Prairie Coffee Noir
Prairie Artisan Ales

Prairie Coffee NoirPrairie Coffee Noir
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From:
Prairie Artisan Ales
 
Oklahoma, United States
Style:
American Imperial Stout
Ranked #1,275
ABV:
11.5%
Score:
93
Ranked #4,070
Avg:
4.16 | pDev: 10.58%
Reviews:
77
Ratings:
567
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jun 21, 2023
Added:
Dec 24, 2013
Wants:
  119
Gots:
  119
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.
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Ratings by John_M:
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Reviewed by John_M from Washington

4.2/5  rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
The beer pours a blackish brown color with pretty good head retention and light, sticky lacing. The nose is about what you'd expect in beer a coffee noir beer from Prairie. There is a lot of coffee in the aroma profile, but I thought it blended in pretty nicely with the customary dark chocolate and vanilla I've come to expect in these rich sweet beers. The flavor profile replicates the nose pretty closely, though I will say that I thought this beer improved considerably as it warmed in the glass (if one has patience, then I would recommend letting the bottle sit out for 15 or 20 minutes, if you take it right out of the fridge). Mouthfeel was just a tad thin I thought, at least in comparison to other Bomb and Noir beers I've had from Prairie. Even so, the mouthfeel is still fairly full (especially after it warmed up a bit), and the finish is fairly long, with plenty of sweet vanilla and chocolate. Alcohol is very well integrated into the flavor profile, though of course you can tell it's up there a bit.

While maybe not quite as decadently delicious as some of the other noir and bomb variants made by prairie, this is still a very tasty, easy to appreciate beer.
Dec 29, 2016
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4.5 by paulish from New York

Jun 21, 2023
 
Rated: 4.49 by BMBCLT from South Carolina

Apr 01, 2021
 
Rated: 4.1 by NathanBeets from South Dakota

Apr 30, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by Winston3737 from Michigan

Apr 20, 2019
 
Rated: 3.97 by nruhlig from Minnesota

Mar 16, 2019
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Reviewed by jheimbigner from Washington

4.38/5  rDev +5.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Good coffee BA stout. Noir is such a great base beer that is so versatile to adjucts. Pours black with a dark tan head that dissapates. Bourbon, coffee, chocolate, and vanilla on the nose. Barrel, coffee, vanilla, brown sugar, and slight astringency from the coffee on the palate. Great think mouth feel that coats the tounge.
Feb 10, 2019
 
Rated: 4.25 by ricknelson from Vermont

Jan 07, 2019
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Reviewed by mschrei from Illinois

4.65/5  rDev +11.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
First off, this beer is much better than it's rated. Much better.

Second, Prairie is a very consistent brewery, maybe one of the most consistent around. Out of 21 beers rated (including this one), I have rated all but one of them over the average on this site. I haven't done the math on everything I have rated, but that seems like a pretty damn good average to me.

So this is yet another that backs up my high appraisal of them. Look is the usual appearance for their barrel aged stouts-dark, thinning brownish edges, not much in the way of activity. Smell is easily the best part of it-big boozy barrel sitting on top of a malty chocolate/coffee background. Taste has more of the woody and boozy barrel presence in the forefront, but the coffee and chocolate flavors come through extremely well. Feel is EXTREMELY smooth, a sublimely subtle booze presence for an 11.5 abv.

Prairie, you bastards, you done it again.

Thanks.
Dec 07, 2018
 
Rated: 4.1 by smi69 from New York

Nov 22, 2018
 
Rated: 4.06 by broadway848 from New York

Nov 02, 2018
 
Rated: 3.98 by rbrefbeerman from California

Oct 12, 2018
 
Rated: 4.49 by Biggiekrock627 from Maryland

Apr 13, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by krome from Illinois

Mar 26, 2018
 
Rated: 4.25 by jgunther71 from Illinois

Mar 26, 2018
 
Rated: 4.16 by OKbrew89 from Oklahoma

Mar 25, 2018
 
Rated: 4.23 by bl00 from Pennsylvania

Mar 21, 2018
 
Rated: 4.43 by Justdoit1234 from Minnesota

Jan 29, 2018
 
Rated: 4.02 by Moses_Malone from District of Columbia

Jan 24, 2018
 
Rated: 4.24 by nwhittin from Indiana

Jan 20, 2018
Prairie Coffee Noir from Prairie Artisan Ales
Beer rating: 93 out of 100 with 567 ratings