4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
500ml bottle from Wine and Cheese Place poured into a shaker. Pours black with two fingers of dark brown head. Aroma of citrus, grapefruit, caramel and honey. So far it looks like an imperial stout and smells like an IIPA. Taste is medium bitter. Lots of citrus hops with a huge amount of roasty malt. Like a porter that dresses up in his big sisters clothes...this beer isn’t sure what it wants to be. Full bodied with a thick texture. Lively carbonation and a long bitter finish. Overall, this one is great. I would love to try this again some time in the future.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at @ De Molen. Aroma is roasty malt, some hops, but the malt dominates. Flavour is quite bitter, with a sweet roasty finish, you can taste there once was a big hop msack in the face. Nice beer now, but probably awesome when fresh.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
2010, not exactly what you want in a black IPA, but it’s worth a try. Pours black with a small tan head. Nose is heavy chocolate, coffee and licorice. smells great. Taste is more chocolate with very little bitter. Oddly enough, it tastes great, more like a stout than an IPA. Mouthfeel is creamy and slick, leaves a wonderful aftertaste. I should probably rate this lower as it doesn’t keep with the style of a Black IPA, but I also have to consider that it is 2 years old. So I will go in the middle. Very good after two years.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Nose is hops and sweet malts, some caramel. Dark beer with light brown head. Taste is nice malts, some raisin and some hops. Nice full-bodied beer, soft but really fine carbonation.
Brewdate of 27-5-2010 probably made this beer far less hoppy than expected. Still a very nice one!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Solid dark, small tan head. Raisin, grainy, cake and sticky. Tasty, but sharp and stays the same throughout the palate. Roasted notes, short finish. Could do with some extra malty base and spiciness. (At the De Molen brewery tasting.)
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at monthly tasting @ De Molen. 1,5 years old bottle. Dark pour, foamy tan head. Aroma is roasty, quite hoppy, raisins, yeasty, some chocolate and licorice. Flavor is bitter, some resin and raisins, malty roasted and some old hops. Would possibly have been better fresh.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
From a bottle. Pours near black with brown head. Aroma is big with, chocolate, coffee, pine and resin, little soapy. Similar taste, massive flavour, lots going on, very rich chocolate and coffee with plenty of hops. Thick palate, sweet with a bitter finish. More like a hoppy imperial stout. Very well executed.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 50 cl from erzbierschof.ch. All black poured with a nice tan head. Malted roasted aromas with aromatic hops. There is some toffy and licorice too, dark bitter chocolate and acidity. The taste is roasted malt, cocoa, toast burned, enhanced with resined bitterness, licorice-molasses and wet wood. Body average, ideal texture, elegant balance between all the elements. Final on rather long and earthy notes with a bitterness of burned and oily hop.
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