: - Ticks: 7
Doppelbocks are big, strong, hearty lagers and we’re delighted to have an excuse to make one for the first time. It’s also a pleasure to work with Phil once more, who was integral to the first ever Project Barista in a former role, now back under his own Anonymous guise. Between us we selected a coffee for this beer that would stand up to it. Mirror it. A perfect match of profile that keeps each side of coffee vs beer one-upping the other as you drink it, with the real winners being us! To do this we used a blended espresso with exquisite plum, raisin and dark chocolate notes, the signature coffee at Anonymous. Part of the joy of Doppelbocks is their reassuring sweetness, but with relatively high alcohol it’s important that they don’t become cloying. Coffee plays into our hands here, with its inherent bitterness bringing balance. Caffè Lungo has spent a long time conditioning cold, so we followed that theme by spinning the coffee at just 1°C. Working this way gives us a very accurate idea of how the coffee will present after packaging, which is not always the easiest to judge. This beer is full bodied, packed with plenty of rich dark fruit notes and is remarkably drinkable. Meanwhile the clean, direct espresso hit means it truly is one for the coffee lovers.

Malts: Munich Light, Munich Dark, Lager, Simpsons DRC, Brown Malt, Extra Dark Crystal
Hops: Perle, Saaz, Saphir, Hersbrucker, Tettenanger

Coffee: Anonymous Coffee (Reading)
Origin: 60% Brazil / 40% El Salvador
 

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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can from the brewery. Poured a clear dark amber colour with a short-lived, fizzy tan head. The aroma is big coffee. The flavour is moderate bitter, with a crisp, malt, dry coffee, liqourice bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Drinkable, but a rather simple beer to which a load of coffee was added.

Tried from Can at Siren Craft Brewery on 08 May 2022 at 21:30


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can from Gedeelde Vreugde. Hazy dark brown, stable, foamy, tan head. Aroma of mocha, coffee roast, dried leaves, damp earth, walnut shell, hard caramel, raisin, dried banana. Taste has sweetish apple, pear & plum in a caramelly, nutty, brown-bready malt body with earthy coffee notes underneath. Herbal hoppy finish, bit peppery, quite nutty, more mocha and coffee roast, soft alcohol warmth (coffee liqueur). Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. It does what you'd expect from a Bock and the coffee is a nice extra.

Tried on 13 Feb 2022 at 14:58


6

Magus, kohvine, oane, linnased, alks. Rohkem nagu white stout vms. Okish.

Tried from Can on 23 Dec 2021 at 20:45


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can bought at Brewdog Shoreditch. Shared with Finn. Fawn-coloured head, brown-reddish body, misty, clingy lacing. Prominent aroma of coffee, hints of caramel-fruit. Mixed taste of coffee and dried fruits, mid-sweet. Slightly roasted bitter coffee endnotes. Just alright. (Hotel Room, London 15.11.2021).

Tried from Can on 08 Dec 2021 at 10:20


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

26/XI/21 - 44cl can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home, BB: 14/IX/22, canned: 14/IX/21, G2075, C:10:37 (2021-1508) Thanks to ElManana for sharing the can!

Clear deep amber to chestnut red brown beer, big creamy stable beige brown head, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots and lots of coffee, very malty, grains, alcohol, yeasty, dried fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very bitter, earthy, malty, roasted, lots of coffee, some alcohol. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, lots and lots of coffee, earthy, some caramel, bitter, tobacco, more caramel.

Tried from Can from Bierhalle Deconinck on 26 Nov 2021 at 22:00


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Delt med Rune på rom 319 Travelodge Bethnal Green. Mørk amber. Lysebrunt skum. Lett kaffearoma. Smaken også kaffe. Søt. Tørr, lett bitter avslutning.

Tried on 15 Nov 2021 at 18:18


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

440ml can. Clear deep dark ruby/brown, beige head. Aroma of coffee, dark malts, toffee. Taste of dark malts, toffee, coffee, dark fruit, hint of chocolate. Medium bodied.

Tried from Can on 16 Oct 2021 at 20:00