Black IPA
Iron Horse Brewery in Ellensburg, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.52
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep brown, beige head.Nose is dark malt,piney hops. Mellow malt fore and mid, piney hop finish
Tried
on 16 Oct 2011
at 16:28
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Toby. Pours out very dark brown topped with a sandy cream head. Aroma was of coffee, roast malts, light hops, and some sweetness. Taste was more of the sweet malts and light hops. This was less of a black ipa and more of a porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2011
at 16:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Malt & Vine. Very dark, nearly black, but ruddy copper in the edges. Decent foamy beige head. Nice aroma of hop - seems rather evergreen. Medium body with mild carbonation. There’s smooth toasted dark malt, but there’s a lot of hop, and it still seems evergreen rather than citrus. Maybe some florality. It is extremely tasty. Not harshly bitter, but the malt is well under control.
Tried
on 04 May 2010
at 17:18
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 oz bottle purchased at Esquin Wine Merchant in Seattle, Washington. Pour is a hazed dark cola brown with an off white head that falls with some slight lacing. Aroma of pine hops and mildly charred roast malt in equal measures. Leads to a balance and a real freshness. Simple, but nice nose. Taste is pine hop, peanut and shell, the (slight) roast malt and more residual peanut shells in the finish. Palate is light bodied, active carbonation and a clean thin finish. This is a nice enough beer, though it alternately tastes like a thin hoppy porter or a thin roasty IPA - either way its not quite a Porter or an IPA - I don’t know if that detracts or not, I just found it interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2010
at 19:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Clear redbrown color, short off-white head. Aroma of hop, soft licorice, bit caramel. Taste is bitter, licorice. Decent IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2009
at 13:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bomber bottle, thanks to larsniclas!On June 16, 2009Hazy dark reddish copepr color, off white head. Sweet, cheeze, hoppy, a bit sweet scent. Sweet, hoppy, bitter, dry grainy taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2009
at 16:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
My buddy picked this up for me. I hate to be un-descriptive but there isn;t much to this idea. It is a bitter leafy type of hoppiness mixed up with a watery porter, almost. Its got some light cocoa and some sweet prune. But otherwise I would prefer a shining IPA or a good thick porter, not a blend of the two. Eh, its doable but I don’t get the idea of doing this as a style.
22oz bottle, no date, Bell’s tulip glass.
22oz bottle, no date, Bell’s tulip glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2009
at 23:26
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2
Deep dark brown (80% opaque) coloured body with a nice deep one cenitmetre tall tan head. This definitely looks more like a porter or brown ale than an IPA - but I guess that’s part of the fun? Aroma of malt (not terribly strong), hops, alcohol and a bit of flowers - nothing strong nor telling that this is in fact an IPA. Medium-bodied; Sharp metallic flavour up front, then fading to a little sweetness and some flowers - no hops nor malt, nor alcohol. Overall, this is simply not good - nothing IPA like nor flavourful. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Bottleworks in Seattle, Washington on 11-November-2008, sampled at home in [the real] Washington (D.C.) on 25-January-2009.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2009
at 00:09