Blacks Kinsale Brewery & Distillery Black IPA

Black IPA

 

Blacks Kinsale Brewery & Distillery in Kinsale, Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪

  IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular
Score
6.61
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 60 Ticks: 38
A unique beer that ambushes your senses, it pours dark with a creamy beige head but tastes light and hoppy! Complex hoppy fruity flavours and aromas mixed with roasty bitter chocolate and coffee tones. Low carbonation for a smooth stout like finish. Dressed in black, charged with hops and ready to rock.

Hops: Centennial, Citra, Vic Secret
 

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

Deep brown but very much brown and not black. Foamy tan head. Deeply toasted malts, bright citrus, light coffee, a bit of flora, nutty. Medium bodied. Finish has citrus and roasted malts. There is a balance between the roasted notes and citrus but this skews very light overall for this style of beer. It’s a nice and easy beer.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2026 at 14:06


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. Black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is nutty, some roasted, mild floral and fruity tones. Flavour is quite roasted and chocolaty with some mild wood, fruits and floral tones. A bit too roasted for black ipa, more actually a porter than cda/bipa in my books.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2022 at 21:08



7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

50cl bottle from Stonemanor, The British Store near Brussels. F: medium, tan, average retention. C: dark brown to black, opaque. A: citrus, orange, roasted malts, berries, bit coffee, chocolate. T: medium malty base, roasted malts, citrus, orange, dark berries, bit chocolate, cocoa, decent long lasting bitterness, dry on the palate, liquorice touch, good one, enjoyed.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2022 at 18:30


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle from convenience store next to Salt House, Galway. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, hops, flowers, chocolate, caramel and has a nice bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2019 at 21:02


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

A colablack beer, a head is medium and light beige. Aroma has fruitness adn roastiness, some coffee. Taste has dry roastiness, low fruitness. Medium- bodied. Pretty nice.

Tried on 05 Oct 2019 at 18:44


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

500 ml bottle purchased at the Centra in Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland. The pour is brown black with a frothy tan 2 inch head. The aroma is pine and nut roast. The taste is pine resin right away with a hint of orange, an odd peanut flavor then the roast malt. The palate is light bodied with active carbonation and a dry soft roast and pine bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2019 at 22:44


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

Bottle, 5%. Fruity aroma, slightly rotten. Almost black colour, seems clear. Stable tan head. The flavour is faintly fruity, but mostly roasted. Also a little bready.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Apr 2019 at 17:05


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Some roast, some hops. Comes together OK but not a ton here. Dark mahogany pour with ok head. Bottle in Ireland.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Mar 2019 at 23:09


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 500ml. @ [ (PBF XII Tasting.) by oh6gdx ] - Petalax, Finland. [ As Blacks Black IPA ].Unclear medium to dark red brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, sweet malt, toasted - roasted, moderate hoppy, fruity hops, light wood. Initial flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, dark malt, sweet malt, hop bitter finish, light woody. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180707] 6-3-7-3-14

Tried from Bottle on 07 Oct 2018 at 19:21