Olber's Paradox
Wren House Brewing Company in Phoenix, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Special|
Score
7.50
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As each star in the universe is unique in its own make up, we can’t help but pay homage to a style that drives its own paradox, the Black IPA. We introduce Olber’s Paradox. This offering is seriously hoppy, jumping out of the glass with notes of pine, citrus, berry and stone fruit, supported by highly kilned rye and barley malts for color, body and a pillowy head retention. With a lighter body, smooth finish and nestled at 7.7% abv, this beer will keep you coming back for another sip of refreshing hoppiness to start taking you down the rabbit hole of life’s other big mysteries.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can thanks to Ibrew2or3: Poured a deep brown with a whispery brown head. Aroma is rugged hops, roasted malts, edgy fruit. Taste is roasty malts, citrus, hoppy, alcohol hidden which could be trouble.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Apr 2023
at 00:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can shared at shigs place in Newport news, many thanks to shig and Dave. Aroma is nutty, big sticky pine, sap, black liquorice, burnt pine tips. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, layered black coloured tar, liquorice, singed pine tips, black sugars. Palate is sticky hop resins, highish carbonation.. Solid cda. Big lingering bitter pine tar.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Apr 2023
at 00:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at SHIG place tasting, thanks to SHIG, 15/04/23. Black with a good sized khaki head. Nose is pine needle, dark malts, charr, spice, dried red berris, cocoa sprinkle. Taste comprises bitter tropical fruit esters, pine needle, dark malts, hop spice, earthy roast, charr. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with earthy hop bitterness and a light boost. Solid CDA.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Apr 2023
at 00:17
8/10
Tried
on 16 Apr 2023
at 00:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pint can pours with a nice deep dark colored body that supports a nice light tan head of foam that leaves behind plenty of spotty lacing. The aroma offers up a pleasing dark malt roastiness blended with a hoppy dankness that then flows into pine hop nuanced citrus hops. The taste delivers a blast of bitter pine and slightly dank hops as well as bitter grapefruit hops and a dash of citrus juiciness. Of course the hoppiness is paired nicely with a varied array of roasted malts to almost burnt malts. This reaches CDA balance and yum.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2022
at 03:17