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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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
650ml bottle. Aroma is nothing but curry, and all a bit much. Taste is so much better. Coconut, curry, spice, a little lime and then a chocolate stout underneath. Insane. And really nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2016
at 03:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at Ballast Point. Black pour. Smells like a curry dish, really wird, with some pine and herbs as well, bit like a Tandoori. Taste has lots of spicey curry herbs ass well, with some malt, lots of tandoori and a hotness that starts burning heavier and heavier. Really unique, never had anything like this before. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Sep 2016
at 12:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft. Strong curry, chocolate malt, and light hay aroma. Dark brown with moderate head. Mildly sweet chocolate malt, and strong curry/cayenne flavor. Nice body. Delivers on the spices.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Aug 2016
at 20:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with medium tan head that lasts. The aroma is strong spice, coconut, curry. Medium body, similar flavors to nose, nice heat in the finish, good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2016
at 16:14
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Appellation Wines tasting. Dark brown body with a faint beige head. Aroma of coriander, bay leaf, charcoal and green pepper. Flavour is very spicy - notes of lemongrass, chillies and coconut. Thin to medium body with a soft fizz. A touch too spicy for me, but it’s a really interesting beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2016
at 14:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
So I’m having curry for dinner and figured my aperitif would be this Curry Stout because, why not? Deep only black pour with a beige head. With the smell of curry wafting around my kitchen from the beer I’m mostly picking up stout character in the aroma: savory umami, cinnamon, nutmeg, a chocolate like spice I can’t pin down. Truly the action curry is making this smell surprisingly sweet. The taste is sweet spicy chocolate with a big dollop of chilli pepper heat but still a sweet cardamom finish. With a Japanese curry this baby shines. A weird ass beer but fun. That sweetness I was getting was Chocolat covered coconut like those "mound" chocolates.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Apr 2016
at 09:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head. Nose - like a South Indian curry. Taste - tonnes of fenugreek, kaffir lime and coriander seed. A chilli kick at the end but all on balance. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy and spicy palate. Overall - really very interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2016
at 13:56
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottled shared at Stone in Asagaya. Thanks Masa! Huge coconut forward nose with red curry notes and an overall Thai curry like spice accompaniment. Super light on the palate, almost water-like. Lots of curry spices especially cumin. Hides the abv immaculately and that coconut rolls through the palate and into the finish. Cayenne burn on the finish. However a bit much, seriously. --- Beer merged from original tick of Indra Kunindra on 22 Apr 2016 at 23:19 - Score: 6. Original review text: Lots of coconut, light bodied. Spice body. Tasty curry notes. A bit much though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2016
at 07:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a snifter. Aroma is turmeric, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is turmeric, lime, coconut, and cayenne. Indian food as a beer and quite flavorful.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2016
at 19:45
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Treated as a Forein/Export stout, this was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a ruddy burnt brown to black color with a slim glazing of a white to off white head. Was it even there? Uh...barely.
The smell took some spicy to briny/salty enriched coating over some super light roasty aroma. Coconut was there, but subtle yet still wasn’t there enough to balance as suggested.
The taste enlivened the spice with the salt, it totally took my palatte to a new level of the rich \"hot\" feel on the tastebuds.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with an okay sessionability about it. Carbonation feels subtle enough as the harshness as I know as a Foreign/Export Stout, good ABV on this one.
Overall, I’d say this works, its Ballast Point’s way of taking a Foreign/Export Stout and adding some subtle coconut and a lil’ bit of spice, uh... yes, I’d have this again.
The appearance was a ruddy burnt brown to black color with a slim glazing of a white to off white head. Was it even there? Uh...barely.
The smell took some spicy to briny/salty enriched coating over some super light roasty aroma. Coconut was there, but subtle yet still wasn’t there enough to balance as suggested.
The taste enlivened the spice with the salt, it totally took my palatte to a new level of the rich \"hot\" feel on the tastebuds.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with an okay sessionability about it. Carbonation feels subtle enough as the harshness as I know as a Foreign/Export Stout, good ABV on this one.
Overall, I’d say this works, its Ballast Point’s way of taking a Foreign/Export Stout and adding some subtle coconut and a lil’ bit of spice, uh... yes, I’d have this again.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2015
at 23:05