Russell Brewing – Coffee Table Beer

Russell Brewing has released a variant on its Mind The Bar fundraiser, Belgian Table Beer. This version is aged on beans from Edmonton’s Roasti Coffee Co, described as:

Castillo beans, which come from a nano-lot farmed by Leonardo Triana in the San Gil region of Sanatander, Colombia. This slow-fermented coffee is lightly roasted to accentuate powerful notes of fresh strawberry and milk chocolate.

There’s a distinct mocha coffee aroma on the nose. The aroma prepares your mouth for a coffee stout, even though the appearance–light in colour, completely transparent–has your brain thinking pilsener.

For a moderately carbonated beer it has a fine, lasting foamy head and respectable mouthfeel. Crisp and light with notes of strawberries and melon, this low-alcohol (ie, table) beer doesn’t suffer a bit for the inherent reduction in body.