Prairie Coffee Noir

Coffee Noir is Prairie Noir kicked up a notch! Whole roasted espresso beans are added to the barrels in order to enhance the roasted and chocolate malt flavors in this intense beer.

3.7

151 reviews

Tulsa, United States

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3.6 Draught @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2017 - Green Session Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of malt, coffee, caramel and chocolate. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long coffee and caramel finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

4.1 Bottle from Highland 1-29-17 Reminiscent of a cafe corretto

4.2 Fat på MBCC 2017. Smak och doft av kaffe, espresso, bourbon, lönnsirap, kolaremmar, vanilj med toner av ek. Stor sötma, maffig och komplex kropp, viss syrlighet, fin beska. Mycket gott!

3.7 Bottle @ Home. Black and viscous beer with a short lived tan head. Smells of vanilla, hazelnut, and coffee. Has a touch of condensed milk, too. Rich dark chocolate and plenty of brownie. Mild wood and booze. The flavor is certainly sweet and has a bit of heat to it, but there is a lot of nice spicy coffee and a slight earthiness. It's kind of the same as all of these high boost Prairie beers, in that it's too sweet. But, the coffee does at least balance some of that out.

4.0 Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles’ place. Thanks troubles. Black with a quickly dissolving tan head. Dry, smoke, slightly chocolate milk and then dry, more chocolate in the nose, lots of date honey, roast and vanilla and chocolate cake in the mouth. Full body, good fizz, long, date honey and chocolate and wood finish.

3.9 Draught @ MBCC 2017. Pours black with brown head. Aroma of roated malt, coffee, caramel, coffee beans, little vegetables, nuts. Flavor is sweet, light bitter bitter, malt, caramel, coffee, coffee beans, luckily no veggies in taste, nut, alcohol. Medium to full body, average carbonation, sweet finish with warming alcohol. 130517

3.8 Bottle shared by Dan - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of whiskey, coffee, oak, chocolate - medium body

3.7 Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Black with small beige head. Aroma is coffee, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is coffee, chocolate, and espresso.

3.7 12 ounce bottle in the lineup of the rest of the variance. Pours out blacktop the small-time head. Nose is coffee some green peppers a hint of vanilla maybe and chocolate. Taste is more of the nice fresh roasted coffee a little expresso Maybe green peppers Touch of heat and some Barrel notes.

4.0 Tap@MBCC May 2017, Copenhagen - black pour with a tan head. Roasted and sweet malty with prominent roasted coffee, chocolate, caramel, earthy charred burnt malty accents, spices, some vanilla into the finish.

4.6 Söt ganska drickvänlig IS med mycket choklad och fudge. De 11.5% är väl dolda. Lät lite tjärig beska räddar balansen.

3.9 MBCC. Black with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, liquorice and espresso. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, espresso, liquorice, notes of chilli, sweet and notes of alcohol.

3.7 From tap at MBCC 2017. A black beer with a tan head. Aroma and flavour of coffee, chocolate, oak, bourbon, caramel and roasted malt.

4.2 Pours black with a very low tan head. Aromas of caramel, coffee, oak, whisky, vanilla, chocolate. Taste is complex with oak and barrel notes along with chocolate and caramel notes and slight burnt notes. Mouthfeel is full bodied and very slight oily character.

3.7 I take my coffee strong and black, and the brewers at Prairie may well have been cut from the same cloth. Coffee Noir’s taste is pure earthy espresso. Aside from some undercurrents of char and dark chocolate, you’re out of luck if you wanted to taste anything other than bold coffee. That works for me. While part of me would like some more bright acidity and subtle fruitiness from the coffee, you can’t fault the unmistakable intensity. Very, very good.

4.0 Bottle. A- Earthy, coffee, whiskey. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Coffee, earthy, slightly boozy. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Another success in the Noir series of beers. The aging only helps the beer and the coffee works well. I wish they would combine this with the vanilla noir. That would really make for quite the beer.

3.3 Shared at the Prairie Everything Dark/Kill Your Liver Extravaganza at Jeff’s House on July 1. 12 oz bottle, 2013 vintage. This one might be infected. It’s excessively tart. The pour is a darker brown/black with a thin ring of lighter tan head that almost fizzles away without any lace. The aroma is definitely tart and fruity. There is a nice coffee and a roastiness about it. There is a light whiskey, but the tartness is an interesting change. I like sour stouts, but this is messy. The flavor is equally interesting. The roasty malt and chocolate work with a light coffee and a strong alcohol and light barrel. The tartness is messy throughout. It’s surprising. The mouth feel is lighter medium bodied with a sharper carbonation and a lingeringly tart coffee finish. This is just a mess. Hmm. 7 4 6 3 13

3.8 Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles’ place. Thanks troubles. Black with a tan head. Great aroma with lots of coffee beans, vanilla, whiskey, wood, chocolate, a bit of ash. Sweet flavor, a bit of umami, a bit of alcohol. Full-bodied, rounded. Really good.

3.7 Pours very dark with a tan orangish head. The aroma has coffee, chili peppers, chocolate and heavy roast. It has a full body with lots of carbonation. The taste has heavy roast, coffee, spicy peppers, green apples and chocolate. Pretty nice.

3.8 Dark black. Smells peppery. Didnt get much coffee at first but as it warms up the espresso stands out. Not getting alot of barrel. Thx vyvvy.

2.8 Bottle shared at the Prairie Stout Extravaganza. Aroma is tart apple, coffee, roasted malt, questionable. Appearance is dark brown, light brown head, poured thin, might be infected. Taste is roasted malt, tart apple, coffee, probably infected. Mouthfeel is medium body, light carbonation, tart apple and bitter coffee aftertaste. Overall, this one is way past its prime.

4.1 At Dror’s place, pours black with a beige head, aroma of chocolate, coffee, roasted, wood, flavor of chocolate, caramel, wood, bourbon, full bodied, nice

4.2 Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2017, green session. Dark brown color with a bit of brown foam. Smells like black coffee and dark malts. Taste has lots of bitter, fresh roasted coffee without the astringency you normally get in coffee beers.

4.1 MBCC. Black with a small brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, heavy coffee and vegetables. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. Oily. 130517

3.9 Sample at MBCC 2017. Black with a small tan head. Sweet with bourbon, coffee, roasted malt and chocolate. The body was kind of full and the finish long. A pleasant one.

4.0 Sample at MBCC 2017. Smell of coffee. Similar taste with dark malts, caramel and toasted sugar. Very sweet. Low carbonation. Nice!

3.9 Mbcc green. Black. Roasty espresso beans, dark roasted coffee beans on nose, malty. Full bodied, intense, long finidh. Some sweetness, dark syrupy, malty flavour. Real nice, intense stuff.

4.1 Provad på MBCC-17. Stor IS med syrlig espresso med lite sumpkaraktär, choklad och rostad malt i massor, bourbon, lönnsirap, kolaremmar. Stor och maffig och väldigt god trots att kaffet kanske inte satt klockrent.

4.3 Sampled at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2017. Pitch black pour with a tan head. Notes of coffee dominating the flavour profile, followed by chocolate, cocoa, smooth barrel in the background. Nice!

4.0 Keg at cbc17 Green.. Dark black.. Massive coffee chocolate roast malts nose.. Heavy dry chocolate.. Massive coffee.. Burnt coffee