Black Hop Down
Cromarty Brewing Co. in Cromarty, Highland, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.43
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Keg, can and bottle. Dark brown body with a beige head that holds well. Low carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of blackcurrant, treacle, blueberry and meaty malts. Flavour of Black Jack sweets, Marmite, chocolate, flat Coca-Cola and plum. Medium body with a smooth mouthfeel. Light fizz. A rich, complex black IPA - one of the best I’ve tasted. Cromarty are such an excellent, underrated brewery.
Taboada (8803) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
440ml. can. @Auchleven acommodation, Auchleven (Scotland). 02/08/2023 [#6.644 Global - #183 Scotland - #2 Cromarty] Pours dark brown with a creamy tan head. Aroma: dark malts, earthy hops and cola. Taste: coffee beans, roasted malts, toasted bread and some earthy hops. Nice. Next one please!
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle. Quasi black colour with average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, beige to tan head. Roasty, chocolately dark malty and citrusy fruity, hoppy aroma, notes of dark chocolate and cocoa, orange and mandarine, a minimally grassy and leafy nuance. Taste is minimally bitter roasty dark malty and moderately bitter fruity hoppy, notes of cocoa and dark chocolate, orange and tangerine; minimally watery passages. Good!
HKdIPA (1438) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Craftissimo at home. Cola brown pour with slightly off white head. Aroma is an English black IPA - a root beer-like bark note, pine hops, coffee ground roasted malt. Taste is similar - bitter coffee with fresh piney hops, slightly astringent. Not bad at all but not the direction I prefer for black IPAs.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
330 ml bottle, from Oddbins Aberdeen City. ABV is 7.2%. Black colour, moderate tan head. Aroma of roast malts, cold coffee and piney hops, also notes of spruce. Dry flavour with the same elements as in the aroma, bitter finish.
rumore (5447) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From the tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours dark brown, practically black with fine cappuccino foam. Aroma is roasted, resinous, herbaceous, a little licorice. Body is fairly dense, with good carbonation tickling the tongue. Taste is had some sweetness but most of all a marked bitterness, which is rather persistent.
Fin (18365) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Café Beermoth, Manchester, Thursday 30th March 2017 Pours very dark brown with a few scarlet glints, a slim rim of beige bubbles. Quite thick mouthfeel a little sweetshop sweetness. Punchy hoppy flavours, a little wrinkly dryness, good beer. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.5
kajser27 (3009) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown to black colored, creamy tan head with nice lacing and rather lasting. Aroma is of pellety hops, pine, citrus and some floral, some roasty and chocolate notes, medium+ hoppiness. Taste is medium sweet milky and dark chocolate and roasted malt, medium+ pine and citrus, floral hops, some harshness, medium+ bitterness with a dry finish, lasting roasty and hoppy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, oily pellety. Some harshness keeps it from being superb. (cask, Caffe Beermoth, Manchester)
minutemat (16258) reviewed Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, from trade with AshtonMcCobb. Many thanks. Pours black, medium tan head. Aroma is roast, some molasses. Taste is a decent CDA, good roast, liquorice, earth, tar, pine, a little citrus. Enjoyable.
wyzzywyz22 (5889) ticked Black Hop Down from Cromarty Brewing Co. 9 years ago