Kinn Løkka Svarthumle

Brewed by Kinn Bryggeri
Style: Black IPA
Florø, Norway

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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330 ml on tap @ "Grunerløkka Brygghus". May 08, 2013 Beer from a tulip glass Black in color with a brown head. Aroma is coffee,chocolate,roasted malt and some hop. Easy drinkable beer with a short bitter finish Maybe a bit to thin,but still a nice beer.

On tap @ Grunerløkka Bryggens. This is a deep dark brown one - near black in color with a small spotty brown top. Not extreme on the aroma but I get a dark malty sweetness, soft roasted malts and a trace of coffee and chocolate paper. It has a mild oily mouthfeel and a soft to average carbonation level. The first thing I notice is how light drinkable this is. Feels really balanced with a nice hoppy flavor all the way. Not to roasted, but it’s noticeable. Don’t know what more I can say really. A scary light drinkable one, and it’s really good as well! 02.03.2013

Sample @ SMÖF 2012. Pours hazy very dark brown, almost black, with a small brownish beige head that is rather quick to dissipate while leaving lots of trace on the glass. Smell is tiny sweet and slightly salty with roasted malts, ammonium chloride, grapefruit juice, freshly cut grass, pine, orange peal, dried apricots and dark roast coffee. Taste is bitter and tiny salty with grapefruit juice, salty liquorice candy, burnt wood, pine, freshly cut grass, dark roast coffee, orange peal, lemon zest, roasted malts and dark bread. Mouthfeel is round, tiny astringent and medium bodied. Finish is bitter with grapefruit rinds, salty liquoriuce candy, orange peal, grass, pine, dark bread and roasted malts. Nice, especially considering the saltiness...

Draught. Pours pitch black, with a huge beige head, that settles slowly. Hoppy, sprucey aroma, roasted malt, resin, grapefruit, chocolate, ashes. Dry, medium to full bodied, high bitterness, creamy CO2. Hoppy, herbal taste, roasted malt, grapefruit peel, spruce, ashes. Very smooth and quite complex. A very nice new aquaintance. (2012-10-26)

SMÖF 2012. Dark brown beer with a lasting brownish head. Hoppy aroma, floral, grass, chocolate, roasted, cocoa powder, licorice notes. Hoppy roasted flavor, metal, cocoa, caramel, earthy, chocolate, grass, fruity notes.

Draught at SMÖF 2012. Dark brown, medium beige head. Piney and citric hop aroma with some soft roasted coffee. Medium bodied, medium carbonation. Semi dry, medium bitterness.

Black with an off white head - aroma of some roasted malt and hop - good malt body with some roasted malt notes, good hop bitterness - hop bitterness in the finish - this was good

On tap at Haandfestival 2012. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is coffee, hop, pine, grapefruit, roasted malt, licorice. Flavour is coffee, hop, pine, grapefruit, roasted malt, licorice, chocolate. Full body. Nice beer.

On tap at HaandFestival 2012. Looking gorgeous this one, with its black body, and dense, finger-thick off-white to beige head. It’s lightly roasted on the nose, there’s a touch of licorice, and a pleasant hoppyness, citrus peel and pine cones. The flavor has a nice bitterness to deal with the roasted malts, and there’s citrus peel, pine cones and some faint licorice as well. Dry, full-bodied and pleasantly carbonated, finishing roasted and bitter. A tasteful, balanced, dry and really pleasant beer. 120504

Tap at Grünerløkka Brygghus. Black body, small light head. Aroma is roasty with chocolate and citrus hops. Taste is less roasty than aroma, with more intense hops, and a good bitterness.