ABC Haagse Harry Wintâh Bieâh

ABC Beers
Brewed at Scheldebrouwerij
Style: Black IPA
The Hague, Netherlands

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle from ABC Beers, Den Haag. Poured a cloudy dark brown with a thin tan head. The aroma is dominated by the yeast. The flavour is medium bitter, yeasty, with a slightly oily, acidic feel to the palate. The bitterness lingers for a while into the aftertaste. A super satisfying beer!

Dark cloudy brown with a lasting, thick, tan, sticky, lacy head. Smells of sweet caramel malt, ripe fruit – plum, liquorish and soft spices. Medium thin body. Tastes of sweet liquorish, caramel, yeast, ripe dark fruit, and chocolate. Nice rounded taste that hides the 7.5% incredibly well. Went down easy.

Poured a clear amber with a frothy tan head. Aroma of sweet toasted caramel malt and dark fruit. Medium creamy body, flavour of the aroma, quite sweet with a lingering alcoholic burn.

33cl Bottle from ABC Beers. Hazy dark brown colour, off-white head. Aroma of yeast, ripe fruits like banana and red apples, dark fruits, not very hoppy. Flavour is sweet, malty, fruity, yeast, ripe dark fruits, light hoppy bitter with a hint of liquorice. Light to medium-bodied. A fruity and yeasty Belgian ale in my book.

Bottle from ABC Beers. Pours a dark brown, almost black colored beer with a small tanned head. Aroma has chocolate, roast and faint hops. Considering this will be a older bottle, hops have faded. Flavour is good, medium bitter with roasty tones.. no chocolate flavors, some hop appearances.. Nice black IPA.. from The Hague!

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Unclear, dark brown, light beige head. Malty aroma with overripe fruit. Taste like aroma, some rye as well. Rather bitter and dry as well. Good body and carbo.

From a bottle shared with Deanso. Pours a dark cloudy brown. Raisin and toffe aroma. Caramel with a mild hop backbone. Lingering bitter after taste.

UPDATED: AUG 15, 2012 Brown murky body and beige bubbly head; room for improvement here. Earthy, dark hops, even some milk chocolate. Nutty, enough hops. Balanced, well hopped enough albeit rounded off, Belgian yeast. Nice! (At the De Molen tasting)

I should not be drinking this on a warm May night but it was next in line. Guess you could call this a black ipa. Nice deep rye, molasses aroma flavor. Nice. Bottle from Berts Bierwinkel in Utrecht.

Sampled @ PINT Winterbierfestival, Gouda 2012. Cloudy hazy amber brown color, decent sized off-white head. Smell lightly malts, sweet and lightly hoppy. Taste malts, lightly hops, lightly bitter. Average carbonation and body. Decent.