HillDevils Not Totally Black IPA

Not Totally Black IPA

 

HillDevils in Wouwse Plantage, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Brewed at/by: Dorpsbrouwerij De Pimpelmeesch
  IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular
Score
6.89
ABV: 6.7% IBU: 89 Ticks: 39
Dit is een krachtige Black India Pale Ale. Een bier met een veel hop aroma, ondersteund door donkere mout, en een lichte hint van gebrande mout.
Zeker fruitig, met een mooie toets van hop en koffie. Geen bier om snel te drinken, maar om van te genieten. Proost !!!

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Aroma of roasted malts, tropical fruits, light coffee, light chocolate. Flavour is hoppy, roasty, some chocolate and coffee, some caramelly sweetness, with a medium bitter finish.

Tried on 16 Feb 2025 at 14:03


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle 0,33ltr: Not black but very dark brown colored brew with an great dry bitter taste, with hints of chocolate and with an little bit of smokiness. Great beer in this style.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:35


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Deep dark brown color. Malt, licorice and a hint of ash in the aroma. Roast, ash, licorice and citrus in the slightly tart hopbitter flavor. The licorice dominates. Some grassy hopbitterness in the aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:06


6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hilldevils' interpretation of a 'Cascadian dark ale', with smoked malt and a bunch of classic American hops. Quite strong gusher, but manageable when opened very carefully. Tightly plastery lacing, very thickly mousy, pale yellowish beige, well-retaining head, misty blackish robe but still translucent with a warm purplish-burgundy glow under bright light so indeed not totally black. Aroma of fried barbecue sausages (the smoky element popping up first), pine resin, beef stock, black radish juice, elder leaf, mud, gravy, soaking wet cigarettes, brown soap, soggy brown bread, cloves, old kitchen herbs, stale sweat. Bit estery and sourish onset with very low sweetness, quite outspoken umami edge (black olive, beef stock), prickly minerally carb, bit 'stiff' mouthfeel, resinous. Toasty-nutty and burnt-bread-like malt body with that deep, forest floor leaf-like sourishness continuing, enhanced by a strong, smoky-meaty umami factor as well as a tonic water-like, 'wormwoody', long and piney-spicy bitterness, stretching all the way down the throat alongside the inherent wryness of the roasted malts. I love a good 'BIPA' but this one fails on two points for me: first, I don't see the point of distracting attention from the hops by adding smoked malts, which I would otherwise have nothing against, and second, this needs finetuning in its refermentation, which I even doubt is necessary at all in this particular beer style. Hilldevils still remain somewhat overrated to me...

Tried from Can on 30 Nov 2018 at 23:36


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Bottle 330ml. @ [ after BBF - Hotel Room tasting ] - Room #111, Woerden, Netherlands. [ As Hilldevils Not Totally Black IPA ].Clear dark red brown colour with a large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, pine, hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, dark malt, roasted, fruity hops, pine - wood. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is fizzy. [20160924] 7-4-7-2-14

Tried from Bottle on 18 Dec 2017 at 05:58


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at home, 1st October 17. Pours black, not totally. Aroma is cocoa, citrus. Taste is hoppy enough, cocoa, bitter, a good BIPA actually.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2017 at 14:47


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours black with dark red undertone and quite big off white head. Fruity notes, some black currant and chocolate in the nose. Taste decently bitter, a bit herbal with lasting aftertaste that geys quite noticeable coffee feel later on. Lighter body. Pretty decent.

Tried on 08 Aug 2017 at 15:09


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home. Almost black with big darker beige head. Looks good! Some lime on the nose at first. Grassy hops, more lime, grapefruit, light ash, dark chocolate, dried apricot. Quite fruity and roasted, with chocolate sweetness and some grassy bitterness. Really what you’d expect from a typical black IPA. Medium bodied with carbonation a it in the fizzy side. Enjoyable beer.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2017 at 15:20


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl Bottle from Uiltje Taproom. 6.5%. Black colour, beige head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, toffee, hops. Flavour is medium sweet, malty, toffee, coffee, grapefruit and pine, roasted malts, some chocolate, bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. OK.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Nov 2016 at 14:55


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Zwart bier met weinig tot geen schuim. Smaak is bitter met rook en licht zoet met iets van vruchten.

Tried on 15 Oct 2016 at 09:10