B Side: Black IPA
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.05
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Take our 10HL pilot kit. It is the place our brewers let those imaginations fly and lay down unpredictable, creative tracks. Our brew team use it to dial in our small-scale experimental brews, each then finding its way to our bars as a draught-only special release.
However, we felt the naming convention used previously – Pilot Brew XXX – didn't fully reflected the ingenuity displayed by our brewers. To depict this a little better we now release each pilot brew as a bona fide B-Side; alongside our production-batch launches that take place at our bars, you’ll be able to discover a flip side in the form of one of our B-Side releases.
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jerseyislandbeer (5899) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 8 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Old rating from 27-11-16 - As Prototype Black IPA, 330ml bottle, it pours a near black colour with a small foamy beige head. Aromas of chocolate & fruits. Taste is light sweet, fruits, chocolate, roasted nut & Simcoe hops. Medium body, Aftertaste is a medium bitterness.
Bierkoning (17699) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap @ Beer Temple. Deep dark brown color. Caramel and hints of licorice and roast in the aroma. Roastbitter citric flavor. Some tart notes. Roasty finish. Nice.
TedE (2767) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330 ml bottle into glass. 12 months past BBF date. Very dark red/brown beer with foamy tan-coloured head. Nose is citric fruit and caramel. Good body, smooth texture. Full of malty goodness with hints of bitterness in the finish. Very nice sessioner.
DavrosIX (1291) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
2016 catch up - Bottle at home as the Prototype - A very good black IPA. Nice malt and a great kick of hops, alongside a great mouthfeel. Would happily drink this again and again and again
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From a 330ml bottle on 22/11/2016 (labelled Prototype Black IPA). Pours a very dark brown with little in the way of head. The nose is quite pleasant - primarily fruity hops. Taste wise, it has some mild roastiness, a good dash of sweet stone fruit, and a moderate hop bitterness at the back. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Decent enough but unremarkable.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 330 ml, courtesy of Miro B. Shared with JFK10000. Pours black, medium beige head. Roasted malty, citrus hoppy, pine, cocoa, sweet with bitter finish. Smooth, Medium bodied. Nice one.
Travlr (30173) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draft. Dark clear maroon color, tan head. Aroma of burnt toast. Taste is soft roast. OK.
ShivanDragon (10851) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Sample from tap at ’BeerTemple’ during Carnivale Brettanomyces 2016 dark bown to black (cola like) with a kaki head. Aroma of laurel, soft, roasted malts, liquorice, pine. Taste of laurel, soft, roasted and burnt malts, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, thin texture, medium body --- Beer merged from original tick of B-Side Black IPA on 24 May 2018 at 15:06 - Score: 7
Alengrin (11609) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
At BeerTemple in Amsterdam, from tap. Thick, creamy, lacing, off-white head, black robe with burgundy edges. Aroma of wet leather, black olive, hazelnut, black pepper, withered garden herbs, parsley, coffee grounds. Cured meat-like umami onset with a subdued dried fig sweetness inside, quite sharpish carbo, nutty and caramelly malt body turning roasted bitter in the end, meeting with herbal and lightly grapefruity, aromatic hop bitterness, drying but still ending juicy. Very nice, but could have been more complex and a tad more aromatically hoppy perhaps.
77ships (14506) reviewed B Side: Black IPA from BrewDog 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
THANKS for sharing RB people! Sampled draft @ Beer Temple during Carnivale Brettanomyces 2016! Black, red hue. Nose is big cacao, roast, herbal, cacao, coffee grounds. Taste is mildly herbal, licorice, milk chocolate, quite bitter in a herbal, tad vegetable way, milky. Milky, low roast body. Decent, tad too herbal, tad vegetable, tad too milky with a tad unfitting licorice. This isn’t perfect, it’s a bit messy but it’s a decent beer. Not stellar but decent and enjoyable for sure.