3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Black with minimal head. Big boozy aroma and taste. Malt comes off thick black and rubbery. Hoppy black dubbel more than IPA. Too boozy and muddled.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Garnet color with a tan head. Mostly sweet malty aromas of black malts and multigrain toast. Medium body. Typical strong ale flavors of pit fruits, black roasted malts, and bittering hops.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
22oz bottle. almost black under a small, frothy beige head. hoppy aroma but lots of tarry, tobacco notes and red fruits. the flavor is bitter and hoppy with the black malt in good contention. not super roasty but more of an ashy flavor to this one. tobacco finish. medium body with moderate carbonation.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
An OK black IPA. Aroma was the best thing about this beer. Strong malty presence with coffee, grains and dark roast. Pour was a deep dark brown with a one finger off white head. Taste was mostly malt. Dark roasted malt and chocolate fill the mouth first. Very thick mouth feel. Bitterness never really kicks in. The finish is very quick and leaves behind some hints of hops, but not what the style (or the commercial description) leads you to believe. Light medium carbonation.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
22 oz bottle that I was excited to find at EZ Liquors since I didn’t even know this one was released yet. Pours a deep dark brwon lifeless body sitting underneath a frothy foamy off white head. Aroma is hops, citrus, metallic notes, mint and some rotting oranges. Flavor starts off with lots of hops then it goes flat in the middle with flavors of stale tobbacco and finishes with some bad chocolate pudding aftertaste. I was hoping for a Stone XI clone but instead got a beer that was barely drinkable. Meh......yuck.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Deep dark cola colored pour with a quickly fading khaki head. Mix of malty and hop aromas: molasses, caramel toffee, hint of chocolate with pine and citrus hop notes. Flavor has an initial surge of maltiness (chocolate, coffee, toffee) quickly joined by a tingly acidity and a sharp bitterness that lingers along with a lingering sweetness as well. Lasting astringency and alcohol warming. Tingly almost tongue burning mouthfeel. Interesting beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
22oz bomber, served in a snifter. This poured a dark cola brown with a ton of ruby highlights and a flimsy head of tan foam. Light lacing. The aroma had mild roast, caramel, and some faint citrus. I thought this was supposed to be hoppy? The flavor contained more of the hop profile that I was expecting. Mild roast and chocolate were followed by bitter oranges and grapefruit. The mouthfeel was full-bodied and had minimal carbonation. Slightly sticky. Not bad, but I just couldn’t get into it...pretty boring actually. Seeing the commercial description, this is definately more of an Imperial Brown than a Black IPA.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
@ Basunen: Inte mycke humle kvar men tydlig tjock och lite mjölkig doft. Smaken är fyllig med tydliga brända toner. Annars händer det inte mycket mer.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Very dark almost opaque but not quite. Enticing looking but lacks any notable chatacter. Smells slightly sweet, medicinal, roasty, and not particularly hoppy. Tastes sweet dark fruitm notes of chocolate, wood a little smoke, toasty malt, and very burnt bitter. Lingers dry and bitter with a woody texture. Hides the alcohol well. Drinkable.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Nice and malty. Reminds me of an ale version of Scwarzbier- (Read: seriously lacks hops.) Dark brown in color. Simpler tone. One taster said it was like a watered down Guinness.
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