Dawn Stealer (2020 Edition)
Staggeringly Good in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.17
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Our beefed up 2020 edition is Heavily hopped with Amarillo bringing a perfectly balanced fruity aroma to layered dark malts.
Dawn Stealer from the valley of the moon. Nobody knows his true identity. He exists in the shadows where the rules do not apply. A hoppy mastermind somewhere between dark & light. Woman love him, men admire him, a dangerous enigma from another time.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers GB! Aroma of coffee, orange, chocolate and pine. Taste is slightly spicy and charred with berry undertones. Slightly bitter and very smooth long finish. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Deconinck. Hazy black, thin, frothy, beige head. Aroma of blood orange, pink grapefruit, mandarin peel, mango, prune, walnut, toast, vague butter. Taste has bittersweet blood orange, pineapple & orange peel, bit nutty, toasty. Piney hoppy finish, sour edge of citrus, quite grapefruity. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Very fruity BIPA, nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
17/5/2021. Can sample courtesy of SHIG, cheers! Pours very dark mahogany brown with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma of roasted malt, charcoal, medicine, liquorice, chocolate, orange, pine. Moderate sweetness and medium bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation. Bitter earthy finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Panda at home, thanks to SHIG, 18/04/21. Black with a well presented khaki cap. Nose is dusty hops, pine needle, dried red berries, cocoa sprinkle, dark malts. Taste comprises mellow roast, spice, cocoa sprinkle, pine needle, charr, dried red berries. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with dusty hop bitterness. Decent CDA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Panda 🐼 at home thanks to SHIG. An opaque nut brown coloured pour with a fine greyish tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, earthy tarmac, nutty malts, rubber tyre, pine needles. Palate is semi sweet, oily, highish carbonation. Flavour is composed of nutty, big liquorice, piney hop, brown sugars, spicy hop, big dirty hop, treacle. Xolid BIPA.
SHIG (13859) reviewed Dawn Stealer (2020 Edition) from Staggeringly Good 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can: Poured a black brown with a thin light brown head. Aroma is bitter hops, roasted malts. Taste is bitter hops, roasted malts, chocolate, grassy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Thin tan head left a spotty cover on a black still body. Malt, coal & berry aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a clean back. Malt, smoked, roasted, caramel & toffee tastes with a hoppy finish. It's a good one!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Staggeringly Good Brewery, Portsmouth (online shop). A black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, hoppy, citrus, chocolate aroma and taste. Very drinkable/moreish black IPA from Staggeringly Good.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
44cl can from the brewery.
Medium beige head. Hazy almost black pour. Nice bitterness. Well balanced.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can from the brewery. Aroma combines a grassiness with light coffee and underlying citrus. Opaque cola. Foamy beige head. Medium bitter. Peripheral sourness. Some creamy sweetness. Stone fruit, dark berries and creamy coffee. A pinch of gravy later appears. Medium. Creamy. Pretty flat carbonation, a slight prickle. Long dry finish. A smooth Black IPA with the hops and coffee balanced our by a creaminess. Edit: after a some Boursin it really develops a blackcurrant flava.