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Put Your Vices Together for Coffee-beer

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Feast your eyes on the newest Swiss invention: Coffee-beer, a "fermented coffee beverage" that has been patented in every major market around the world by Nestac (part of the Nestle empire). The beverage is basically a super-caffeinated liquid that pours like a beer but smells like coffee. No alcohol included. To make it, coffee beans are roasted and the chemicals that contain the natural aroma are collected in a cryogenic condenser and then converted to coffee oil. The rest of the roast are ground into powder, mixed with yeast and sugar and fermented for 4 hours at 22 degrees Celsius. This way, the yeast still metabolises but doesn't convert to alcohol. They then mix the oil in with the liquid and nitrogen and that is injected to make foam.

Invention: Coffee beer

5:49 PM on Wed Nov 2 2005
By tgrumet
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  • I love coffee but hate beer... i´ll try it if i can anyway, who knows, we may get a new best friend besides red wine. About the pic, as a natural spanish speaker, i affraid they spelled wrong the word "Cerveseria", the rigth way is "Cerveceria". But i guess thatt the kind of peole who look for a "Cerveza" dont care about spelling.

  • Wasn't this the subject of an episode of Drew Carey several years ago? Sounds like it might be a pretty interesting experience, in any case. In New York I occasionally bought this one coffee soda which I'd imagine this would be very similar to.

  • Hum... Right now the thing is this picture has nothing to do with the story. Would be nice to clear that up... This pic looks a lot like a joint in Barcelona's Plaza Catalunya. It could be part of a chain and be anywhere else in spain, but ive never seen another one of these weird beer/coffee places exept in that square.

  • Erzengel -- some googling suggests to me that that's Catalán, which would make sense with Barcelona. But I don't know what I'm taking about. :)

  • Catalan... jezz, i always forget those guys. Probably you are rigth, thanks for the data...

  • Ok This is just bad taste. I mean come on. You draw me in by tempting me to figure out which way I can pass out first. From the coffee or the beer. But then you break it to me that theres no alcohol... sheesh i need a double espresso with a shot of vodka.

  • On the Drew Carey show it was called "Buzz Beer." Funny that it has finally been realized.

  • This sounds like one of those things that'll take a little getting used to. You know, like coffee. Or beer. At first, people will hate it. They'll say "I'm never drinking that crap again!". Of course, they'll come crawling back. It's like the old saying goes: "If you don't like beer, you're not trying hard enough." Now who's up for a morning keg-stand?

  • Old news. I just had an Espresso-infused beer at TriBeCa's iBar, though I can't remember what it's called. (Tell you what: I'll go, drink more, and report back. If I remember the next day.) Verdict: absolutely delicious. And yes, caffeine and alcohol both. I think it's something that's been done for some time. Of course, this stuff sounds downright awful. Be afraid. Sounds like it's neither good coffee nor good beer (as opposed to that concoction I'd had previously, which was both). And it comes from an evil global food conglomerate to boot, so you have that Taste of Evil thing, as well.

  • So what again is the point if there's no booze in it? I'll take a double Irish coffee, hold the coffee.

  • Just to clarify. That's Barcelona and that's indeed written in Catalan. And hypercollider is right, that's actually a "tapas" bar and has nothing to do with the new Nestlé beverage. And yeah, "these guys" here are usually forgotten, but no need to worry, we're used to it.

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