Copper Kettle Black IPA
Copper Kettle Brewing (CO) in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.74
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pint draft at the brewery tasting room in Denver, Colorado. The pour is a darker brown black, hazed with a well formed 1/2 inch tan head. The aroma is caramel toffee sweet, roast, and earthy pine. The taste is the nose, balance between soft sweet caramel toffee, soft roast and the earth and pine dry out the end. The palate is medium bodied, crisp carbonation clean finish. Nice one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap @ Copper Kettle, Denver. Pours very dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, citric hops. Taste is roasted malt, chocolate, orangepeel, citrussly hops. Medium body, soft carbonation, weak bitter finish. Decent, but sweet and abit underpowered.200212
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap @ brewery. Black appearance with a creamy, foamy brown head. Dark roasty chocolate malty with pretty tame, piney hops noted. More hop presence in the flavor that’s fairly piney and fairly bitter. Dark roasty chocolate malty flavor that’s pretty full flavored and enjoyable. Chocolate, hoppy aftertaste. Hops are a little weak, especially in the nose. Pretty solid Black IPA. These guys always seem to make solid brews.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at Copper Kettle - this one falls into the hoppy stout trap that a lot of black ipas do - quite sweet, with a hefty body - quite a bit of chocolate, tempered by a bit of roast, but sweetness persists all the way to the finish - the bitterness and hop flavor doesn’t really kick in until then, but when it does it is quite nice - fresh and green, but well-integrated into the other qualities of the beer - sure, it’s really a hoppy stout, but it’s still tasty.