Elusive Pig
Pig & Porter Brewing Co. in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England 🏴
Collab with: Elusive BrewingIPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Special Out of Production
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Score
7.18
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Collaboration with Elusive Brewing.
Black IPA using the (as yet unnamed) OZ97a hop, first developed in 1921 but shelved.
Black IPA using the (as yet unnamed) OZ97a hop, first developed in 1921 but shelved.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the Euston tap. A opaque black coloured pour with a lasyi G beige foam. Aroma is nice toasted malts, pine, licks of smoke, pine needles. Palate is semi sweet, frothy rounded carbonation. Flavour is composed of semi sweet nutty malts, burnt pine, tar, Douglas fir. Firm piney bitterness. Lingering woody bark hop and resinous hop. Solid black ipa.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jul 2018
at 19:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the Rusty Bucket, Eltham. Raisin, toffee, pepper spice, ash. Flavours of chocolate raisin, treacle, light coffee, toffee. Good stuff.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2018
at 13:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Waterloo Tap, 11/04/18. Rich mahogany brown with a lasting beige covering. Nose is mellow roast, charr, cocoa powder, toffee, light pine needle. Taste comprises cocoa powder, liquorice, pine dusting, brown bread, toffee, light red berry squeeze. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close peppered with earthy hop bitterness. Decent cask CDA.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2018
at 07:17
8/10
Tried
on 16 Apr 2016
at 14:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Craven Arms; dark brown pour with a light tan head, aroma has pine and dark chocolate, taste has rich pine, chocolate, some roast, quite good.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Apr 2016
at 10:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ NWAF 2016, National Winter Ales Festival (2016), The Roundhouse, Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshire, England, DE24 8JE. [ As Pig & Porter Elusive Pig ].Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dark malt, moderate to light heavy hoppy, pine, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dry, hoppy, roasted, fruity hops, pine - wood. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20160218]
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Mar 2016
at 08:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravicask at Camra’s National Winter Ales Festival. Shared with Finn. Fair tan-coloured head, cloudy dark brown body. Rich malt-fruity nose with a touch of pine. Nicely blended taste of red orange, pine and dark malts. Lingering malt-fruity bitterness to the finish. Fine bodied. Tasty (Derby 19.02.2016).
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Mar 2016
at 05:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Fra cask/gravity på NWAF i Derby 19 Feb 16. Delt med Rune. Svart. Uklar. Lett farget skum. Litt søt fruktaroma. Smaken plommer. Bra fylde. Tørr etter hvert.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2016
at 08:03
8/10
Loads of chocolate chip cookies. Super resinous. Perfect malt usage. No overroasted bollocks. Hops hit my face. Absolutely epic
Tried
at
The Ale House
on 04 Feb 2016
at 15:29