Evil Twin Yin & Yang

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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At Copenhagen Beer Celebration. Dark brown with a lasting off-white head. Citrus hoppy aroma with chocolate and a touch of winegum. Sweet fruity flavour with lots of chocolate and lots of hops.

Bottle at Rabbit Club. Pours a dark color with off white head. Aroma of caramel, earthiness, and some grapefruit. Has a sweet caramel taste with hop spice and caramel after taste. Decent.

Draught at brouwerij Lane BK. Not quite opaque brown with great lace work. beautiful rich resin and funk hop with caramel and chocolate maltiness. Additional flavors of chocolate, dark fruit, licorice, slight vegetal. Finishes bitter chocolate and spicy hop. Sticky thick. My hop and stout fix in one beer No way!

33 cl bottle.
Pours pitch black color with a medium-sized, quickly dissipating head. Aroma of hops, dark fruits, caramel, liquorice, chocolate, mild tar and some vanilla and bourbon notes. Flavor of dark malts, bitter hoppy fruits, some caramel, hints of liquorice, some yeast, dark chocolate and vanilla. Smooth velvety and chocolaty palate with a mild bitter fruity kick. Quite nicely balanced brew.
4426
2x 33 cl bottle (home made mix).
Originally rated on 20111007. (8+4+7+3+16)
Pours black colour with small beige head. Aroma is hoppy fruits, sweet caramel malts, chocolate and light coffee. Flavour of berries, salmiac, caramel malts, light fruits andsalty licorice. Some harsh bitterness on the palate that wrecks the mix. A bit better than either of the parts but still lacks something vital.

Draught @ [ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2012 ] @ Spartas Lokaler, Faelledparken in Osterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Clear medium to dark black brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, chocolate, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, orange - citrus, light herbs - vegetable. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, licorice, dark fruit, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120511]

Draft at CBC ´12..... It pours clear black with a medium tan head..... The aroma is roasted malts, hops, caramel and licorice...... The flavor is roasted malt, hoppy, chocolate and again licorice..... nice....

Tap at the Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2012. Pours black-brown with a fine tan head. Quite a bit of dark, ripe fruits in the nose with mild chocolate and pine. Big sweet flavor with a hefty dose of booze and some licorice. yeah, some berries, too, as is often the case with black IPAs. Full bodied with average carbonation. Warm to finish with a bit more roast now, light pine and other resinous bitterness. A heavy-handed black IPA, but nice.

From bottle. BArk brown beer with a small beige head. Hoppy, chocolate, coffee, metallic and a bit fruiyt aroma. Hoppy, metallic, chocolate and a bit grassy flavour.

Originally rated on 20.6.2011, 2x330ml bottles from Bierkompass, mixed 50/50. Pours black with a nice foamy head. Aroma has hints of roasted malts, espresso and fruits. Unbelievably tasty, starts out with a nice roasted taste and finishes with a taste of sweet and exotic fruits with some roastiness. Complex, extremely well balanced. Finally a Black IPA done right. Wow, definitely one of the best brews I’ve tasted in a while. 9-4-9-5-17 = 4.4

Re-rated on 27.6.2012, the official Yin & Yang bottle from Bierkompass

Pours pitch black with a large foamy head. Aroma of roasted malts, some fruits, coffee and chocolate. Taste starts out slightly roasty and fruity with notes of bitter hops, very salty licorice and chocolate. Finish is roasty and bitter with some fruitiness and vanilla coffee notes. Hints of some off-flavors. Not as good as the two separate bottles mixed together. Feels like this has a bit too much of the imperial stout pushing through. Still very tasty, though.

Draught @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2012
Pours dark brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, chocolate, citrus and grape. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long bitter, roasty, boozy finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.