Dark Penance
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.47
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A heavy malt foundation includes Crystal malt for sweetness and just enough Midnight Wheat malt to push the color to black. The bitterness is huge, but balanced by malt sweetness and alcohol burn. The hop flavors and aromas range from citrus to floral to pine thanks to a delicious blend of hand-selected Chinook and Centennial hops.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Pours black with an off white and quickly dissipating head. Aroma is very chocolaty, light malt and roasting. High bitterness, but balanced with a subtle milk chocolate sweetness. Texture is thick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2016
at 11:54
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Creamy off-white excellent fully lasting head. Dark red amber colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter fantastic roasted hoppy flavor. Long great heavy bitter finish. Creamy palate. World class.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2016
at 06:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at J’s. Pours a deep black with very little foam. Hoppy nose with coffee and roasted malt. Clean on the palate with good roasty character. Big bitter, herbal finish. Lots of green in this one. Solid. --- Beer merged from original tick of Dark Penance on 02 Nov 2016 at 19:49 - Score: 7. Original review text: Toasty coffee, cacao. Big hoppy finish. Nice!
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2016
at 23:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 355ml @ home
Pours dark hazy brown with a tan head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, citrus, pine needles, grapefruit and hint of alcohol. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long slightly warm, malty, caramel, citrus, grapefruit, piney and hint of chocolate finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours dark hazy brown with a tan head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, citrus, pine needles, grapefruit and hint of alcohol. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long slightly warm, malty, caramel, citrus, grapefruit, piney and hint of chocolate finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2016
at 13:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Black color. Aroma is very good: fruit, honeydew, citrus, caramel. Taste: caramel, fruit, good hop bitterness. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2016
at 05:13
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught at KØ16. Quite fruity aroma. Very dark brown colour, seems slightly hazy. Small tan head. The flavour starts off with a distinct grassy and piney hop note. Then comes a good fruity malt note, red berries and a quite high bitterness.
Tried
on 25 May 2016
at 07:10
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Kihoshk, pre-CBC. Pine and citrus hops, dark and hoppy and a bit sticky, with some caramel, chocolate and a bit of cocoa thrown into the mix. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2016
at 04:25
6/10
Tried
on 13 May 2016
at 23:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Bine & Vine. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of pine and dark malt. Med body or so. Flavor is pine, dark malt and some mixed hop. It’s bitter, not much heat, and the malt is dark, but not sweet. Somehow anise has come to my mind. Probably the "feel", not the actuality. It’s a decent beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2016
at 22:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
hazy to cloudy dark brown , smooth brown head. aroma is dry roasted malty with a very potent but delicate bitter hoppy piny balance. flavor is roasted malts, licorice, hops, extremely well composed, you will not notice unless you try it out with other black ipa’s at the same time. one of the best black ipa i’ve ever had.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2016
at 19:54