Mozaic Black Bitter
La Brasserie du Mont Salève in Neydens, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 🇫🇷
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.97
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Complex nose, floral, fruity, coffee and cocoa. Dry with a balanced bitterness and a long finish.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Sights & Swills Summer Holiday Beer#81. PONTORSON. Perhaps a little more of the black IPA style than bitter here for this towards black in colour brew. It's not really 'bitter' at all and the hop imparts fruitiness in both aroma and taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2025
at 21:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, tropical fruits, some pine, hint of coffee, hops. Flavour is light sweet with a bitter finish. Body is a bit thin, however this is definitely a pleasant Black IPA. Remarkable, what they accomplished with the low ABV.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2025
at 05:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Very good, light-cream head with lace over faintly russet-lined black beer. Liquorice, lots of dry hops, quite a bit of ureum, black mushrooms and asafoetida. Ultra-dry, ashy flavour with a very light underlying malt sweetness, but finishing again light bitterish; dry and ashy. Light to medium bodied, bit slick, seems indeed ash-filled. Very dry black IPA - and good. 7/4/7/3/14
Tried
on 02 Jun 2018
at 21:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home, 16th September 17. Pours black, some head. Aroma is roasted malt, citrus and cocoa dust. Taste is impressive for the extreme low ABV, roasty, bitter citrus hops, good balance. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2017
at 01:37
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2017
at 22:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from eebira. Black colour with a light beige head. Aroma has roasted malt and fruity hops, taste light roasted malt, and sweet fruitiness. Medium body, low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2016
at 10:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, roasted, meaty, light pine, taste is sweet toffee, chewy, chocolate, ash.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2016
at 09:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from eebria shared with Stuu666. Pours clear dark brown with a thin off-white head. Aromas of light chocolate, faint roast. Taste is more of the same. Much more of a stout than a black ipa. Quite thin. Bitterness comes through at the end, finally.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2016
at 09:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home bought from a bottle shop in Lausanne Switzerland. Black / dark brown with reddy hues coloured pour with a big rocky light cream head. Aroma is initially pretty juicy tropical fruits, with melon and peach, with hints of singed pine and some dry roast, Flavour is composed of toasted nutty malts, dry roast, fruity peach melba, mango hop, little pine, dry roast finish with a little charred earth. Palate is a little bitty, dry, highish carbonation. Packs in good flavour for 3.5%. In fact i can scarcely believe it is 3.5%. Can we have a session BIPA category please?
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2016
at 17:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma of grassy hops, pine, roast, dark chocolate and coffee. Flavour is moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2015
at 14:53