Double Gnarly Black IPA
Sockeye Brewing in Boise, Idaho, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.10
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz bottle-pours a tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is medium malt, herbal. Taste is medium roast malt, pine/herbal hop bite.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Double Gnarly Black IPA from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Taste courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Thanks John. Pours deep amber with clear ruby hues and light tan head. It has a pleasing pine hop aroma with modestly roasty malts in the background. The taste is nice with an assertive level of pine hops followed by a murmuring of dark roasted malts. Into the finish the dark malt roastiness grows some to provide a pleasing balance against the pine hop bitterness.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Double Gnarly Black IPA from Sockeye Brewing 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Sockeye Boise. Pours out black topped with a small cream head. Aroma was holly hops lots of fresh floral and citrus hops. Taste was all the hops on the nose and then some. Lots of grapefruit peel bitterness along with a light roast to help hold this one together. I am pretty happy that the local guys keep trying to do some big beers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at the brewpub. Well it is definately black. Not the thick viscous of an imperial stout though. A hoppy roasted nose, with a little fruity, graoe jelly type thing. Bitter, but exactly imperial, the roastedness seems to mute the sharp bite of the hops a bit. The trailer dissipates very quickly. I have a few black IPAs snd been underwhelmed by them all. This one is prtetty good. -tried this again 12/30 and am liking the fresh hoppy citrusy aroma more than I remember. Very nice. Noticing less any roasted flavors this time. Not sure if it could be the effect of sitting in the keg(s) for another 6 weeks, but it is better than I remember.