Circle Of Onyx
Burnt Mill Brewery in Badley, Suffolk, England 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.49
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This year's IWD is a Black IPA. We were joined by women from all stretches of the brewing world for our annual International Women's Collaboration Brew Day and the brilliant minds came up with this special beer. Extra Pale malt with some carefully blended dark malts has given us a beautiful black colour with little roast flavour. Ultra Dark Malt Extract from Muntons gave the colour a serious boost. We fermented with BRY 97 from Lallemand yeast for a clean West Coast style to allow the hops to shine through. For the hops we wanted to explore Crosby Hops CGX cryogenic lupulin hop pellets. We used Crosby Hop's Columbus, Azacca CGX™ and Amarillo CGX™ which has produced punchy pine and citrusy orange West Coast goodness.
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7.5/10
Tried
on 08 Nov 2025
at 13:15
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jun 2024
at 14:07
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
4/5/2024. Can shared by ITFCDan. From Hopsters, Ipswich. Pours black with a foamy tan coloured head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, citrus, orange, resin, pine. Moderate sweetness, medium plus bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2024
at 17:37
7/10
Tried
on 04 May 2024
at 18:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home picked up from Fuss Clube. An opaque black brown coloured pour with a lasting mid tan head. Aroma is resin, singed pine, tar, floral pine, toasted malts, liquorice. Flavour is composed of toasted malts, liquoprice, char, burnt pine, resin, floral pine, Assertive bitterness. Solid bitterness. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, fine carbonation. Really Solid Black IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2024
at 21:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at home, 27th April 2024. Pours a black one. Aroma is cocoa, chocolate, citrus and aromatic. Taste is bitter, roasted malts, cocoa and coffee, citrus and pine. Good
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2024
at 06:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at home in Hackney - picked up from Bottle Apostle, South Hackney. Pours black-brown with a billowing, foamy beige head. Medium sweet flavour with ample burnt floral notes, earth, cocoa, orange peel. Medium bodied with active carbonation. Floral finish, roasty, more burnt pine, baking cocoa. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Apr 2024
at 19:52
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
440ml can. Pours black with with a big tan head. Aroma of roast malts, coffee, pine. Taste is roasty, coffee, pine, orange and grapefruit, moderate bitterness. Cracking BIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2024
at 22:12
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can online from Cork & Cask, Edinburgh. Pours near black with tan foam. Aroma: roast malts, light coffee, grapefruit, liquorice, pine. Taste: light to moderate sweet & moderate+ bitter, roast, pine, grapefruit, marmalade. Medium body with fine carbonation. A cracking BIPA
Tried
from Can
on 11 Apr 2024
at 22:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Half-pint, draught at Port Street Beer House. Shared with Finn. almost black in the glass, fine lacing from a stable fawn-coloured head. Roasted on the nose, hints of biscuit and bread-like malts, inviting. Fine blend of dark bread, biscuit and a backdrop of resinous hops. Roasted bitter tail. Medium bodied. Nice. (rating no. 24500) (Manchester, 24.03.2024).
Tried
on 11 Apr 2024
at 18:38