Of the 1172 beers on tap across Charlotte-area breweries right now, 35 are brewed with real coffee, at 31 breweries. That covers coffee stouts and porters, coffee blondes and a few surprises. A stout that only has "notes of coffee" doesn't count.
A rich coffee stout brewed with heavy amounts of chocolate and roasted malts. We then add fresh coffee beans to give this beer it's delicious flavor and aroma. It's the kind of beer you drink when you want your friends to think you're sophisticated.
A bold imperial stout brewed with cocoa nibs and locally roasted Enderly coffee. Dark, rich, and satisfying.
Our Wake Up Porter is an irresistibly smooth brew with locally roasted coffee and fresh vanilla beans. We use Central Coffee Co.’s Sumatra Lintong coffee and carefully chosen specialty malts to create a warm foundation and light body. Madagascar vanilla beans lend a subtle sweetness on the finish that you’ll notice at the end of every velvety sip.
Imperial Stout with Diner Coffee, Smoked Sea Salt, Toasted Texas Pecans, Maple Syrup, Cinnamon, and Bourbon Barrel-Aged Mexican Vanilla Beans I am never sure I will return from space. Lost here I am convoluted, living among non-sequitous curiosities. The vision is unclear, the canvas unclean. Things that dance upon backgrounds are infestations of my projections. A commitment to thought is a foolish meandering of rationality. And I am here merely as a function of physical matter. No longer a figment of sentient thought. There is a pathway to purity. Under the breaks in the rusted tin and through the splits in the wood, you too shall see it. To paint this portrait for you we blended 3 varied-age Imperial Stouts and conditioned them with appropriate Methodical Coffee, Maplewood smoked sea salt, house-toasted southern pecans, maple syrup, and cinnamon. We then added a Mexican vanilla beans aged briefly in a small bourbon cask. The crossroads of consciousness brings forward a morning cup of coffee with a fresh pack of smokes, warm Texas pecan pie, topped in vanilla whipped cream, and all the boilermaker accommodation you require.
Smooth, creamy, and irresistibly flavorful, this English-style blonde ale is brewed with East Kent Goldings hops, flaked oats, and barley, then fermented with a traditional London ale yeast for a rich, balanced profile. In the secondary, we add locally roasted coffee, vanilla, and a hint of hazelnut, creating a luscious blend of roasty, sweet, and nutty notes.
American oat brown ale brewed with microlot Burundi roasted by Pure Intentions Coffee.
Breakfast Stout brewed with flaked oats and Sumatra Coffee from Central Coffee.
Rich and decadent featuring Spicewalla's Pumpkin Pie Spice and High Noon's Honduran coffee.
Vietnamese iced coffee is a decadent drink known to be stronger, bolder, and sweeter than your everyday drip brew. This version of our illustrious Imperial Stout Series is brewed with Asheville's own High Noon Coffee and a double portion of milk sugar (lactose) to create an extra roasty and creamy pastry stout.
Golden Stout w/Coffee, Cacao Nibs and Vanilla Beans
2025 3rd place NC Brewers Cup 2024 1st Place People's Choice Queen City Beer Festival Silky smooth porter with coffee and vanilla soft serve ice cream
This cream ale takes the traditional blend of malt, flaked corn, and oats and a touch of lactose combines it with a hint of Amarillo hops to balance the traditional sweetness of the ale. Conditioned on Tahitian vanilla beans and coffee beans from our friends at Summit Coffee to give this beer finished with subtle notes of vanilla and a fresh coffee flavor.
A dark roasty stout, complemented by an addition of roast coffee beans in the fermenter.
A hefty porter with malty sweetness from dark crystal malts and heaps of roasty chocolate + black malts. Conditioned on Knowledge Perk cold brew coffee and vanilla for a robust and luxurious finish.
Barley, wheat and malts come together with coffee from our friends at Knowledge Perk to create this unique blonde stout with coffee aroma and flavor, finished with a hint of white chocolate. ***No lactose
We use local coffee from Charlotte, NC to compliment the chocolate, caramel and toffee flavors in this stout.
Blonde Ale brewed with Madagascar vanilla beans and coffee.
In honor of those that put the needs of others above their own, this black IPA uses loads of hops and Midnight Wheat malt to form a dark yet refreshing experience. Flavored with organic espresso beans.
Pumpkin Cinnamon Bun Blonde Stout brewed with Coffee, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Cacao Nibs, Pumpkin, and fresh whipped Icing Glaze. (Gluten Reduced) Contains Lactose
A coffee porter brewed using coffee from Badin Coffee, a local roastery
Our Coffee Dark Lager sits at 4.7%, luscious & creamy but perfectly balanced. Steeped with Knowledge Perk coffee to give it a richness like no other!
Doom Forge Imperial Coffee Stout is an American-Style Imperial Stout with one pound per barrel coffee from our friends at Figure 8 Coffee Purveyors in Austin, TX.
Conditioned on vanilla hazelnut coffee beans
Vermont coffee & Vermont maple syrup
Blends rich and easy drinking Porter with locally sourced, 100% organic, fair-trade coffee. Smooth and drinkable with mild dark fruit flavors and bittersweet dark chocolate coffee finish.
A delectable spin on Coffee Blondes, this beer is made with locally roasted Sugar Creek Cold Brew coffee and cardamom. Each batch is made with a new variety of coffee bean to give subtle differences in flavor.
A One-off version of our Blonde Ale rested on Pumpkin Spice Coffee and lactose added! Only one keg made at a time!
Coffee vanilla blonde ale
A coffee beer has real coffee in it. Brewers add whole beans, cold brew or espresso, usually after fermentation so the aroma survives, and often source it from a local roaster. A lot of dark beers taste a bit like coffee without any in them, because roasted barley and dark malts are roasted much like coffee beans. Those stouts aren't on this list unless the brewery says coffee went in.
35 coffee beers are on tap at 31 Charlotte-area breweries. The most right now: Hi-Wire Brewing (2), Legal Remedy Brewing (2), Old Well Brewery (2) and Suffolk Punch Brewing (2).
We count a beer when coffee is in its name or style, or its description says coffee went in ("brewed with", "conditioned on", "cold brew", a named roaster). Tasting-note mentions of coffee don't count. Nitro cold brew served on its own isn't beer, so it's left out too.
