Furthermore Oscura, beer with 100% Fair Trade Coffee. 12 fluid ounces, brewed band bottled by Furthermore Brewing, LLC, Black River Falls, WI. "A Nicaraguan all-female growers co-op (STOP) A lusciously aromatic just coffee roast (STOP) our warm-fermented, cold-lagered cerveza oscura (HUH?)" Is this an inside joke, or am I supposed to know they wrote that as a telegraph?
Huh, indeed. A Coffee-infused Mexican lager from Wisconsin. What's up with that?
Caramel brown coloring, very transparent, slim, off-white head, small but actively dotted and lasting, for what it is.
Aroma: raw roasted coffee apparent at first sniff. The best part of waking up. Rich and earthy, and, yeah, luscious, but with little else below it.
Taste: There it is in the flavor, right up front, and all the way down. Coffee flavor pervades throughout the length of the drink, but I feel without there would be no other flavors at all. A little grainy in the mouthfeel, a modicum of texture, and earthy, indeed.
This is easy-drinking enough, for the those days when you'd love an alcoholic beverage with coffee flavor, but cold, and light bodied, and preferably beer-based. But, not a stout. I'm just guessing, but I think the base beer for this does not really have flavors to complement the coffee it's infused with (as with most Coffee Stouts). And the coffee overwhelms what flavors are there, masks and obscures them. So, I see the appeal of this, but I don't see myself returning to it very often.
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