Battle Royale 2025 - 08/12 Black Hops
Kompaan in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Series|
Score
6.87
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This one’s stealthy, punchy, and built for flavor ops.
Black Hops is a covert strike of bitter roast and vibrant hops—unfolding in layers of pine, citrus, and berry. Behind its dark disguise hides a hop-loaded IPA bursting with Mosaic, Simcoe, and the experimental HBC630. These three combine for waves of blueberry, grapefruit, tropical fruit, and soft berry candy notes.
The malt base brings smooth bitterness, a touch of chocolate, and just enough roasted edge to keep things shadowy—but never heavy. It’s bold, clean, and dangerously precise.
This isn’t just a Black IPA. This is a black-ops mission in a can.
Black Hops is a covert strike of bitter roast and vibrant hops—unfolding in layers of pine, citrus, and berry. Behind its dark disguise hides a hop-loaded IPA bursting with Mosaic, Simcoe, and the experimental HBC630. These three combine for waves of blueberry, grapefruit, tropical fruit, and soft berry candy notes.
The malt base brings smooth bitterness, a touch of chocolate, and just enough roasted edge to keep things shadowy—but never heavy. It’s bold, clean, and dangerously precise.
This isn’t just a Black IPA. This is a black-ops mission in a can.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
27 December 2025. Van Hoefs Christmas tasting - cheers to all! Can from Mr. Hop.
A: hazy black, stable, foamy, beige head.
A: dried orange peel, pink grapefruit, blood orange, blueberry, pine.
T: sweetish mango & orange, bitter fondant, pine, coffee.
F: earthy hops, grapefruit peel, touch coffee bean.
P: medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation.
Very well balanced.
A: hazy black, stable, foamy, beige head.
A: dried orange peel, pink grapefruit, blood orange, blueberry, pine.
T: sweetish mango & orange, bitter fondant, pine, coffee.
F: earthy hops, grapefruit peel, touch coffee bean.
P: medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation.
Very well balanced.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2025
at 15:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can at home. Very dark brown with big tan head. Lots of roasted malts, nutty, dark chocolate, lime zest, grassy, floral, grapefruit juice, plums. Medium sweet and bitter, light sour. Medium bodoed, bit astringent finish. Nice.
Tried
from Can
from
J.P. Alsem
on 12 Sep 2025
at 19:22