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SOMA Caffeinated Stout — Dark Arts Espresso
Dark Arts, wide awake. The same velvet stout, brewed with cold-brew coffee — the only SOMA with caffeine.
Dark Arts Espresso is the Dark Arts you know — roasted barley, chocolate malt, that velvet pour — brewed with cold-brew coffee, so the espresso on the nose is real coffee and the caffeine is real too. It is the can for the early start and the late night that used to mean a third espresso. Non-alcoholic, under 0.5% ABV, and the only SOMA that contains caffeine; the amount per can will be printed on the label.
<0.5% ABV · 99 kcal per 500ml can (indicative) · ABV lab-tested every batch. Contains caffeine from cold-brew coffee — the amount per can will be printed on the label.
Pre-order: production starts after December 2026 and nothing ships before then. You pay now, we email your delivery window before the first batch goes out, and you can cancel for a full refund any time before dispatch.
Ingredients
Water, barley malt, roasted barley, chocolate malt, cold-brew coffee, hops, yeast, natural flavours. Contains caffeine. Contains gluten. No artificial flavours, no preservatives, no added sugar.
Per 500ml can
- 99 kcal per 500ml can (indicative)
- 0g added sugar
- <0.5% ABV
- 0 additives
Delivery & returns
Flat ₹29 delivery anywhere in Bangalore. Rinse and recycle your empty cans. 18+ only.
Meet Dark Arts Espresso
The whole story.
Dark Arts Espresso is the Dark Arts you know — roasted barley, chocolate malt, that velvet pour — brewed with cold-brew coffee. The espresso on the nose is real coffee, and the caffeine is real too: this is the only SOMA that contains it.
Expect a near-black pour with a tan head, a body somewhere between cold brew and cream, and a dry roasted finish that lingers. It is built for the early alarm and the late night that used to mean a third espresso. The caffeine figure per can will be printed on the label.
The pour
Deep brown-black, tan head
The nose
Fresh espresso, cocoa, dark caramel
The sip
Velvety, roasty, coffee-forward
The finish
Dry roast, long, a little awake
How it’s brewed
Roasted barley + chocolate malt · cold-brew coffee · Fuggle hops · maltose-negative yeast · under 0.5% ABV
Real mash, real boil, real fermentation. We ferment with a maltose-negative yeast, a brewer’s yeast that cannot eat maltose, the main sugar in beer wort. It eats the simple sugars, builds the esters and depth of a fermented beer, and leaves the alcohol under 0.5% ABV.
Calorie, carbohydrate and protein figures are indicative: they are calculated from the recipe and will be confirmed by laboratory testing.
Drink it with
All of the beer. None of the hangovers.
The ritual of craft beer — the pour, the head, the first cold sip — with the alcohol under 0.5% ABV and no morning after.
Real beer, really
Real mash, real boil, real fermentation with a maltose-negative yeast. Not a malt-flavored soft drink.
Under 0.5% ABV
Fermented with a maltose-negative yeast that keeps the alcohol under 0.5% ABV.
Founded in Bangalore
Founded in Bangalore, India, and priced for India — from ₹99, not a converted foreign shelf price.
Cans and bottles
200ml and 330ml glass bottles, and 250ml and 500ml aluminium cans. Both are recyclable, and aluminium can be recycled again and again.
Under 100 calories per 250ml
Once we are in production, each 250ml can will have less than 100 calories. There is no added sugar.
No hangover
Drink three on a Tuesday. Wake up at six feeling exactly like yourself.