Elusive Brewing Alone In The Dark

Alone In The Dark

 

Elusive Brewing in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular
Score
6.92
ABV: 5.8% IBU: - Ticks: 8
We teamed up with the Totally Natural Solutions team to create this beer which showcases their flowable hop products.

We used HopGain® FLOE Citrulicious for the whirpool addition then HopBurst® Citrulicious and HopBurst® Nectaron cold side before dialling in the bitterness with HopAlpha® NISO. Black IPA is a style we love to brew and one that's perfect for the selected hops, bringing top notes of citrus and peach. Unfined and vegan friendly *waves*. Serve cold in your favourite glass.
 

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

440ml can. Pours black with a small beige head. Aroma of grapefruit, peach, dark malts. Taste is fruity at first, peaches and grapefruit, dark malts and a little chocolate, roast, perhaps a touch of liquorice, light piney bitterness, tangy. Medium bodied. Very decent.

Tried from Can on 14 Aug 2024 at 20:24


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Gravity cask at the 33rd Ealing Beer Festival, 12/07/24. Black with a tan head that thins to a swirl and edgeing. Nose is dark malts, tangy fruits, earthy notes, liquorice, pine nip. Taste comprises cocoa sprinkle, dark malts, light charr, dried red berries, pine needle, more tangy fruit esters. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close spiked with earthy hop bitterness. Had hoped for more with a CDA from Elusive ... just a touch overly tangy and raw.

Tried from Cask on 07 Aug 2024 at 07:01


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at The Ealing Beer Festival 2024, Ealing, London. A dark brown coloured pour with a healthy beige bubbly head on top. Roasty, malty, fruity, bitter taste and aroma. Rather harsh and unbalanced, not great.

Tried from Cask on 12 Jul 2024 at 08:41


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

440ml can as part of a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. Very dark brown, opaque, a tiny ring of beige head. Big piney aroma, dark malts, a little liquorice. Taste is sweet with liquorice and treacle, more pine resin, brown sugar. Bitterness near the finish. Light body with low carbonation. A real winner.

Tried from Can on 08 Jul 2024 at 21:06


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can at home from Elusive, 7th July 24. Pours a light beer, and dark brown black in colour. Aroma is cocoa and roasted malts, taste is a little lacking, light aromatic, light roasted malts, cocoa, fine, but lacking some punch

Tried from Can on 07 Jul 2024 at 19:39


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can ordered from the brewery. Aroma is relatively low key. Coffee. Berries. Polite. Hazy cola brown. Creamy off-white soon recedes. Tangy berries, coffee bitterness and cacao. Develops fruity sweetness and hints of resin. Getting a burnt element into the finish. Fine but a tad too fruity in terms of balance for me.

Tried from Can on 22 Jun 2024 at 19:29


7

Tried on 20 Jun 2024 at 12:04


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at the Nottingham craft beer festival 2024. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are light malty and slight citrus. Some chocolate bitterness. Medium body.

Tried from Draft on 15 Jun 2024 at 11:10