Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale

Vancouver Island Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular Out of Production

Score

6.71

ABV: 6.5%

IBU: -

Ticks: 7

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

mcberko (47456) reviewed Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing 10 years ago

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

Ferris (26026) reviewed Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing 10 years ago

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

fiulijn (28382) reviewed Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing 10 years ago

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.

Tried on 20 Mar 2015 at 23:31

7.2

Oakes (33493) reviewed Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing 11 years ago

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

jhaase (14816) reviewed Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing 11 years ago

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

Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing 12 years ago

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

crit200 (5324) reviewed Absolute Darkness India Dark Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing 12 years ago

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