Chefs and bartenders across the nation are blending beer into beermosas and Bloody Marys, infusing it into their benedicts and gravies, and pairing it alongside breakfast items at multi-course brunches. The lineup of 2014 Great American Beer Festival breakfasts and brunches was proof alone that it is undoubtedly the year of the beer brunch.
In stride with beer’s new spot at the breakfast table, my Beer for Breakfast column has rounded up the best oatmeal stouts to pair with biscuits & gravy, delved into the wide variety of benedicts for Berliner Weisse pairings, and tabulated the best table beers for Easter brunch. Inspired by a summer backpacking trip, the column also covered the best canned beers to crack open at the campsite.
In this post-GABF edition of Beer for Breakfast, I present to you the breakfast beers that will eliminate your hangover, jumpstart your day with caffeine, and fill you up all at once. Obviously, I’m talking about coffee beers. Brewed with cold-press and aged on roasted beans, these robust, hearty, and nuanced beers are meals in themselves, not to mention they make for some interesting collaborations between brewers and their local coffee roasters.