Evil Twin / Omnipollo Russian Roulette

Evil Twin Brewing
Brewed at Amager Bryghus
Style: Black IPA
Copenhagen / Brooklyn, Denmark

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle. Pours black with a beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, citrus hops and spruce. Flavor is sweet and bitter with some citrus, pine, cheesy hops and spruce. Medium body, average carbonation.

16.9 oz bottle to taster (thanks tmoney99). Looks good; black with sticky beige lacing. Smells solid; bitter hops and malt. Tastes like it smells with a good mouthfeel. Nice.

bottled, thanks to bu11zeye, black colored pour, thick tan foam, bitter roasty chocolate with a burnt finish, pretty good

50cl bottle @ Beer Temple. Opaque, almost pitch black color with a slight dark red glare coming through when held into the light. Full sized, lightly creamy, light brown head that lasts for a long time. Smell roasted malts, hops, some coffee, a hint of mocha. Taste malts, roasted malts, slightly burned, bitterness, hops and lightly some fruits. Medium body, medium to full carbonation. Very nice beer!

In short: A highly roasted, yeasty and uber-bitter Black IPA. Too harsh and lacking balance
How: Bottle 500ml at Dr. Jekyll’s Pub, Oslo Norway
The look: Black body topped by a medium tan head with medium retention
In long: Nose is intensely hoppy with a mix of floral and grapefruity hops. Some roast on the nose too and also a perfume sensation. Taste is harsh. Some totally burnt malts swimming in yeast, a little burnt coffee beans sensation and maybe some burnt black cake. With such a strong burnt malt flavor I can taste anything burnt, burnt tobacco, burnt wood, burnt anything, you name it. Anyway, except for the burnt flavor the malts remain pretty discreet and with all that yeast you feel like you’re drinking a fluffy ashes soup, I didn’t like this mouthfeel. Hops totally dominate this black IPA, the bitterness sensation is very high and razor sharp. Because of the high roastiness level there’s also a strong dryness sensation that joins the bitterness. There also something soapy in the finish and after-taste. Very tasty for sure but just not my style of Black IPA. And by the way, someone needs to teach the Russians about the much safer regular Roulette game.

Bottle at Bishops Arms, Folkungagatan, October 2012. Black with a large, fluffy white head. This Black IPA was dominated by the hops. But there were also roasted malt, grape and licorice. Really bitter.

50cl bottle from Hopduvel, BB 2014. Brune foncée presque noire, col épais crémeux collant au verre, café au lait presque moka. Arôme malté, houblonné frais et fruité tropical et aiguille pin, cône frais, mais avec ce profile prenant de malt grillé/torréfié. Palais est réchauffant même pour 7%, note café/grillé, avec une côté épais de houblon laissant une fine de bouche sèche, résineux, épineux de houblons, herbacé sur un fini épicé. Houblon fruité avec des notes agrumes, mais aussi kiwi frais le tout se mélangeant avec un malté grillé/café, moka qui accompagne le tout pour une balance agréable des houblons et malts.

Pours a deep brown/black colour with a frothy dark beige head. Citrus hopy aroma, with hints of licorice, roasty malt and some chocolate. Malty flvour with medium bitterness and notes og grapefruit or orange zest. Yet refreshing. full body, oily feel, soft carbonation and beautiful lingering long bitter finish. Nice.

Bottle. Pours black with a thick beige that sticks around. Nice aroma, pine, grapefruit and coffee. Taste has similar flavours but perhaps is less hoppy and the rich roasty malt comes through harder. Medium body with a long very bitter finish that I quite like, sticks around for ages. Very nice

Bottle. Pours black with tan brown head. Nose/taste of roasted chocolate malt, pine, chalky malt, resin, coffee roast and toasted black malt. Finishes chalky resin with toasted malt. Very dry resin. Medium body.