3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle/12oz - Pours a dark black/brown in color with a medium tan head that settled to a thin covering over the beer. Some minor lacing on the glass. Aroma is a mixture of dark roasted malts... very stout-like... and plenty of citrus hops. Flavor is "interesting"... roasted malts and hops as expected, but also some funkiness that I did not expect... sort of "mild barnyard" in the aftertaste. Not a flavor I expected from this type of beer and it is a detractor for an otherwise really good beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Black pour with a copious tan frothy head. The nose is piney and resinous with lots of grapefruit and orange citrus notes. A roasty caramel malt also comes through. The flavor holds caramel and dough with a backbone of citrus hop. Floral, herbaceous, and piney. The palate is medium bodied with fine bubbled carbonation and a resinous sticky finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
12 oz bottle. Pours black with a creamy tan head, nice lacing. Rich nose of roast, coffee, hops. Full body, soft, creamy, nice touch of carbonation. Taste is roasty and coffee with the piny hops coming through on the finish. Somewhat bitter but the roast takes the front seat, reminiscent of baker’s chocolate. Far exceeded my expectations- good stuff.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours very deep reddish brown with a medium light brown head that leaves a sheet of brown lacing. Aromas of funky papaya, roasty cocoa, coffee, and a little pine. Flavor is roasted coffee, a little sour cocoa, raisin, and chocolate malt. A little bitter cocoa in the finish. Medium carbonation and body, with a dry finish. This was quite nice; pleasantly bitter and roasty, and pretty tasty.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz bottle. Pours a dark cola with a small cream colored head. Aroma of pine, hints of evergreen, sweet dark malt, and roasted notes. Taste of pine tar, sweet dark malt, roasted notes and hops. Dry finish.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
caramel, floral, citrus, black, green-tinged head from hops, medium sweetness, very bitter, medium body, bitter. I like this beer very much, but must admit that I prefer the original recipe for Alpine Ale by a pretty wide margin.... Im new to this style (black IPA), aside from VT Pub & Brewerys "Blackwatch" (which is fantastic), but to me it mostly seems like a standard yet high quality IPA with a very dark color.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz. Bottle: Aroma of hops, pine, citrus, evergreen, slight dark malt, and fresh hops. Poured very dark brown in color with a small, creamy, dense, tan head that lasted throughout. Hazy. Sparkling. Excellent lacing. Flavor is slightly sweet and medium bitter. Tastes of dark malt, pine, hops, slight citrus, and slight roasting. Medium body. Lightly tingly, then lightly dry texture. Average to slightly lively carbonation. Roasted dark malt, hops, pine finish is slightly sweet and medium bitter. Surprisingly impressed.
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