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Torrside Brewing in New Mills, Derbyshire, England 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.15
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Hopped thoroughly with Cascade, backed up with a bit of Southern Cross & Motueka, it's a deep dark beer with enough roast to balance all the floral notes. Black IPA may be less trendy these days but it's no less tasty.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at The Green Goddess, Blackheath Royal Standard . Nose is dark fruits, liquorice toffee light citrus aromas. Taste is dark jammy fruits, light smoke, citrus. Malty bittersweet aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Goddess
on 17 Jul 2025
at 20:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask at Ealing Beer Fest 25. Dark. Frothy foamy beige head. Aroma combines espresso, charcoal and a berry edge. Flavourwise it's a bitter club over the head. Cold brew coffee and charcoal. Vague berry notes. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. Very bitter but lacks nuance
Tried
on 10 Jul 2025
at 17:50
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Half pint on keg at the CAMRA winter beer festival.
Thin beige head. Clear almost black pour. Light bitterness. Nice
Thin beige head. Clear almost black pour. Light bitterness. Nice
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2025
at 21:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle. Pours black with a massive beige head taking ages to settle, lasts the duration of the beer. Aroma of roasty, earthy malts, citrusy, piney hops. Taste is the same, fruity hops, orange rind, piney, earthy, dark malts, roasty bitterness, the malts seem to win the battle with the hops. Medium bodied, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2018
at 23:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
14th March 2017
42nd Floor Bottleshare. Opaque dark brown - black beer, tidy pale tan head. Palate is airy and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Mellow dark malts, mildly tangy. Little dark fruits. Hop spice and pine. Light finish. Tidy.
42nd Floor Bottleshare. Opaque dark brown - black beer, tidy pale tan head. Palate is airy and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Mellow dark malts, mildly tangy. Little dark fruits. Hop spice and pine. Light finish. Tidy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2017
at 14:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared in London - thanks to Ken. Pours deep brown with a frothy, tan head. The nose holds well toasted pine, cocoa, orange rind. Medium sweet flavour, pretty bitter, some burnt grass, earth, bitter baking cocoa. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Ashy roast in the finish, more baking coco, burnt pine, aged citrus peel. Good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2017
at 14:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared on Level 42 14/03/2017. Many thanks to Kenny for this one. A dark black brown coloured pour with a lasting loose light tan head. Aroma is dirty, little farmyard, brown malts, dirty pine. Flavour is composed of woody roast, pine, citrus, lemon, woody. Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation, Dirty pine. Decent black ipa.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2017
at 14:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle split at L42, thanks to Kenny, 14/03/17. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is cocoa powder, light dungy tones, spice, toffee, earthy, dark fruit rinds. Taste comprises light cocoa, spice, charr, light roast, toffee, dark fruits, faint pine. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok CDA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2017
at 14:23
7/10
Tried
on 14 Mar 2017
at 14:20