Black IPA
Les Bières Du Confluent in Floriffoux, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brasserie ValducIPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular
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Score
7.08
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Le tout dry-hoppé au Simcoe, Citra, Chinook et Amarillo apportant des notes florales et d'agrumes.
Bière brassée en collaboration avec la Brasserie Valduc-Thor.
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Lameth (4946) reviewed Black IPA from Les Bières Du Confluent 2 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Deep Black color and a huge tan head. Fruity nose, red berries. Taste ot roasted malts, dark coffee, dark chocolate, cassis, black currant, faint raspberries. Nice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Black IPA on 17 Sep 2023 at 21:55 - Score: 8. Original review text: Deep Black color and a huge tan head. Fruity nose, red berries. Taste ot roasted malts, dark coffee, dark chocolate, cassis, black currant, faint raspberries. Nice.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Black IPA from Les Bières Du Confluent 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl can (now brewed by CoHop) from Craft Beer Market de Namur beer store in Namur. F: huge, tanned, long lasting. C: black, opaque. A: roasted malts, coffee, citrus, bit dark chocolate, bit nutty, pine touch. T: medium to full malty base, roasted tones, dark chocolate, nutty, pine, grapefruits, nice balanced long lasting bitterness, medium velvety carbonation, very nice for the style, fully enjoyed.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Black IPA from Les Bières Du Confluent 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The third and so far most recent addition to the Confluent range, a series of craft beers brewed at Valduc by a client brewer in Floriffoux in the Namur province of Belgium. Mocha-beige, shred-lacing, uneven-bubbled, coarse and breaking head on a very dark chocolate brown beer, almost black with misty red wine edges. Aroma of burnt toast, roasted walnuts, black peppercorns, hard caramel but without the sweetness, dry leather, black olive, nutmeg, hints of sweeter toffee and liquorice in the background. Dryish onset with aspects of burnt raisin and dried fig, medium carbonated; slick, bit oily body, toasted brown-bready and walnutty maltiness with growing roastiness in the end, chicory-like and enhanced by long, leafy hop bitterness; spicy hints of thyme and liquorice trail behind. Like most European interpretations of black IPA (a style which has dramatically declined in its home country, alas), this one focuses too much on sheer bitterness and roastiness and not enough on aromatic hoppiness, thereby creating something that is not enough IPA and could just as well pass for a dry stout. That said, and even if this one needs a bit more hops and some 'oomph' in general, it is certainly not bad for a first attempt at this style, which in my view is very hard to balance; it still confirms my belief that this Confluent project is as promising as it is ambitious, and I will certainly keep following it.