Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale
Vancouver Island Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.71
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Just like the eerie sensation that local cavers feel when going “lights out” in one of the Island’s 1,000+ recorded caves, our IDA is a deep descent into your taste buds. Dark in colour with a prominent Northwest hop aroma, the body is balanced with semi-sweet malt flavours of roasted coffee and chocolate. So go on and take a sip into absolute darkness.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at St. Augustine's, pours black with a small tan head. Nose is dry, with bitter dry cocoa, roast and light piney hops. Flavour is decently balanced, with roasted malt and an earthy hoppiness. Pretty competently crafted - just nothing overly interesting. Okay, but lacking.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Mar 2015
at 21:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft - Roast and light hops. Deep maroon with a decent light brown head. Dark roast with some herbal pine hop notes. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Mar 2015
at 18:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
The color is almost black. Mild aroma of roasted malts, ashes; metallic. Dry mouthfeel; it has some ashy roasted malt flavor, but it’s far from impressive, and without the required body; strong bitterness, a bit of minty hop resins, but not much hop quality.
Unimpressive.
The color is almost black. Mild aroma of roasted malts, ashes; metallic. Dry mouthfeel; it has some ashy roasted malt flavor, but it’s far from impressive, and without the required body; strong bitterness, a bit of minty hop resins, but not much hop quality.
Unimpressive.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2015
at 23:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from the government store. Dark brown. Thin head. . The aroma is mostly chocolate with some woody hops influence. A bit thin at irst, but there’s some fudgey sugars in the finish, and a woody, balancing hop bitterness as well. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2015
at 23:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. black, lively carbonation, offwhite head. Roasted notes with a grassy west coast hop counterpoint. Medium light chewy body, sparkly mouthfeel. Quite pleasant and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2015
at 18:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown with light head,. Aromas of cola, chalk/ash, and roasted malts. Flavors of bitter chocolate, burnt coffee, and again cola. Super dry with quite a bit of carbonation. Might go well with a rich chocolate cake...
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2013
at 21:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black,small tan head.Nose of dry malt with notes of citrus & brown sugar.Light roasty palate, toffee undertones, very late bitter medium hop end
Tried
on 31 Mar 2013
at 17:54