Cafe Brillante
Agrarian Ales

Teaming up with our friend Dan from Playhouse Coffee, our team sat down and did a proper coffee tasting to find the ultimate roast for a custom beer. Sampling and discussing different roasts and origins we finally settled on a single origin bean from Guatemala with our own blend of dark roasts. To properly accentuate the bold bitterness and dark chocolate flavors of this blend we catered the beer recipe to highlight and not overpower the dark richness of the coffee. Creating the beer with a lightly roasted barley, a toasty Munich malt, and rolled oats gave this ale a dry, toasted, malty complexity without the characteristic blackened notes of a stout. This left room in the flavor spectrum for the dark roast coffee to come through unimpeded. Using a cold extraction method with the beans, we were able to keep the smooth presence of coffee to infuse into our newest truly handcrafted ale; Cafe Brillante. The finished result tastes just like the name implies, sparkly coffee in beer form!