Blackadder CDA
Rock Bottom Yorktown in Lombard, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.74
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster, then Mug Club draft @ RBY. Dark brown like a porter, with a full head of foam that clings for a while to the sides of a glass like an old lover who can’t say goodbye. I came into RBY at lunch hoping they’d a nice citrussy IPA handy, and this called out to me. Aroma offers whiffs of orange hop, then deep beer malts. Taste-wise, the malts are not bitter, they’re even smoother than some commercial schwartzbiers I’ve had. The hops are gentler on the palate than in the nose: still some orange, but more of a zest than the occasional sour or bitter of citrus fruit. The hops keep any coffee flavor claimed for the malts back, but the net effect is a dark beer with a warm roasty character, that I enjoyed more as I swigged the rest of the mug. They have had this on cask, but I missed it. It may come back later.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Dec 2010
at 11:40