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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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle drank at Hill Farmstead while waiting for the Harvest Festival VIP session to begin, Vermont. Pours rich black with a big, staying tan cream head. Dusty cocoa nose, light roast, wet dirt (i.e. mud...). Medium sweet flavor, lots of dirty roast, earthy bitterness, light ash, a bit of moderate dark chocolate. Medium bodied with fine, creamy carbonation. Medium sweet finish with dry roast, good ash, light baking cocoa, earth. A slow starter, but quite robust and nuanced by the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2012
at 11:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle sample at a tasting at Dancing Camel. Thanks troubles. Dark brown, almost black. Roasty aroma with some cocoa, coffee notes and some citric hops. Bittersweet roasty flavor with a bit of chocolate and a bitter finish with roastiness and some hops. Medium-bodied. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2012
at 12:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 330ml.Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120623]
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2012
at 23:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. A dark brown one, clear, and with a dark beige head. Roasted, chocolatey aroma with some coffee and sweetish notes. Caramel hints. Full-bodied, soft and semi-sweet. Chocolate, coffee, caramel and roasted malts in the flavor, along with a pleasant hoppy bitterness. Lasting roasted, caramel finish with a decent bitterness. A tasteful and moreish beer I’d like to have again. 120623
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2012
at 14:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and caramel. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, liquorice, little sweet, hops, pine, grapefruit and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2012
at 14:12
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Blackish beer with a tan head. Light roast and l;ight chocolate aroma with light grapefruit. Light roast and light coffee flavlor with light chocolate and light grapefruit. Medium bodied. Roast and light chocolae lingers with grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2012
at 11:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Wine & Cheese in Clayton, MO. Pours very dark brown with a 4 finger creamy tan head. Aroma is chocolate and burnt malt. Hop? Maybe. Near full bodied. Flavor is chocolate and burnt malt with some floral and citrus hop. It’s very smooth and rich. Reasonably bitter. Finishes sweet chocolate, but bitter. Just noticed that the head has accomplished some incredible ring lacing. Very pleasant. Burnt malt stout aspects, but fresh and hoppy like an IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2012
at 21:52