Review: Fieldstone Coffee Roasters’ Double Barrel Aged Beer, Bourbon, Coffee

(2022) The field guide involving the double barrel treatment is one of blunt explosive force, but the coffee guide experience is much more peaceful. Fieldstone Coffee Roasters, located in Ottsville, PA, teamed up with local brewery Weyerbacher Brewing to produce a collaboration that is perfect either brewed or on nitro. Available for a limited time, this bag of beans is worth the quick ride up the ridge and a cold brew.

Weyerbacher Brewing, located in Easton, PA, is known for quality libations stemming from quality ingredients. Weyerbacher’s Breakfast Stout is one of those quality brews. Its flavor profile comes from the fact that after brewing, Weyerbacher stores the stout in bourbon barrels to allow vanilla and oak flavors to enter the liquid. Typically, that’s the beginning of the line for the stout and the end of the line for the barrel. That is, until Fieldstone Coffee Roasters stepped in.

With lingering flavors of bourbon as well as deep flavors of stout, Fieldstone stored their beans in Weyerbacher barrels to absorb all that goodness. The end result is the beans available for purchase and the thick nitro on tap. After spending some time enjoying nitro Double Barrel, a heavy flavor experience, we rushed home and brewed up some coffee.

From the outset the beans are clean and dry, as dark roasts should be. Grinding to a powdery setting, the coffee passed off an explosive aroma. Everyone in the office could tell a new type of coffee was being used. With a heavy body, Double Barrel pours out clean but not thick. Dark as stout in large quantities, Double Barrel is relatively light in the mug. The aroma of Breakfast Stout hazes about the surface of the brew.

Around here, we love dark roasts. Sometimes those dark roasts can leave us feeling worn out. Not Double Barrel, though, as it produces a wild ride of strong flavors that activate various parts of the tongue. Expect flavorful tingles on the outside as each flavor passes over. This is the brew that will be consumed and then brewed again. It’s the Breakfast Stout with the alcohol. 

Considering this is a limited edition roast, Fieldstone Roasters’ Double Barrel Aged, Beer, Bourbon, Coffee is perfect for those wet lazy weekend mornings where outside chores get rescheduled each hour and the empty coffee mugs pile up. While a Double Barrel discharge is a blunt explosion, Fieldstone Coffee Roasters’ Double Barrel is much more peaceful and enjoyable. Without the jolt and chest butterflies, we’ll be charged up to check off the to-do list pretty quickly when breakfast moves into lunch.