Fyne Ales Sanda Black

Sanda Black

 

Fyne Ales in Cairndow, Argyll and Bute, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular
Score
6.88
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 45 Ticks: 65
A black IPA with a light creamy tan head. Aroma is of roasted malts with hints of gooseberry. It is hopped with Nelson Sauvin, coffee notes round out the beer to give some great flavours. More of a west of Scotland balance to the IPA than a West Coast USA balance, and we think it works really well.

Sanda gets its name from the Sanda lighthouse, located off the southern tip of the Mull of Kintyre in southwestern Scotland.
 

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6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Black color with a frothy beige head, nice lacework and good lasting. aroma has roasty and licorice notes. Flavor is moderate bittery with roasted and black chocolate notes, some burnt sugar is also present. Bittery final with good duration.
Tried on 07 Jun 2014 at 12:06

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
Black beer with a beige head. Smell is quite sweet with a touch of caramel. The taste is fruity as well with a hearty hop flavour and a bitter which lingers quite bitterly on the tongue. I don’t think there’s any one flavour which dominates which, were it a touch less strong, would probably make it perfect as a session beer for me.
Tried on 24 May 2014 at 14:40

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
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Tried on 05 May 2014 at 15:22

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
33cl bottle from the Brewery. Pitch black with a fast fading beige head; sweet, grainy aroma; oaty body with some sweet chocolate;and a clean crisp, but rather thin, finish.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2014 at 11:56

6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 5
Bottle. Brownish black with a thin head. Aroma is fruity. Flavour is fruity hop, a little creamy roast, overall a bit watery.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2014 at 13:52

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle 330ml. @ 5th Borefts Beer Festival 2013, Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands. [ As Fyne Ales Sanda Black ].Clear dark red brown color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, moderate hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, roasted, fruity, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130927]
Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2014 at 08:48

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
330ml bottle from Appellation Wines. Pours deep dark brown, thin off-white head. Aromas are roasted coffee, almost smoky, chocolate and dark fruit. Taste has some good resin hop bitterness. More roast. Bitter linger. Good.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2014 at 08:37

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
(bottle, 33cl) Dark brown colour with a beige and short foamy head. Roast-malty aroma with notes of dark chocolate, bread crust, liquorice, accompanied by piney and subtle fruity hops. Moderately roasty bitter and slightly sweet flavour, light to medium bodied with a moderate carbonation. Roasty malt-character with notes of dark chocolate, liquorice and mocha; a mildly sweet malty touch shows up towards the moderately roasted and piney hoppy finish. Nice little Black IPA. 20.XII.13
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2014 at 13:53

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle: Deep ruby-amber coloured, small and stable loose tanned head, dry grapefruity and herbal hoppy nose with an even drier roasty background; moderate to solid dryish bitter flavour with a slight residual sweetness, a light acidity barely detectable, light to medium bodied, relatively soft; lingering dryish hoppy and roasty finish. Good, but not completely convincing…
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2014 at 15:22

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beer Central, Sheffield. Clear, very dark red. Thin, tight, creamy white head. Aroma is all dark malt. Light, roast coffee. Hint of liquorice. Hint of chocolate, too. Lots going on. Taste is where the IPA bit kicks in. Dry, fairly bitter. A little dark chocolate sweetness. Fairly full bodied. Dry, bitter finish. Decent.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2014 at 14:12