Beer...like wine...like coffee, is full of complex flavor contributing components.  When handcrafting superior quality beer, you must source the best malt, hops, and barley.  After all, any great beer always begins with the finest ingredients.  For your coffee-enhanced porters and stouts, this same principle applies.  It is important to note that roasters in general design coffee as a stand alone beverage to be brewed with water as the only other component.  So why does this matter?  Any time you blend flavored ingredients, you either create flavor, alter flavor, or destroy flavor.  Furthermore, if you create flavor, you want to make sure it is pleasant and not objectionable.  Unless a roaster takes the time to fully understand the anatomy of the beverage in which the coffee is going into, the outcome is rather unpredictable.  We at Portola understand that World-class coffee-enhanced beers deserve more than this generic approach of using a coffee blend designed to be served as a stand-alone coffee.   That is why Portola has set out on a mission to work with craft brewmasters to design custom coffee blends designed around the flavor constituents of each individual porter or stout.  What you end up with is a proprietary blend comprised of complimentary flavors that bring out the best in your brew -  not one that is merely a "sum of it parts." 

 

Here are some reasons why your coffee-enhanced beers will taste better with Portola handcrafted coffee: