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Birrificio Toccalmatto in Fidenza (PR), Emilia-Romagna, Italy 🇮🇹
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.39
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La Black Ipa per eccellenza di Birra Toccalmatto. Una birra in grande equilibrio tra l'amaro e l'aroma dei luppoli e il tostato dei malti scuri. Note di resina, liquirizia, frutta secca e caffè.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Creamy lightbrown excellent fully lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and hoppy aroma. Heavy btter wonderfull flavor. Loads of roast and hops. Long fantastic nice complex finish. Creamy palate. Wonderfull well-balanced beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2014
at 09:27
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Italian take on the new ’black IPA’ style, with Australian Galaxy hops. Very thick and creamy, beige, dense head, gushing; colour an inky black. Aroma of cold coffee, bitter chocolate, ashes, soy sauce, walnuts, sherry, minerals. Taste lightly sourish at first, only a very vague fruit sweetishness, strong carbonation as expected seen the gushing, deep bitter chocolatey and nutty maltiness, mouth-lining roasted bitterness, very coffee-like, as well as an assertive, peppery hops bitterness, long finish. In all, a very typical and well-made example of its style.
Tried
on 02 Aug 2014
at 07:10
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 75cl, at Melkebaren. It pours a big beige head over a very dark brown body. Some curtains. The aroma is lightly roasted, with a nice piney and fruity, faintly grassy hoppiness. Some Belgian style yeasty notes. It’s dry on the palate, with some malty sweetness. Pleasant carbonation level. Some licorice on the flavor, which is quite roasted, with a nice bitterness. Some dark chocolate and coffee, and some piney hops. Lasting bitter finish. Not your average Black IPA, but it’s nice anyway. Tasteful and moreish. 140727
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2014
at 06:04
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap @ Goodbeer Faucets, Shibuya. Pours pitch black with a small foam head - that is leaving a beautiful lacing on the glass. Aroma - first it feels like a bubble bath, sweet and candy-like, lively. Later roast malt profile emerges with some hop freshness. Taste is like a proper black IPA should have - it has a good balance of roast malt bitterness, bitter chocolate and molasses - balanced with fragrant hopped bitterness. Some pine needles and even a bit resiny. Nicely balanced and very well made. Great beer to sip, it took me an hour to finish a pint.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2014
at 09:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap at Port Street Beer House, Manchester. Dark brown. Thick, bubbly, tan head. Flora. Light herb. Leathery maltiness. Hint of black fruit. Taste is light cocoa dry. Light bitterness. Very nice, although a bit too much carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2014
at 08:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at The Jeffrey. Pours deep dark brown with big head that dissipates quickly. Nose is chocolate and slight sour milk in a good way. Rates of plums, licorice, chocolates, roasted malt. Creamy mouthfeel and light chalk after tastes. Pretty nice beer
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Mar 2014
at 16:17