Breakfast beers

Today sees the start of a very beery weekend at the Beer Blogger's Conference in Edinburgh and after a pre-conference pub crawl last night I need a pick me up - time for a coffee beer! I'm a big fan of coffee in beer as I'm sure you're all aware by now, given my pastposts!Post title a nod to Tyson who has somehow managed to write 1000 posts on his blog, good work sir!

Tap East's attempt up first. Rich fruity coffee with dry smokiness underneath. Quite fruity to start, with a long coffee finish. Light in body and carbonation, deep chestnut. Pretty enjoyable. I've been fairly impressed by Tap East, time for a visit I'm thinking.

Thornbridge's collaboration with Mountain Goat punningly called Thorny Goat starts off well with rich almost meaty coffee and cocoa on the nose a pillowy tan head. In the mouth the carbonation is light and body fairly heavy with lots of residual sweetness, a touch of cardboard and ashen coffee in finish. Drinkable for the strength but not the best mocha beer I’ve had and at the bottom end of what Thornbridge can do Simon seems to have enjoyed it.