{"id":2254,"date":"2019-07-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/2019\/07\/10\/is-this-the-best-coffee-beer\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:44:36","slug":"is-this-the-best-coffee-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/2019\/07\/10\/is-this-the-best-coffee-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This The Best Coffee Beer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-146268\" src=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2019\/07\/pbr-hard-coffee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People are always trying to make coffee hard. Brew it this way, sift the grounds to exactly this size, pour water here but NOT here for precisely this length of time and not a second longer, otherwise it\u2019s all ruined. Turns out, it\u2019s pretty easy to make coffee hard, but to make hard coffee, well that\u2019s a whole nother thing entirely. That\u2019s where <a href=\"https:\/\/pabstblueribbon.com\">Pabst Blue Ribbon<\/a> comes in. The makers of every late-\u201800s dive bar\u2019s favorite beer has just announced Hard Coffee, an alcoholic coffee drink that is somehow not a coffee beer.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/pbr-hard-coffee\">Food &amp; Wine<\/a>, Pabst Blue Ribbon Hard Coffee\u2014I would have called it PeaBeRry or maybe just PBRry, but that\u2019s just me\u2014is a 5% ABV beverage \u201cmade using Arabica and Robusta coffee beans and rich, creamy American milk.\u201d Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/05\/us\/pabst-blue-ribbon-coffee-trnd\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, each 11-ounce can also contains 30mg of caffeine, roughly one third of that of an eight-ounce cup of coffee. The limited release malt beverage is out now, but currently only available in Pennsylvania, Maine, New Jersey, Florida, and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>But is it any good? Can we even define \u201cgood\u201d in this context? Like, we\u2019re talking about PBR here, a beer that made a comeback due primarily to its low, low price point. \u201cGood\u201d is just too much of moving target for any of use to hit. But according to Food &amp; Wine, the crowdsourced beer rating website Untapped has Hard Coffee at 4.21 out of 5 caps (caps are like stars but for beer) in its first 160 reviews, which F&amp;W rightfully describes as \u201can uncannily high rating.\u201d Individual raters described it as tasting like Yoo-hoo and \u201clike a Starbucks frappuccino bullshit,\u201d which they appear to have meant as a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>Is it any good? Most people seem to say, ironically or otherwise, that yeah it sure is.<\/p>\n<p>So put down that barrel-aged golden coffee stout, that hazy Yirgacheffe IPA, and that cascara berliner weisse. This summer\u2019s best coffee beer may not be a coffee beer at all.<\/p>\n<p><em><a class=\"addbackground\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallas_coffee\">Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0<a class=\"addbackground\" href=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/author\/zac-cadwalader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Top image via Food &amp; Wine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/is-this-the-best-coffee-beer-146267.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Is This The Best Coffee Beer?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are always trying to make coffee hard. Brew it this way, sift the grounds to exactly this size, pour water here but NOT here for precisely this length of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}