Fleurac Octo-Pyroclastic Black IPA

Brewed by Fleurac
Style: Black IPA
Ydes, France

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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19/I/13 -33cl bottle @ RBBWG 2013 - BB: n/a (2013-60) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!

Clear brown beer, no head. Aroma: caramel, sugary, boozy, mocha, some chocolate. MF: no carbon, medium body, oily texture. Taste: caramel, citric sourness, bitter chocolate, bit hoppy, sugary. Aftertaste: alcohol, nail polish remover, bitter, bit chemical, bitter hops. Pretty bad. And not an ipa. And not a black ipa either. I would describe it as attention whoring. :p

Clear black colour, no head. Malty aroma, caramel, lots of alcohol. Alcoholic flavour, liquorice, quite sweet, roasted malts, bitter notes. Finish liquorice, roasted malts, hops and alcohol.
(From 75cL bottle @ RBBWG II, Wilrijk 2013. Courtesy of 77ships. Thanks Eugene!)

Bottle courtesy of 77ships, thank you! Clear maroon color, flat. Aroma of licorice, tar, black pepper. Taste is pure alcohol, along the lines of Mikkeller Black.

33cl bottle sample @ RBBWG 2013, courtesy of 77ships. Brune foncée, avec pas de col. Bière atypique, qui ne veut pas dire grand chose si je me base sur mon expérience, hasardeuse, des bières Fleurac. Je m’attendais au pire, et donc au final, je retrouve une bière sympa à déguster. Le tout est assez plat avec un alcool qui est en évidence mais sans pour cela gâcher le tout (à la Brewdog); ce qui ne veut pas non plus dire que on est devant une perle. Notes subtiles de malt chocolaté, caramel et une fine amertume houblonnée venant juste en retrait. J’aimerai revoir la même version mais avec un alcool plus digne d’une Black IPA, soit 7-8%. Reste agréable en petite quantité.

Sampled from bottle @ RBBWG 2013. Black color, small light brown head. Smell malts, lightly roasted malts, lots of alcohol and liquor. Taste has malts but mainly alcohol. Really strong and over the top. Besides the alcohol there’s not much there. So, bad attempt at a black IPA if that was intended, not a very good attempt at a high ABV-beer, but it could be a start to a better, if not a good strong beer. Some work to do though.

Botella, takk fyri Don yespr. Black colour. Pleasant sweet aroma of roasty malt, some chocolate and (dark) fruit along with alcohol. Flavour is sweet allright, has a good roasty maltiness with chocolate, dark fruits and alcohol along with wood in the roasty sweet finish. Really nice.

Bottle at yespr. Black coloured with a small off-white head. Sweet and roasted aroma of caramel, hops and grass with notes of soy sauce. Sweet and roasted flavour of caramel, soy sauce, dark chocolate, hops and alcohol. Sweet and roasted finish.

Bottled. A pitch black beer with lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of alcohol and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, chocolate, coffee, and roasted malt, leading to a dry finish.

shared by yespr. pitch dark, no head. roasted malts, strong alc. flavor, sweet notes, sweet roasted malts power aroma. flavor is roasted malts, wood, complex. pretty nice.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours an opaque black - perhaps a vague tint of orange - and a tiny, tiny rough off-white head. Sweet whisky aroma - quite enjoyable. Medium body only, roast and minerals. Completely flat. Boozy, perfumy, sweet whisky accents. Ends very, very hot. I somehow doubt that Fleurac manages ice-distilling. Booze added? 071112