Skeleton Coast IPA
Jack Black's Brewing Co. in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 🇿🇦
IPA Regular|
Score
6.44
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Light orange and some malt. Decent balance. Orange pour like High C. Tangy finish. Bottle.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Crisp copper and light amber coloured body with a rich, thick, fast-dying off-white head, about six centimetres tall. Aroma of light pine, hops, earth and caramel - not much else around. Medium-bodied; Assertive nutty and herbal qualities with some pungent earth and sugars and a rather unrefined flavour of the hops and malt. Aftertaste shows more of a malt and earth flavour with some nuts than anything else - some light sweetness, a ton of pungent bitter malt notes and not much hops at all. Overall, a fairly poor IPA and it shows - but this is rather typical for a ZA IPA, sadly. That said, I’ll keep drinking these and trying other options as the different craft beers in ZA aren’t very large. I sampled this 440 mL bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 12-July-2015 for US$3,29 sampled at home in Washington on 07-August-2015 just two days from returning back to the great country that is our [humanity’s] motherland of South Africa, specifically Cape Town.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
440ml bottle many thanks to Stefan for sharing. Dense and bubbly off-white head. Lacing rings down the glass. Near-clear amber coloured body. Moderate smell of caramel and apricot. Flavoured with mid-sweet caramel, earth, and dried fruity hops. Bittersweet ending. Medium bodied. Fair enough (session in Tromsø 03.06.2015).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Loco Liquor in Blairgowrie, Johannesburg, the BBE that was supposed to be printed on the cap is just a cloud of black printer dots
Hazy amber color with medium sized compact head. The aroma is rather sweaty, from the hops, a bit metallic, followed by some caramel, maybe vegetables. The caramel flavor is good, with a rather dry mouthfeel; the first sips were clean and pleasant, with a high bitterness level and some orangey hop qualities, but as I dig into the glass a coarser bitterness appears, more vegetables (from the yeast), and some chicory.
Still, it’s a good beer, but what happened there removes the excitement.