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A Podcast & A Beer – A History of Coffee

Might be more iced coffee time than hot but either way I suggest you check out A History of Coffee podcast.

Hosted by documentary maker James Harper and professional historian Jonathan Morris cover the history of coffee, sustainability, the rise of craft coffee and the future of coffee.

It is a six episode series with nearly as many bonus episodes and the hosts strike a good balance of positive and negative, light and dark.

This is a bit of a no brainer. Look to the stout section of your beer shop cooler and search out their coffee beers. But to throw a twist, look for a golden coffee stout. Or to get even twistier, look for one of the Oregon coffee IPA’s like Java the Hop from Fort George or Cold Brew IPA from Rogue Ales.

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Featured Review – Cold Brew IPA from Rogue

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From my viewpoint Coffee IPA’s have similar issues to black IPA’s. The main one being that it can be devilishly hard to balance the two competing forces of coffee and hops. Rogue Ales Cold Brew IPA comes close though. The coffee from Stumptown dominates in both aroma and flavor with a kind of green, unroasted bean touch at first. Then a flowering of iced coffee flavors swirl into view. There is a tiny touch of citrus bitterness from the hops at the end.

Now if this was labeled as a coffee pale or coffee XPA or just a cold brew ale, I would be more generous in my praise. It is a tasty brew and I do enjoy the aroma a lot but it doesn’t quite reach the IPA minimum bar.