7

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

Can. Deep brown colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is toasted, some floral, fruity and mild nutty tones. Flavour is sweet fruits, some liquorice, mild coffee, some toasted and nutty tones. Smooth and refreshing.

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

33cl can. A black beer with a big tan head. Aroma of roasted dark malt, coffee and intense bitter hops. Taste of strong roasted malt, coffee, ash, intense bitter hops, green hops, long bitter finish. Very good!

7.4

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

Can at home. Opaque black color, medium to full sized off-white to beige head that diminishes fairly quickly. Aroma and flavor are malts, dark malts, earthy notes, malty bitter. Decent body,decent to medium carbonation. Quite alright.

7

Täitsa viisakas BIPA, humalat võiks muidugi rohkem olla.

8

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

Pours black, lots of initial head that immediately dissipated. Aroma is intense cocoa nibs, herbal hops, pine. Medium body. Flavour is malty, lots of complex dark malts, loads of cocoa, pine, herbal hops, medium bitterness. Finishes bittersweet and chocolatey. A lovely black IPA! The cocoa nibs really come through beautifully.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

7

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

Burk från Etre Gourmete. Mörkbrun vätska med högt beige skum. Doft av tall, svarta vinbär, toast, rostad malt. Smak som doft, harmonisk och stiltypisk BIPA. Gott

7.5

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

31 December 2020. Super Secret New Year's Eve Tasting. Cheers, Anke, Silke & Nima! Can from Geers. Hazy black, unstable, frothy, tan head. Aroma of toast, brown bread, rye bread, fondant, black pepper, pine nuts, chestnut, pink grapefruit, prune. Taste has sweetish maltiness of nuts, brown bread & prune, somewhat sourish too. Firm toasty & black chocolate-like middle, roasted & earthy. Ends earthy & piney hoppy with grapefruit peel adding to complexity. Powdery feel, cocoa nibs returning, almost dark as tobacco. Medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Really well done.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Black IPA with cocoa nibs, hopped with Simcoe and Cascade, from this progressive Walloon microbrewery. Can shared with Steve. Thin and open, pale greyish beige head with thin veils of foam in the middle; black robe with hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of roasted walnuts, black peppercorns, bitter chocolate, dried chilli peppers, pine resin, fresh fig, hard caramel without the sweetness, toasted onion, thyme. Some dried-fruity notes of fig, old raisin and apple peel in the onset but very subdued in sweetness, very light sourish undertone, medium carb, oily body; walnutty, bitter-chocolatey and toasted malt profile, dryish and bittering with the cocoa adding a tad sweetness at the back, but the roasted bitterness prevails - until, at the right moment, it is interrupted by a resinous, piney, wormwoody hop bitterness, adding elements of toasted onion, grapefruit peel and peppercorn in a spicy, lightly citrusy, leafy way, lasting for a long time; some spicy yeast effects show up as well, even a bit bready, but otherwise a sleek Anglo-Saxon BIPA character is maintained. Very solid Cascadian dark ale indeed, the cocoa nibs are not necessary for me and there is perhaps a tad too much yeastiness in the end (not that this personally bothers me though), but I wish more Belgian craft brewers would tackle this sadly waning beer style - I still love it, obsolete as it may have become in these "fruit juice IPA"-ridden times. Keep up the good work, Valéry!

7.6

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

Can picked up at Belgiuminabox, webshop Antwerp, Belgium. Had this at home Friday 20th November 2020 listening to Steve Lamaq on 6Music 'wear your favourite band T Shirt to work day', cooking curries, Nan bread etc from The Curry Guy books. Hazy, dirty gold edging towards orange with a white head. Nice roasty and very good BIPA, hoppiness is good but I like the nice interplay with the malt and chocolate. Really good.