30th Anniversary Collaboration #1: Blacklight IPA
Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.68
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Blacklight IPA is a hop-forward, sessionable 4.2 percent ABV black ale with a heavy dose of five different hop varieties and stained black with cold-steeped dark malts. The beer focuses on big hop flavor and aroma, without the harsh bitterness and heavy roast that the beer’s dark color suggests.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at Cotteridge convention 05/03/2016. Picked up from Ledger’s Liquor Berkeley. A clear reddy mahogany brown coloured pour with a light tan head. Aroma is fresh pine, toasted pine, , little earth, nutty malts. Flavour is composed of toasted pine needles, little chocolate malts, berry fruit. Palate is semi sweet, light resinous hop, moderate carbonation. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Cotteridge Beano v2. Dark brown. Charred grapefruit. Lemon hop. Taste is bitter. Some roast. Light body. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at CWC II; dark brown pour with a creamy tan head, aroma has some pine resin, along with citrus and some chocolate, taste has dark roast malts, some pine, bitter chocolate, quite thin mouthfeel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at Cotteridge 2nd Annual. Deep ruby brown colour with a tan head. The aroma is roasted malts, grainy and pine with pithy orange. Taste is roasted malt with a touch of chocolate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From bottle at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014. Dark brown color with off white head. Roasted malty and hoppy aroma, licorice, pine, citrusy fruity, grapefruit. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared in London during Bruce’s going away drinks. Pours clear, deep red-brown with a creamy tan head. The nose holds roasted grains, light pine, toasted biscuits, nice orange rind. Light sweet flavor with ashy roast, light metal, earth, rind, some cocoa. Light in body with average carbonation. Dry and roasty on the finish, with scorched earth, dried citrus rind, more cocoa. Fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
15th April 2015
Craft Clerkenwell. Bruce’s UK Swan Song. Almost clear dark amber beer, tidy cream colour head. Berry fruits on the nose. Palate is airy and semi dry, modest fine carbonation. The dark malts bring just traces of roast and malt cream. Hops are mild pine with a trace of citrus. Light finish. Respectable but a bit light weight.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle thanks to Leighton. It pours clear deep brown with a bubbly off-white head. The nose is bitter-sweet, cola cubes, piney, roast, varnish, cocoa and candy. The taste is bitter-sweet, earthy roast, toasty, ash, pepper, cola, drying dirty wood and citrus rind with a dry finish. Light-medium body and moderate carbonation. Average cda action.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a dark, reddish, copper-brown, with medium-sized head. Aroma of hops and some malt. Flavor is a touch hoppy, with some malt. It really does taste like a light version of a black IPA, which is not something I really have much interest in--I’d much prefer one that goes all-in on the dark malt flavors, etc. This was kind of dull.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22oz bottle picked up at Total Wine in Spokane
Pours clear dark brown with a medium sized beige head, leaving lots of lacing. Aroma is tropical fruit, piney and bread. Flavor of toasted malts, fruity, chocolate and pine
A nice Black IPA