8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draught at Khyber: pours black with beige head. Aroma is slightly earthy and herbal with ample coffee notes. Definitely hoppy coming through. Light licorice notes. Taste is lightly bitter. Fairly dry. Like a high quality pour over coffee almost with hops added. Delicate and thought out.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught via brouwerij lane. Deep mahogany pour. White head. Earthy yeasty smell. Light coffe taste and roasted malts. Excellent

8

02/25/19, super interesting toasted malt but also hoppy thing, nose and flavor both super unique (and I've had my share of black ipas). Fresh black IPA is new to me probably though. Tasty oddity. Some conforming to be done

8.4

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

11.10.2014, tap @ Mikkeller Bar:
Nice light brown slightly fizzy-creamy longlasting head. Aroma is fresh roasted, pine needles, roasted coffee, fresh hops, licorice, moss, roasted grain, grass, burnt caramel. Taste is dry roasted, bark, pine needles, roasted grain, roasted coffee, hay, paper, burnt caramel, grass, resiny hops. Longlasting bitterness, dry mouthfeel. Nice.

8.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Hill Farmstead’s take on the waning black IPA style, from a can at Struise Shop during pre-Zwanze tasting. Pale greyish white, cobweb-lacing, moussy, gradually thinning head, very dark brown-bronze robe, blackish in general looks, misty. Aroma of walnut shells, cedar essential oil, herb cheese, grapefruit peel, toasted brown bread, pine resin, unsugared chocolate, thyme, blood orange juice. Sweetish and dimly sourish inset, fig and blackberry notes, softish carb, slick and oily hazelnutty body, brown bread crust- and eventually toasted black maltiness – but before descending into the coffeeish roastedness that would have turned this into a stout, it takes a turn towards piney, resinous, grapefruity, New World hoppiness of the old school kind, rooty and firm, with black olive- and caramel-like aspects in its trail. Long bitter finish, but traces of underlying malt sweetness remain too. Very elegant, exemplary, but accessible Cascadian dark ale – I personally don’t mind an even rootier bitterness and more piney character to the hops, but there is no denying that this is exceptionally well brewed, as is to be expected from a brewery with this name and fame.

8.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a deep brown-black, with mid-sized, lasting cap of head. Aroma has chocolate, nuts, roasted grain, some pine/citrus hops. Flavor is roasty, chocolate, nutty, citrusy, and with some pine/spruce hops in the finish. A really nice black IPA.

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at Jeffrey’s, New York. Colour is almost black with small slightly brownish white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, citrus, grape, some pine, hops and malts. Very fresh black IPA.

7.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at Armsby, 1/30/16.
Another technically flawless beer from Hill. Appearance is perfect, the aromatics are all quite on-point, with coffee, various other roasted notes, earthiness, vanilla and some pine and citrus with a bit of juiciness breaking up the intensity.
Assertive in the mouth, it comes off as even more than 6.8% with a strong roasted element adding a ton of bitterness, especially in concert with the citric/piney hops. Perfect texture, with just a touch of slickness from the roasted barley and the same charming, rustic, fresh house yeast character we’ve all come to know and love from HF’s beers. Attenuation is good, of course and there’s still a ton of maltiness left to provide texture. Uncompromisingly bitter, roasty and hoppy through and through. Much too much for me, and I didn’t care for the beer one bit, but I’m sure this is exactly what most stout/hop heads want from this type of beer.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Blackback Pub.
They poured it into a tulip, yeah well.
The appearance was a dark brown to black color with a thin off white foamy little head that quickly dissipated. Lacing was few and far between (barely there).
The smell started off with grassy bitter and hop indulgent citrusy notes rolling into a light bitter cocoa and coffee bean, it’s good.
The taste was mainly the same with the bitterness really taking the lead and amplifying the dryness rolling into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium in body with a nice sipping to almost sessionable sort of feel to it. Carbonation feels good allowing the bitterness hitting my tongue appropriately.
Overall, Black IPA, well, it works, but it’s not the best one of the market, better ones. Nice to try but I’d seek other Black IPA’s before this, just saying.