Black IPA
Hopcraft Brewing in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales 🏴
Collab with: The Waen Brewery / Hopcraft BrewingIPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.18
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Plasterers Arns - Norwich. Pours deep brown with a dense, lasting beige cream head. Toasty pine in the nose, mellow cocoa, notes of grapefruit and orange. Medium sweet flavor with further rindy citrus, orange and grapefruit, moderate roast, some baking cocoa, scorched earth. Medium bodied with average carbonation and massaging carbonation. Lightly resinous not the finish, with bitter orange rind, pithy grapefruit, baking cocoa, scorched earth, ashy roast. A good all-around CDA.
Tried
on 17 Nov 2015
at 11:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at 2015 Birmingham Beer Festival; dark chestnut brown pour with a bubbly tan head, aroma has sharp citrus, pine and chocolate, taste has resinous, sharp citrus and chocolate, bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Oct 2015
at 07:26
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
500ml bottle from Stori Beer & Wine, Bala. Pours black with minimal bubbly head, almost completely flat sadly. Rotten leafy veg aroma. Taste is slightly watery with deflated roast in a ’left-on-the-windowsill-overnight’ kinda way. Sorry something really didn’t go right with the bottling. Drain-pour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2015
at 13:53