Slip into Darkness
Gigantic Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Dark India Style Regular|
Score
7.20
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Appellation Wines tasting. Dark brown body with a medium beige head. Good lacing. Aroma of meaty malts, tea, salt and chlorine. Flavour of Marmite, beef jerky, barbecue and burnt malts. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. Very weird but I liked it.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at appellation. Pours deep brown, nose is sugary, toffee, smoky, taste is similar, quite bitter.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home .. dark brown ... thin tan lacing ... soft dark roast ... soft malt nose ... dark sweet roast ... soft toffee malt .. light thin chocolate roast
McCash (16021) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to jamestulloch. Appearance - dark brown to black and opaque. Fawn head. Nose - hung meat and general iron. Dry charcoal. Taste - charcoal and general dry smoke thing. Palate - mediumbodied then long lean and dry. Overall - singular personality.
allmyvinyl (21071) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Comely Bankers III. Pours dark brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of bitter herbs, coffee, roast. Taste is more of the same. Bitter finish.
crit200 (5324) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Brown,small tan head.Lightly roasted nose.Good roasty palate but citrus hops are too strong for this style
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
On tap at The Blackback Pub, Waterbury, VT.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a black color with a bar pour’s kind of slim white head that dissipated quickly. Light lacing here and there.
The smell had some roasty coffee. Light salt. Light sweet milk chocolate. Dried grass. Piney-ness.
The taste had a dried roasty to dried grassy piney sweetness. Light lager - like breadiness. Quick dry grassy aftertaste. Dry piney and salty finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. It’s a pretty dry and salty beer so I did find it hard to just drink so probably leans closer to a sipper.
Overall, I don’t think this is a Schwarzbier. None of the qualities other than the lager breadiness show up. I’m thinking Gigantic may have been shooting for the Cascadian Dark Lager (though not a true accepted style yet) style and adding the saltiness to do it their way. It wasn’t bad. Nice to try but probably not again.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Alibi Room. Medium brown. Pretty toffeeish, toasty nose. Bitter, toffee, light chocolate. Clean, bitter dark lager.
CLW (16859) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22 oz. bottle purchased at Spruce Creek Provisions, Kittery. Pitch black color, with huge lasting head fluffy retention that laces the glass. Aroma is assertive pine, light roasted grain, charred molasses/
Ok, so they want to market this as a Schwarzbier…. Everybody that has sampled this knows it’s a black IPA. Everything about this says it is a CDA / Black IPA. Schwarzbeir?? Yeaaaah, right, ok. Taste of chocolate malts with huge resinous pine with notes of citrus. Body is lighter with a soft carbonation and creamy mouthfeel over the palate. And yes the lasting bitterness once again says; “Black IPA”. I like it a lot but… Schwarbier? Nice marketing play.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Slip into Darkness from Gigantic Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Keg at Hand Beer bar Falmouth. It pours darkest brown, near black with a decent beige head. The nose is roasted malts, parma violets, bitter - sweet, orange peel, charcoal and plum skin. The taste is crisp, earthy roast, charcoal, dark fruits, blackberry jam, plum skin, orange peel, black pepper, light alcohol and ash with a dry, toasted finish. Medium body and moderate, prickly carbonation. A bit too spicy and charred. OK, but far from the best schwarz I’ve had.