Draft sample @ Kongsberg Bryggeri. Brune foncée, col fin café au lait. Arôme au nez plaisant, grillé, touche de fumée voire de réglisse. Palais est léger petite note fumée, avec un agréable café/toasté, le tout reste assez British dans l’approche et ponctué par une petite note épicée. Fini sec, grillé avec une amertume anglaise; EKG, note aussi une chocolaté amer avec une touche de cendre.

Draught @ Patricks Pub og Restaurant, Kristiansand
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, coffee, ash and licorice. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long roasted, chocolate, caramel, licorice, coffee and ash finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Extremely boring black ipa but decent stout.

A really nice brew. Lovely stout in my opinion. I was also drinking a full bodied double IPA at the same time. That is maybe the reason why I felt this lacked a lot to be named a Black IPA. Probably wrong listing.
Nice black body with a fine beige top. Coffee, roasted and mild fruity aroma. Ok intensity. Medium (+) body and a soft carbonation. Quite dry ending on this one. Roasted, chocolate, fruity and some hoppy notes in the flavor.
[Shared glass (on tap) with Visionthing at Café Sara in Oslo, Noreway]

On tap at Café Sara, Oslo. Black with a beige head. Roasty aroma with rather noticeable hoppy notes, dark chocolate, coffee, hints of pine and citrus. Moderate sweet with nice mixture of dark and hoppy flavours and a pleasant bitterness. Tasty and easy to drink!

On tap @ Patricks. Pitch black body with a medium sized, dense beige head. Aroma has dark roasted malt, roasted coffee and some dry fruit. Flavor is rather dry, dark, roasted malt, quite much bitter coffee, some dark chocolate and moderate bitterness. Medium body and aftertaste with roasted, dry malt that ends up slightly sour after a while. Decent, but not close to a BIPA if that’s really the intension. Quite dry, not much bitterness, and no pine hops at all. This is definitively a British style Stout in my book.