Pot Kettle Black
Yeastie Boys in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.15
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Our flagship beer, and biggest seller, Pot Kettle Black is one of New Zealand’s most widely awarded beers. PKB, as it is affectionately known, is a juxtaposition of beer styles: fresh and hoppy, yet as dark as night and malty rich. The black beer that has converted many a person who’d formerly professed a fear of dark ales… and called a "real foodie beer" by every chef we meet!
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The aroma has an intoxicating blend of chocolate, coffee, cherry, spice and even a little brine. The first taste is brilliant as the palate comes across all creamy until it suddenly dissipates alarmingly. The chocolate malt gives way to citrus and salty brine. Bit of an odd one that reminds me of the Bellarine Mussel Stout.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2013
at 00:50
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
30.01.2015, 0,33l bottle @ home:
Small light brown creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly rich and roasted, licorice, coffee, dark malts, grass, roasted grain, burnt caramel, pine needles, , minerals, rubber. Taste is burnt and watery, ashtray, burnt grain, paper, burnt coffee, grass, weeds, hints of licorice. Medium bitterness, dry burnt and watery mouthfeel. Fair enough.
22.06.2013, 0,35l bottle sampled @ The Festival Portland Maine:
4-4-5-2-7=2,2
Small shortlasting head. Aroma is unripe banana, dark malts, grass, dark sugar, coffee, dark fruits. Taste is slightly sour-ish, dark malts, sour coffee, grass, bitter chocolate, sorrel, oak. Medium bitterness, dry mouthfeel, overcarbonated. Next!
Small light brown creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly rich and roasted, licorice, coffee, dark malts, grass, roasted grain, burnt caramel, pine needles, , minerals, rubber. Taste is burnt and watery, ashtray, burnt grain, paper, burnt coffee, grass, weeds, hints of licorice. Medium bitterness, dry burnt and watery mouthfeel. Fair enough.
22.06.2013, 0,35l bottle sampled @ The Festival Portland Maine:
4-4-5-2-7=2,2
Small shortlasting head. Aroma is unripe banana, dark malts, grass, dark sugar, coffee, dark fruits. Taste is slightly sour-ish, dark malts, sour coffee, grass, bitter chocolate, sorrel, oak. Medium bitterness, dry mouthfeel, overcarbonated. Next!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2013
at 05:08
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(Bottle) Opaque black with thin tan head. Fantastic and unusual aroma combining fresh fruity hop notes with richer notes of caramel, chocolate and almost smokiness. Medium body with nice carbonation giving velvety feel. Great and unusual flavour showing again a mix of styles which works pretty well. The start is rich dark roast malts with dark chocolate notes and this gives way to the thinner somewhat sharper flavours of a porter, out of which develops a refreshing hoppy bitterness which combines with dark roast malt bitter coffee notes for a long pleasant finish. An unusual beer that works very well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2013
at 04:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Moderate malty and hoppy nice aroma. Heavy bitter wonderfull flavor. Strong chocolate notes. Long moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2013
at 09:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330ml bottle [Thanx David]. Pitch black colour with average, frothy, lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Intense chocolate aroma with a plethora of yeast flavours. Taste is dark malty with a mixture of chocolate notes, yeast, orange zest and juniper; more or less clean and explicit chocolate notes in the finish; lively carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Feb 2013
at 12:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
4th March 2012
Opaque black - brown beer. Tidy pale tan head. Smooth semi dry palate, a little fine carbonation. Mild dark malt with a trace of roast. Trace of lactose cream. Mild hop bitterness. Semi dry finish. Drinkable mild black ale.
Opaque black - brown beer. Tidy pale tan head. Smooth semi dry palate, a little fine carbonation. Mild dark malt with a trace of roast. Trace of lactose cream. Mild hop bitterness. Semi dry finish. Drinkable mild black ale.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2013
at 08:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours deep amber with a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up sweet malt infused plums and then roasted malts, toasted bread and a grainy malt quality. The taste is pretty darn sweet with malts and molasses and then moving into roasted malts and toasted breadiness. All in all a tasty offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2012
at 18:13