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Prairie Coffee Noir
Prairie Artisan Ales
- 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:
- 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:
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
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, 2016While 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.
More User Ratings:
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
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, 2019Reviewed 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
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, 2018Second, 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.
Prairie Coffee Noir from Prairie Artisan Ales
Beer rating:
93 out of
100 with
567 ratings
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