Single Hop Series Vic Secret
Eight Degrees Brewing in Mitchelstown, Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.99
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Malt: Irish pale malt, Carafa III
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at the Cotteridge Convention thanks to Steve. It pours deep brown with a small beige head. The nose is sweet, cola cubes, caramel, citrus peel, candy, bubblegum, treacle and parma violets, The taste is bitter roast, earthy, burnt toast, wood, ash, citrus peel and charcoal with a very dry finish. Medium body and big foamy carbonation. A bit ashy. Very nice aroma to it. Decent CDA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
24th Jan 2015: shared bottle at the Cotteridge Wine meet. Black pour with a tanned head. The nose held some tropical fruitiness, the taste still fruity but more bitter in nature, especially in the finish. Traces of bitter dark chocolate in the flavour also: the beer grew on me after a shaky start.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle split at the Cotteridge Convention, thanks to Steve BIK, 24/01/14. Dark mahogany brown with a decent beige covering. Nose is pine, toffee, red berry fruits, earthy hops. Taste comprises pine, liqourice, earthy hop notes, spice, light charr, red berry linger. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent CDA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle share. Cotteridge Beano. Clear, cola colour. Bubbly, tan head. Burnt bitterness. Big chocolate bitterness. Taste is bitter. Notes inexplicably disappear. Recall enjoying this one, mind.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is dry cocoa and tropical fruit. Taste has cocoa to start with a tropical fruit finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Cotteridge wine convention; dark brown pour with a foamy tan head, grapefruit and pine aroma, taste has tropical fruit, pine, roasted malts, chocolate, bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330mL bottle. BIPA are quickly becoming a crowded room, some tough competition out there. I like the use of the single hop in IPA’s or PA’s to highlight the aroma, bittering, and flavour profile of a strain, but with a BIPA it might be a little underpowered to combat the solid malt arsenal. The vic secret variety isn’t all that well known, so nice to get an idea of the tropical fruit aroma and flavour. Funny enough, its the roasted "porter" side of this one that fails, maybe it should have been an IPA rather than a BIPA in the end. Not enough dark malt balance here. Still a nice beer though