Blackbeard's Breakfast
Heavy Seas Beer

Blackbeard's BreakfastBlackbeard's Breakfast
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From:
Heavy Seas Beer
 
Maryland, United States
Style:
Imperial Porter
Ranked #84
ABV:
10%
Score:
92
Ranked #5,104
Avg:
4.13 | pDev: 7.51%
Reviews:
108
Ratings:
443
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 18, 2024
Added:
Jan 06, 2015
Wants:
  43
Gots:
  94
A barrel-aged Imperial Coffee Porter.

Blackbeard's Breakfast is a robust porter with a new world twist. Aged in bourbon barrels and brewed with local Chesapeake Bay Roasting Company's Dark Sumatra coffee, this porter is flavorful and complex. Featuring unique English malts, this brew will have strong notes of caramel and a slight nut character. Paired with bourbon notes and the sumptuous Sumatran Coffee, Blackbeard's Breakfast will please coffee and beer connoisseurs alike. The limited draft only version is finished with house made caramel and salt to create an even more complex and tantalizing flavor.
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Ratings by ksimons:
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Reviewed by ksimons from Illinois

4.04/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A-very dark brown, almost black, with a fingers worth of dark tan head that leaves a cover of lace around the top

S-lots of coffee and roasted malt in the smell with chocolate and vanilla

T-bourbon comes out more in the taste than in the smell. Dark coffee, lightly roasted malt, chocolate, and vanilla

T-medium body, a little on the thin side, light to medium carbonation, very smooth

Overall while the body is a bit on the thinner side, the bourbon comes out well in the taste and has a great coffee aroma
Jun 13, 2015
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by milkshakebeersucks from Maryland

4.16/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Just as dark as a good porter should be. The tan head is small and disappears rather quickly without leaving much lacing. Coffee and caramel pop up immediately in the aroma. Rather than strong bourbon notes, the smokiness takes on a cigar-like attribute. A fleeting hint of dark fruit sneaks in on the taste buds before the more familiar coffee flavor hogs the spotlight. Lingering sweetness remains a constant. Smooth, softly carbonated, full bodied mouthfeel. Overall, a really good porter that packs a punch.
Feb 18, 2024
 
Rated: 3.93 by buzzedup from Pennsylvania

Mar 11, 2023
 
Rated: 4.5 by RockyM72 from Florida

Feb 26, 2023
 
Rated: 3.84 by RozzieBoy from Rhode Island

Feb 12, 2023
 
Rated: 4.53 by Ernald_Elbertson from Delaware

Sep 09, 2022
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Reviewed by Franziskaner from Missouri

3.95/5  rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Black in color with no light penetration. There’s a fingernail of brown around the rim and there’s otherwise a thin wisp over a third of the top. The aroma is of bourbon. I suspect the coffee might have dissipated as I bought this about 6 months prior to cracking it. I’m getting some dark coffee and smoke aroma as it warms. I’m tasting bourbon, coffee, and dark malt. The mouth is dry and a bit warm with alcohol.
Aug 07, 2022
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Reviewed by 1BrewBacca from Georgia

4.06/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Looks are no different than a stout. Short brown head that quickly vanished. Molasses film lace on the glass.
Smell and Taste: Strong coffee notes with some bourbon on the nose. For a 10% ABV it doesn't seem very boozy. Quite sweet. Good for a desert beverage.
Feel: Oily, syrupy.
Overall: It's a good beer but I can't rate it a Great beer.
Aug 02, 2022
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Reviewed by zeff80 from Missouri

4/5  rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12oz bottle. Poured out an opaque, jet-black color with a small, light brown head of foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of bourbon, oak, vanilla, coffee and chocolate. It tasted boozy with bourbon, vanilla, oak and roasted coffee.
Jun 04, 2022
 
Rated: 4.48 by Donbeerlvr from Pennsylvania

May 24, 2022
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Reviewed by Bluerabbitbell from Pennsylvania

4.15/5  rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
3/24/22 From six pack i bought for DW's 50th!

Happy birthday to me! Everything about this beer is complex, it's just so good. Incredibly boozy bourbon aromas waft up the nose. The feel is velvet smooth. The taste is bourbon, coconut, coffee, and bitter finish. One is enough, but there's more in the fridge!
Mar 24, 2022
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Rated by Kiiz

4.58/5  rDev +10.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
My go to higher abv Porter, if I can find it in season that is. The love child between a good BA stout and a roasty Porter can’t go wrong.
Mar 19, 2022
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Reviewed by Dodo2step from Pennsylvania

3.85/5  rDev -6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A- motor oil black with a brown foamy head. straight lacing on the pint and stays around a few minutes.

S- wood and coffee but faint

F- bourbon wood comes through strong.bitter dark chocolate

M- thick bodied and creamy. tough to get through initially but packs a wallop. tasty as you keep going

O- it gets better as you get through the beer.
Mar 13, 2022
 
Rated: 4 by BLPasch from Michigan

Feb 23, 2022
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Reviewed by pulse from Ohio

3.96/5  rDev -4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Continuing to clean out the refrigerator... 12 oz bottle poured into a big tulip.

Look - Quite dark with a khaki head. It's small and fades. Bubbly. Not much lacing, but some bubbles linger on the glass.

Smell - The coffee is there, followed by that woody, malty mix of a barrel. There is a sweetness from the bourbon and malt.

Taste - Plenty of coffee and dark chocolate. There is a bitterness from that pair, but the bourbon is subtle, especially as the beer warms. The coffee can fall away, too, if you let it. It certainly has a porter nuttiness underneath that. Plenty of roasty malts. This isn't the draft version, so no caramel or salt. It's pretty straightforward, I think, but not unpleasant.

Feel - It's thinner than expected but still has a tendency to linger as creamy and roasted. Medium body, smooth. Decent carbonation.

I think I was a bit disappointed the first time I had this because I expected it to be crazier than it was. It's still plenty enjoyable. The alcohol will hit you, but it never crosses into big stout territory. It's balanced and easy to nurse. If you check your expectations properly, it's worth tasting.
Feb 04, 2022
 
Rated: 4.04 by Blogjackets from Ohio

Jan 30, 2022
 
Rated: 4.25 by freewill35 from Indiana

Jun 17, 2021
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Reviewed by BillRoth from Maryland

4.22/5  rDev +2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Have had multiple times but always on Nitro.
Nitro enhances look and greatly enhances cask like smoothness.
Otherwise a nicely traditionally flavored Porter. Barrel and coffee are perhaps too well integrated in with malts and hops. Nothing really stands out.
Apr 02, 2021
 
Rated: 4.23 by PvtSnowball from Florida

Mar 27, 2021
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Reviewed by Peach63 from New York

4.27/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours deep copper with a 1 inch tan head, which lasts. Heavy lacing to the end.

Aroma is coffee, chocolate, roast malt.

Taste is coffee, cocoa, bourbon, oak, molasses, roast malt.

Full bodied, thick and rich, light carbonation. Dry finish.

Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of...Beer? I thought pirates drank rum. Outstanding porter!
Mar 08, 2021
Blackbeard's Breakfast from Heavy Seas Beer
Beer rating: 92 out of 100 with 443 ratings