Broad Ripple Brewing Company Black Heart Lager

Black Heart Lager

 

Broad Ripple Brewing Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Regular
Score
6.42
ABV: 5.9% IBU: - Ticks: 4
A Kulmbacher style black lager. Intensely black in color, it has a pleasant malt flavor and aroma with hints of bitter sweet chocolate.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a soft dark brown close to black color with a fingers worth of white to off white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Sliding lace.
The aroma had some milk chocolate, grains/cereals, some earthiness, and a touch of woodiness.
The flavor was semi-sweet with a sturdy embracing bitterness from the wood flowing in for the blend. Aftertaste was semi-bitter with the sweetness from the chocolate. Not much of a finish.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, seemed more like one of those Euro dark lagers than a real schwarzbier, still, its nothing bad, just dont expect to get an authentic German schwarzbier.

Tried on 01 Jun 2017 at 17:40


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft. Chocolate malt aroma. Chestnut brown with small head. Lightly sweet milk chocolate malt and straw flavor. Not bad.

Tried from Draft on 12 Apr 2015 at 14:12


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

tap at the brewpub - Pours very dark brown with a thin tan head. It has a roast coffee and malt aroma. The flavor is much the same with a touch of fruit. It’s medium to full-bodied and finishes with a little bitterness. Very nice.

Tried from Draft on 18 Jan 2009 at 15:54


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

on nitro-pours a rich light brown head and dark brown with red color. Aroma is funky/off-maybe chemical, cocoa powder, dusty. Taste is funky/off, coffee grounds, cocoa powder, faint earthy hops.

Tried on 01 Sep 2008 at 21:32