The roast and hops are perfectly balanced. The base beer could use a slightly cleaner ferment. Along with some liquid yeast. Brouwbar gent

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

26/05/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck. Black colour, small tanned head. Nose is roast, lots of fruits. Taste is roast, chocolate, lots of fruits, bitterhops, sometimes a bit ashy, nice bittterhops ending. Damn, one of their nicest for me

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

3 May 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Cheers to Pieter & Anke's birthday! Pours hazy black with a lasting, slowly thinning, foamy, beige head; lots of lacing. Aroma of toast, walnut, fondant, biscuit, chicory, pink grapefruit, orange peel, pine resin. Taste is light malty sweet, subtle fig & chocolate, quite nutty though, supporting hoppy bitter tones of pine, orange peel & earth, toasty & biscuity malty accents. Dry, piney hoppy finish, lingering nutty malts, earthy, fondant & toast. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. The original BIPA taken to a higher level, but equally accessible in my opinion. 11 June 2020. Lots of toast, tobacco, dried fruit. Sourish fruit in the taste underneath a very toasty, earthy, almost umami profile. 30 June 2021. Tobacco again, prune, walnut, chestnut, GF juice, orange peel. Very bitter citrus peel, GF juice, bit toasty, bit nutty. Deeply earthy and resinous hoppy finish yet somewhat juicy. This BIPA keeps on giving.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Brouwbar in old Ghent is still very busy developing new beers - or, every now and then, improving their recipes, as is the case here: this is basically an elaboration on their BI07, but with different hops, more extensive dry-hopping and rye added to the mash. Tasted from tap at Brouwbar itself, obviously. Creamy, medium thick, pale yellowish beige, cobweb-lacing, stable head, black robe with thin, hazy mahogany edge. Aroma of pine resin, hard caramel candy, dry forest floor, nutmeg, dried grapefruit peel, toasted walnuts, unsugared black chocolate, fried oyster mushrooms, black olive. Clean onset - as usual with Brouwbar's beers - with a subdued, old raisin- and chestnut-tinged sweetishness, light black olive- and dried porcini-like umami accent, medium carbonated; slick and oily mouthfeel, very nut shell-like and hard caramelly maltiness with light spicy rye note and strong toasty bitterness blending with a leafy, black peppercorn-, lightly pine- and dried grapefruit peel-like hoppiness, leathery and long-stretched, yet still a bit on the soft and restrained side for the intended style (as is the case with BI07) so that the toasty maltiness remains the main flavour in the end. Drier, spicier and more bitter than the original, which I already liked as an accessible, clean, smooth 'introductory' BIPA, this is indeed an improvement of the first version and one I will certainly revisit next time I'm at Brouwbar. Well done Benjamin!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar BI21 Black IPA (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5

23/XII/18 - 33cl bottle from Brouwbar (Gent), shared with Bouvier @ home, BB: 6/XII/19 - (2018-2013)

Slightly cloudy dark brown beer, solid creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lovely, lots of dank hops, piny and resinous, lots of roast, bit spicy, peppery, little malty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft roast, very hoppy, lots of chocolate, bitter, slightly fruity, some citrus, nice! Aftertaste: bitter finish, quite some roast, malty, bitter, some grapefruit, resinous hops, some grapefruit, citrus, very nice! Liked this one much better than their first BIPA. For the most important part, the hop aroma is much stronger in this one.