Can from Bierkoning, Amsterdam. Aroma is roasted malt with piney hops, chocolate, citrus, liquorice in the finish. Flavour is moderate sweet with a roasty and hoppy bitter finish. Body is medium. On the roasty side with piney hops, I could have done with less liquorice and more chocolate.

Black IPA (or Cascadian dark ale) by this accomplished Swedish craft brewery, from tap at Bar Beenhouwer. Yellowish beige, tightly paper-lacing, mousy head on a pitch black beer with hazy brown edges. Aroma of ‘fondant’ chocolate, walnut oil, toffee, pine resin, grapefruit peel, salmiak, blood-like iron and something meaty (saddle of hare or something alike). Sweetish onset (candied fig) with meaty umami and blood-like iron aspects, oily and slick body, very toffeeish and almost treacle-like malt sweet body with nutty and chocolatey edges, aromatized by a dash of pine and herbal hoppiness, providing some end bitterness but in a soft way – too soft in fact for a BIPA. Like many other Euro BIPAs, lacking a bit in both hop aromatics and hop bitterness and therefore closer to a porter or stout than an actual Cascadian, but otherwise a delicious, typically Beerbliotek-streamlined and easily drinkable craft beer for sure.

Can from Cotteridge Wines; dark brown pour with a bubbly tan head, aroma has roast and chocolate, taste has mostly creamy chocolate, with pine hints, some roast.

Draught @ SKAAL, Kultorvet 11, Copenhagen, Denmark 1175.[ As Beerbliotek / Wylam Zippy’s Throwing A Party And There’s A Dress Code ].Unclear dark black brown colour with a average to large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, dark malt, roasted, fruity malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, pine, light wood. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, fruity hops, pine, wood, roasted, citrus, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20190317] 7-4-7-3-15

Keg at the beer kitchen. Pours deep brown, nose is roasted, chocolate, burnt malts, taste is sweet, roasted, juicy fruit.

Draft. A black beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes roasted malt, dark chocolate, hops, and a bit of coffee. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, coffee, hops, and citrus fruits, and dark chocolate, leading to a bitter finish.