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We've written about our friends at the multiiple award winning Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio. They simply make tons of great, tasty, usually fairly high octane brews. I was recently given a bottle of their Headbean, brewed in conjunction with our other friends at the wonderful Akron roaster, Pearl Coffee Company, the blenders of our own personal Casa del Oro Estates, a coffee they made up for us when, upon returning from a month in Europe, we desired that sense of strength and richness while still needing to drink a pot a day.
This project was to honor the folks at Pearl for their 100th anniversary!!
Now whenever we see coffee involved in a brew, it always seems to be in a stout or a porter. This one is an Imperial Cafe Pilsner (at 7%ABV).
Who doesn’t like a good pilsner from time to time, but the idea of a coffee infused one had us cautiously eyeing this.
Thinking coffee flavored dead weight.

Drinking it, however, we can only say HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, as this is a DELICIOUS beverage!!! True to proper brewing of this sort, rather than being hit by (as we do with so many bourbon involved offerings) a nose filled with beer on one side and coffee on the other, it was just a sweet smelling beer, period. The flavor, cold from the fridge was clean, sweet, crisp, as we come to expect from a good pilsner, and rich. As it moved towards room temperature, it just got more and more flavorful. Would another's palate catch a lot of coffee to ID? Maybe.
But to us it's a case of skillfully taking a lovely coffee bean and blending it into a super delicious beer, period.
Congrats to both! We want more!