Beavertown Black Betty

Brewed by Beavertown
Style: Black IPA
London, England

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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330ml bottle. Nearly total blackness with a light brown head. The aroma is really excellent, with bucketloads of American hops conjuring up citrus, passion fruit and black grapes. It plays well against notes of cola and roasted malt that help to balance things out. Oily and viscous mouthfeel with a powerful bitter finish. Really impressive stuff all round.

(Bottle, Duke’s Brew & Cue, Haggerston, London, 25 Apr 2013) Black colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of coffee, chocolate, liquorice, resin and pine needles. Malty, roasted taste with liquorice, black coffee, dark chocolate and generous amounts of resinous, piney hops. More than medium body, quite dry. Impressive black IPA with lots of coffee, chocolate and hops. Excellent beer.

Bottle. Black ale with medium head that reduces to a residual head with good lacing. Aroma of hops and hops. Taste is a little coffee and quite a bit of hops, grapefruit and roasted malts. A little carbonation and oil on the palate. Good stuff.

Bottle 330ml. @ home.

[ Trade by madmitch76 ]. Unclear dark dark blak brown colour with a large to huge, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, moderate to heavy hoppy, grass, pine, grapefruit, dusty hops - hop cones. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, soapy, citrus bitter, hoppy bitter, dark malt, dry grass. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130325]

33cl bottle. Pitch black with tanned head. The head is medium big. Nose : strong roasted aromas of malt. Coffee with milk, black chocolate. Pine and pomelo peel. Sip : well carbonated with medium thick body. Very sweet, almost like honey. Roasted aromas, black chocolate aftertaste. The beer is well hopped with pine and citrus aromas. After couple of sips I get some earthy notes and feeling on my tongue. Very good balance. A bit to cloying sweet though.

Appearance: Dark and subtle red color with a creamy beige head that leaves a lovely lacing.
Aroma: Dark malt, rich hoppy and fruity.
Palate: Medium pluss body. Slightly sweet and a rich bitterness. Average carbonation. Oily texture.
Taste: A round fine dark malty base. Grape hoppy, fruity and coffee.
Overall impression: Lovely stuff!
Personal stats: Bottle from a trade with tomman.

UPDATED: APR 21, 2013 A rather complex flavour, first of all it tastes like ipa, Hoppy, floral, then there is an intense minerality, a sucker punch of sweet, bitter, sour fading to an aftertaste of bitterness, stout-like coffee flavour. Interesting, the alcohol really comes through.

(33 cl bottle from Duke’s Brew and Que; No BBD) Pours black with medium, tan head. Good retention and lace. Aroma is fresh herbal, grassy and sprucy hops with no detectable malt aroma. Oily texture, full body, medium carbonation and a bitter finish. Flavour reveaks a very smooth and well composed hoppy drinking experience with sufficient malt to put a dampener on the bitterness but without the roasted qualities that sometimes accompany dark beers. Very well done.

330ml bottle. Couldn’t get excited about this, the aroma and flavour reminded me of CocaCola and it had about the same complexity. Reasonably well made thoughand could be far more complex if there was a decent proportion of hops in the copper rather than mainly post fermentation addition.

Bottle at BrewDog Pub, Camden Town, London. Black beer with a medium offwhite/beige head. Hoppy, fruity and cassis aroma. Similar flavour.