Coffee Blonde

Coffee Blonde is a blonde ale brewed with local coffee under the Caiseal Beer & Spirits name at The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery in Hampton, Virginia.

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Specs

Brewery Description

The brewery's own site carries no description; its tap list is a live embed that did not render. The BeerMenus listing for the beer reads:

Fifteen pounds of local rogue elephant coffee in each batch gives this blonde ale a surprising roasted coffee character

Source: BeerMenus: Caiseal Coffee Blonde Ale

Tasting Notes

gives this blonde ale a surprising roasted coffee character

Source: beermenus.com

Ingredients

The only named ingredient is the coffee, from the local roaster Rogue Elephant, added at fifteen pounds per batch (BeerMenus). No hops, malts or yeast are published.

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Coffee Beer says these beers "incorporate coffee in any form," with coffee character as the defining attribute; color, ABV and IBU vary with the underlying style. A coffee blonde ale at 5.5% fits that open definition, with a pale base carrying the roast character.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery is in Hampton, VA.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram.

Related

• Brewery: The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery

Links

• The Vanguard: drinks menu
• The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery
• The Vanguard: Caiseal tap list
• BeerMenus: Caiseal Coffee Blonde Ale
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: IBU. Checked beermenus.com, thevanguard757.com, thevanguard757.com, thevanguard757.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name, thevanguard757.com, thevanguard757.com, yaymaker.com, virginiaspirits.org, coastalvirginiamag.com, visithampton.com.
• Not Found: Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Water. Checked beermenus.com, thevanguard757.com, thevanguard757.com, thevanguard757.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, thevanguard757.com, thevanguard757.com, yaymaker.com, virginiaspirits.org, coastalvirginiamag.com, visithampton.com.

Research Notes

• The brewery site has no beer pages; the Caiseal tap list page is powered by an embedded live list that returned no beers when fetched.
• Every spec comes from the BeerMenus listing, which names Caiseal Beer & Spirits Co. (The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery), Hampton, VA, as the brewer; it was not confirmed on the brewery's own site.
• The calorie figure is a BeerMenus listing value, not a brewery figure.
• No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: The brewery's drinks menu names Coffee Blonde Ale and is used as beer url because no dedicated page was found. It names no IBU or hops. Its 5.3% ABV differs from the existing BeerMenus 5.5%; the existing value is retained.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery description carried by BeerMenus gives the coffee dose per batch and its roasted coffee character; no hops, malts or yeast are named.
• Brewery site scrape 2026-10-14: found nothing new; 4 pages tried (robots.txt obeyed, one request every few seconds per host).
• Second deep dive pass 2026-10-14 (BeerMenus brewery-supplied description, regional press search): found nothing new; 5 pages tried. No IBU, color, gravity, hops, malts, yeast or water published. BeerMenus repeats the brewery blurb that fifteen pounds of local rogue elephant coffee goes in each batch (coffee supplier name as printed there); no other new fact.