Saddle Black (5.8%)
Purity Brewing in Alcester, Warwickshire, England 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.01
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Saddle Black is our gnarly black beer using Pilgrim, Chinook and Cascade hops to help give a full smoky and citrus aroma. The roasted malts used to craft this full flavoured black beer will give a taste of chocolate and espresso, whilst the use the of smoked malt gives saddle black a well-rounded finish. With aromas are a mix of black pepper, deep fruits, orange and spices. The mouthfeel is full bodied and complex with a lingering bitter finish. IBU 65.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear dark brown with a bubbly off-white head. The aroma is light malt. The flavour is light bitter with a hop liqourice bitter light spice palate and a long bitter finish. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation. Not a lot going on. The pump clip is more attractive than the beer. Chocolate and coffee? Really didn’t get that at all.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Mar 2014
at 11:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Jekyll &Hyde, Birmingham. Pours black with a small head. Aroma is coffee and grapefruit. Taste has pithy grapefruit to start and piney hops in the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2014
at 03:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Westow House. It pours darkest ruby with a medium tan head. The nose is roasted malt, toast, chocolate, varnish, treacle, dark fruits and jammy berry. The taste is rich, roasted malt, peppery, pine, varnish, bold bitterness, cola cubes, dark fruit, Dandelion & Burdock, resin, twiglets, treacle and cocoa with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Quite intense, rich and bitter. Really good depth of flavour. A great cask Black IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Feb 2014
at 06:56
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Haymarket. Pours deep dark black, thin tan head. Aromas are sweet dark malt and citrus hops, no roast in evidence. Taste is also sweet and orange-bitter. Finishes a tad thin, but nice enough.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Feb 2014
at 11:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pint cask at Nicholson’s pub in canary wharf. Aroma is berry esters and piney hop s. Dark caramel opaque pour with a steadfast cream head. Flavour is choc berry and cherry with a really solid piney bitterness. Some mineral and chalky palate.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jan 2014
at 14:10
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the Haymarket. Appearance - opaque black with a proportionate head. Nose - just a hint of marmalade. I often get yhis as a merging of the chocolate stout and ipa citrus notes. Taste - more of the same but more pronounced. Palate - light to medium bodied with a creamy texture and a nice balance on tje finish. Overall - a good find. Well made black ipa.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jan 2014
at 03:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Hare and Hounds; dark brown pour with firm tan head, hop and malt aroma, taste has citrus an piney hops along with roasted malts, quite floral and a bitter finish good work. --- Beer merged from original tick of Saddle Black on 22 Feb 2015 at 15:43 - Score: 7
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Jan 2014
at 08:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the haymarket bar... Deep black... Thin tan head... Big hoppy... Soft dark roast malt nose... Juicy roast.. Light pine hop bitterness.. Ruch and smooth
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jan 2014
at 09:12
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Piccadilly Tavern, Manchester. Very black with a thin off-white creamy head. It has a sweet malt aroma with a medium to full body and a smooth texture.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Dec 2013
at 14:01