Open Water Brewery Paradoxale

Paradoxale

 

Open Water Brewery in Lemland, Countryside, Åland Islands 🇦🇽

  IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular
Score
6.60
ABV: 6.1% IBU: 55 Ticks: 22
Black IPA is a india pale ale but with a dark colour, we have choosen to take a unusual and more difficult (but better if you ask us) method to achieve this. We mash our Paradoxale as we would a normal IPA but when we reach the point of mash out, we add the roasted malt wich gives the brew its dark colour. The method gives us the colour and nutty tones of roasted malt but the short contact time doesn’t allow the roasted malt to realase it`s bitter astringent compounds, we want the bitterness to be from hops not malt.
 

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Tried from Bottle on 30 Mar 2024 at 20:41


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

21/4/2023. Bottle shared by Erik & Co, many thanks. Åland rating #10. Pours very dark brown with a lasting frothy beige head. Aroma is hoppy, light roasted malts, citrus, resin, light coffee, bit soapy and waxy, with some dark fruits developing. Moderate sweetness and moderate roasted bitterness. Medium body, ligth prickly carbonation. Drying finish. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2023 at 19:55


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

330ml bottle bought from djoeye. Slowly diminishing beige head leaving clingy lacing down the glass, coal black body. Roasted malty aromas, earthy and with a scent of pine. Balanced taste profile of pine, dark malts, and dark fruits, a bit doughy. Smooth dark malt-fruity finish with roasted bitterness. Fine depth. Likeable. (Tromsø, 02.04.2023).

Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2023 at 18:05


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottled (thanks Minna!). Black colour, mediumsized beige creamy head. Aroma is toasted, some chocolate, coffee and mild creamy notes. Flavour is coffee, toasted, mild chocolate, some roasted notes as well as mild toffee and some creamy notes. Quite biting carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2023 at 12:29


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

A very dark brown beer, a head is medium and beige. Aroma has roastiness, light fruitness, coffee. Taste has roastiness, fruitness, nicely dry, also medium bitterness. Medium bodied. Tasteful.

Tried on 10 Feb 2020 at 21:57


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from ferry. Almost black with airy, beige head. Soapy floral lavender, roast, liquorice and cocoa. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2018 at 21:43


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Smell of hops, some ash. Black colour, very high brown head. Aroma of ash, roasted malt, hops. Some tar and earth in finish. Very dry palate, very bitter. Wild carbon.

Tried on 09 Aug 2018 at 17:56


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 33 cl. Pours an opaque black with a dense, creamy and lacing beige head. Nose has some citrus atop what seems like a coffee note. Medium body, kinda creamy smooth, subtle roast, some salmiakki and a roasty bitterness - all along with the hops fighting for some prominence on the side. Pity that Black IPAs have fallen out of fashion, some of them could be pretty neat. 010818

Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2018 at 14:18


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled 330ml
Opaque colour, good brownish head. Toasted aroma has some ash, piney hops and light lactic notes. Medium-bodied, a bit too much carbonation. Toasted, licorice flavour. Hops are mostly gone so this is more a stout. Quite typical midpack Finnish micro brew.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Dec 2017 at 13:52


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

How: Bottle.
Where: RBESG 17 Grand Tasting.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a tan head.
Aroma: Fruit, malt.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Malt, liquorice, some caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2017 at 10:53