Notorious B.I.P.A.
St Andrews Brewing (Scotland) in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.07
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared in Hackney - thanks to Ken. Pours dark brown with a frothy, tan head. Burnt pine in the nose, ashy roast. Light sweet flavour with chalky baking cocoa, scorched earth, more ash. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Bitter ashy finish, more cocoa, torched pine. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to Kenny. It pours darkest brown with a tiny off-white head. The aroma is bitter - sweet, earthy roasted malt, tangy dark fruits, plum, D&B, cola pine needles and coffee grounds. The taste is bitter - sweet, charred roasted malt, burnt pine, rich roast, ashy, peppery spice, wood shavings and soapy citrus with a dry, charred finish. Medium body and average carbonation. A touch raw maybe, but decent enough overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared at Leightons place 27/03/2017. Many thanks to Kenny for this one. A mostly clear nutty brown coloured pour with a small beige head. Aroma is zesty citrus, lemon rind, nutty malts, pine, plastic. Flavour is composed of soft roast, ash, piney hop, plastic, little woody. Palate is medium sweet, moderate carbonation, sticky hop. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can split at LKS Hacknee Hights, thanks to Kenny, 27/03/17. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is light perfume, charr, pine, straw, biscuit, toffee. Taste comprises chalky minerals, cocoa powder, spice, toffee, charr, pine needle. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close peppered with earthy hop bitterness. Ok CDA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thank you tderoeck! 330 ml. bottle split post ACBF 2017. Black, big creamy mocha head. Nose is herbal, roast, bitter licorice, herbal roast. More malt roast bitter than hop bitter. Taste is herbal roast, mocha, bitter grains, very dry, old school bitter Porter BIPA, herbal coffee, grainy, big dry roast. Not a modern BIPA at all but a quite nice beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as St Andrews Notorious B.I.P.A. (by St Andrews Brewing (Scotland)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
3/III/17 - 33cl bottle @ post-ACBF tasting (home) - BB: 21/X/17 (2017-353) Thanks to Wixie for picking up the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, big creamy beige irregular head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet, caramel malts, sugary, some dried fruits. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: pretty bitter start, malty, hoppy, grassy, caramel. Aftertaste: bitter hops, some chocolate, malty, caramel, hoppy, bitter finish, very dry, resinous bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle from Appellation Wines, Dalry Road. Tanned from the bottle due to having packed all the glasses away. Assume it’s dark. Chocolate and pine on the aroma and taste. Some marmalade. Light roast. Hoppy stout. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head. Nose - mostly stouty. Creamy chocolate. Some light pine though even if the citrus seems to be missing in action. Taste - mostly chocolate again and it’s very creamy. There is some citrus in the form of marmalade. Some lime pith sneaks in at the finish. Palate - close to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long elegant creamy finish. Overall - definitely on the stout side of black ipa. But it’s good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home... Dark black.. Massive tan head... Soft pine chocolate roast malts nose.. Heavy chocolate roast nose... Dark dry roast.. Big bitter roast.. Long lime... Dark pine.. Heavy malts