Mild coffee-infused Irish blonde with ‘creamy nitro feel’ and fizzy lemon twist gains acrid hop astringency enabling oily day-old coffee snag to disrupt initial light roasted java influence.

In the can, dark roast coffee consumes front end of mocha-derived Belgian blonde. Its delicate pilsner-malted yellow fruit spicing maintains a fungi-cellared Belgian blonde influence, bringing lemon rind bittering (and mild limey pucker) to black coffee stead as espresso crema, dark chocolate and cafe latte remnants add to seductive java joust.

On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, sharp dark-roast coffee bean scrum slams lemon peel rim as dark cocoa, tobacco chaw and charred hop bittering reinforce heavy mocha influence. Mild astringency seeps thru lightly acidic coffee tartness.