Field Recordings - IPA Coffee Sour
North Brewing Co in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
IPA - Sour / Wild Series|
Score
7.14
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With the help of Dark Woods Coffee we have been incredibly lucky to be able to source Sebastian Ramirez, El Placer Colombia Pink Bourbon IPA Coffee Beans. El Pacer, owned by Sebastian Ramirez is a pioneering coffee farm situated at over 1700m in Calarca, Quindio, focusing on modern processing and big flavours.
The coffee is unique in its production. Using a 200 hour carbonic ‘honey’ maceration with the addition of hops and beer yeast in order to extract the coffee bean from the cherry fruit. This process imparts flavours of pine, bramble, hops and mango to this special coffee.
We’ve taken the process one step further and infused the coffee into a clean sour beer with a touch of lemon zest. The result is a highly complex beer. Smooth, slightly acidic, a touch sweet and rounded with a backdrop of fresh, light roast coffee. Red berry, mango, smooth chocolate and a drying tannin finish are elevated by the beer’s low carbonation, gentle sourness and zest tones.
The coffee is unique in its production. Using a 200 hour carbonic ‘honey’ maceration with the addition of hops and beer yeast in order to extract the coffee bean from the cherry fruit. This process imparts flavours of pine, bramble, hops and mango to this special coffee.
We’ve taken the process one step further and infused the coffee into a clean sour beer with a touch of lemon zest. The result is a highly complex beer. Smooth, slightly acidic, a touch sweet and rounded with a backdrop of fresh, light roast coffee. Red berry, mango, smooth chocolate and a drying tannin finish are elevated by the beer’s low carbonation, gentle sourness and zest tones.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can from the Beer Bank, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Malaysia. Poured a clear yellow golden colour with lasting frothy white head and lots of bubbles. The aroma is yeasty sour, cucumber. The flavour is moderate sour, with a fresh, crisp, juicy lemon, herbal cucumber, dry spicy coffee finish. Medium to light bodied with lively carbonation. Refreshing.
Tried
from Can
at
Beer Bank : Kuala Lumpur City Centre
on 04 Jun 2026
at 16:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Gedeelde Vreugde.
A: clear golden, stable, foamy, white head.
A: coffee bean, cucumber, kefir, lemon zest, celery.
T: sour cucumber, lime, bitter coffee, earth.
F: soft earthy & herbal hops, tart lemon & coffee bean.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
The combination works well, but I might have expected a bit more complexity.
A: clear golden, stable, foamy, white head.
A: coffee bean, cucumber, kefir, lemon zest, celery.
T: sour cucumber, lime, bitter coffee, earth.
F: soft earthy & herbal hops, tart lemon & coffee bean.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
The combination works well, but I might have expected a bit more complexity.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2025
at 09:53
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Can at home. Opaque golden pour with a thin head. The beer is a coffee sour, and so it’s got notes of coffee and a clean, lactic sourness. So far nothing surprising here, but the coffee character is interesting enough to look further into. On the nose it’s fruity, lightly chocolatey that paird nicely with the citrus zest. Punchy yet layered. In the taste it’s fruity and citric, initially I thought it was the coffee but I had to realise it has to be hops. The sour base, the hops and the coffee work extremely well together, it’s a simple beer but also nuanced and layered at the same time somehow, I quite dig it.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 09:06
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can. Clear golden, white head. Aroma of coffee, lemon. Taste is dominated by the coffee, with hoppy citrusy (lemon) notes, the sourness is a little odd against the bitterness of the coffee, and there's an almost chocolatey note there too. Although not really my thing, I think this does sort of work in a weird way.
Tried
from Can
on 05 May 2023
at 19:05