Bottle #2 of saturday afternoon prior to a wedding. Pours dark brown with 2 finger head. Nose of coffee and roasted malts. tastes of grapefruit, pine, chocolate, coffee, roasted malt, char, herbal, and earth. A nice robust black ipa. quite good

Piney nose with licorice underneath. Crystal clear garnet brown, medium tan head, good lacing. Thin mouthfeel. Slighty sweet licorice start, but finishes with pine. Alcohol well masked. Nice balance and intensity. Solid and very nioce

"Acquired this just 2 days after it was released here in New Hampshire at the Co-Op. I could have had it sooner had I driven 20 minutes to Harpoon’s Brewery in Vermont. I really love these 100 Barrel Series beers. It’s shown me a lot of what Harpoon is capable of and I appreciate them for that. Poured into a Harpoon 100 Barrel Series Glass at 48 degrees F A - Solid 5 finger head. Very tan and very thick. The head subsided after 3-4 minutes to 1 finger. The name is right. This is a very black IPA. IT’s dark, zero amber or brown tones at all. It looks great in the glass. S - Wow. Coffee and woodiness. I get a ton of sweet right on the nose but some muskiness of an oak tree. It’s a very earthy beer with a lot of fruit...maybe figs. It’s hard to say. T - It’s a pretty high IBU beer at 67 and that’s spot on when I tasted it. The coffee is less pronounced on my tongue than on the nose and more of the earthiness and pine aspects shine through. They could have gone crazy with the hops but this really is performing well. M - Super carbonation at first swish. It’s a medium to high bodied beer. If the ABV was any higher, this would start turning into mollasses feeling beer. It’s already heavy. O - I’d share this one with a friend. You can get two solid pours from the bottle. It’s heavy but still not an insane ABV at 7%. For $6 a bottle, pick one up if you can find it."