Indra Kunindra
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.21
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Our India-style Export Stout is a unique collaboration with award-winning homebrewer Alex Tweet. Released in limited quantities, this explosion of South Asian flavors is reason enough to kneel down and thank the heavens. It’s further proof of San Diego’s status as a brewer’s playground, and a beer lover’s utopia.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
First sniff gave away it’s Indian pedigree. Taste brings in more of the stout characteristics. Chocolate on the back end, curry up front. Savory notes and heat slowly rise up. Complex flavors. Sipper for sure.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2017
at 20:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap @ Rattle N Hum. Quite a deep dark one this, not the best light environment where I'm at now, but this looks pretty close to black ruby. It also has a nice big lasting and quite lacing brown head. Smells really good I have to say. It's almost milk chocolaty, I get cocoa, spices and burnt wood - the last in a mild way. Can't put my finger on what it is about this aroma, but I really like what I'm smelling. Tastes really good also! Almost like a mocha frappuchino just better. It's thick and oily in the mouth while it's creamy and soft on the prickling carbonation. Milk chocolate, lots of nice rich coffee. There's cream and ice. A lovely spiced up creation that I can definitely dig. 11.06.2015
Tried
from Draft
on 24 May 2017
at 01:52
5/10
Ufo! Mega przyprawowo-ostro-kokosowe, ale na cheile obexna cayenne psuje calosc calkiem fajna, szkoda przegiecia w tym temacir. Pali jezyk
Tried
on 18 Apr 2017
at 20:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
I think this is an idea with promise, but the flavors need to be a bit more balanced. Pours a deep, cola black, with minimal head. Curry is strong in the aroma. Flavors include curry and cayenne pepper--maybe just a bit too much pepper. There’s something about this that’s a bit off, just a bit too extreme and I think it’s the pepper, though it might be the curry. I’d like this a lot more if it was balanced just a bit further.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2017
at 14:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at the Hair of the Dog, Phrom Phong Ballast Point tap takeover. 7%. Poured a clear dark brown with a thin off white head. The aroma is super dry and spice with the liqourice notes of the cumin shining through, along with the peppers. The flavour is liqourice bitter with a dry roasty, spicy liqourice bitter palate. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. I didn’t really know what to expect of this beer but I must say I enjoyed it and would buy it again. I think the recipe needs a little work though. The cumin really dominates all the way through and I didn’t get the kaffir lime at all. It needs something else to make it a little more mellow and bring that cumin liqourice back under control.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Feb 2017
at 08:44
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On a flight at the Ballast Point place in Temecula, California on 9th Feb 2017. Dark brown liquid curry sauce with a malty base. Different, interesting and a 4oz pour is enough.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2017
at 03:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Medium brown and hazy. Not much head. Well, getting the curry powder and cumin, assertively, on the nose. On the palate, that’s intense, but the coconut takes centre stage. The cayenne pepper gets to the back of the tongue, the lime leaf has a cameo and there’s still an underpinning of cumin, and turmeric. I honestly cannot believe how balanced those spices are. And there’s a nice cocoa malt character and just the right amount of bitterness, too. I have no idea how they got this so well-balanced.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2017
at 22:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 oz. bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out lots of cumin and curry upfront in full force -- not getting anything else. Flavour is along the same lines, with tons of coconut, curry and cumin dominating. Truly bizarre. For something this strange, it works rather well. Cool experiment.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2017
at 22:27
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Ballast Point Little Italy, San Diego. Really dark brown with a tan head. A lot of spices in this one, mainly curry and cayenne. Well, I don’t know what to say. Not really my kind of thing.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jan 2017
at 14:22
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. A- Cumin, curry, coconut. A- Black color, dark liquid, beige head. T- Cumin, curry, coconut, lime, cayenne. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, slightly spicy finish. O- Wow. This was curry in a cup. I have never tasted a beer that tasted like something else quite like this. Hell, this was more curry like than some curry I’ve had. You can see all the spices floating in the glass. Definitely not something I want to drink a lot of, but I can really appreciate it. Unique as hell and does exactly what it means to do. Coconut curry at it’s finest.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2016
at 21:28