Pink Sabbath
Great Notion Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Steeplejack Brewing CompanyIPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Special
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Score
7.16
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With the help of our friends at Steeplejack and Pink Boots Society, we have taken a foray into the dark side of hops. This Black IPA is an unholy union of rye malts and Chinook, Cascade, Citra, and Dolcita hops.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a chocolate to burnt copper colored body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up an interesting and inviting blend of grapefruit, pine, chocolate malts and roasted malts. The taste delivers firm grapefruit to pine sap near chewy hop bitterness. To midway chocolate malts and increasingly roasted malts begin to kick in and culminating with a moderate degree of burnt malts. This achieves a tasty hop to roasted malt balance. I dig it.
Tried
from Draft
at
Tipsy Cactus TapRoom & Bottle Shop
on 07 Jan 2026
at 03:25
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Taster flight at Great Notion NW. Dark brown pour, ring of beige head, rings of lacing. Light roasty aroma. Taste features elements of chocolate, dark toast.
Tried
from Draft
at
Great Notion Brewing NW
on 14 Dec 2025
at 22:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black body with beige head that lasts. Light malt aroma with some hop. Roasty body with hoppiness. Lasting finish. Good body.
Tried
from Can
at
Saraveza
on 13 Dec 2025
at 18:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap. Pours unclear black, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is pine, roasty. Flavor is light sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body. Gr8 example of an increasingly rare style that deserves more love
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Nov 2023
at 23:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Great Notion - Georgetown, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is robust, with lots of roasted malt and earthy, piney hops in standard black IPA balance. Flavour is a little murky and muddled, with earthy, roasted malt, and bittering hops that don't have the best clarity. A bit too muddled and lacking precision. I'm glad they tried this forgotten style, but the execution leaves something to be desired.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jan 2022
at 03:57