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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Bottle: Poured a dark brown with red hints, head is finger frothy light brown head. Aroma is nice fruity citrus hops. Taste is nice strong citrus and fruity hops, melds well with rugged roasted malts.
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Bottle split on the hotel patio, SD, from Widmer pub PDX 14/11/14. Light black with a decent light tan covering that retains well. Nose is light roast, charr, red berry snap, pine, grapefruit. Taste comprises dank hops, pine, bitter grapefruit, light charr, roasted tones, Benna berry. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid enough CDA.
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Medium brown, chocolate and pine nose, has a toasty character, complex dark malts and lots of bitterness.
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dark brown to black appearance. very thin looking roasty pine cone woodiness aroma. Hmm. intense hop taste. I actually like the balance. pine and tropical fruits. sugary but nice mouthfeel.
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22 oz. bottle, dirty brown/ black color with a thin ring of head. Aroma is light roasted malt, earthy coffee grounds, and light grapefruit.
I enjoy the texture of the beer, slightly creamy with the body on the lighter thin side. Flavor starts with coca, old coffee, light notes of pine and grapefruit. Lightly lingering bitterness. Overall kind of a different style, don’t you want a Black IPA to have some body and depth? It’s still pretty drinkable.
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On tap at Widmer, pours a dark copper brown with a small beige head. Aroma smells very English-style, with biscuity malt and very mild English hops. Flavour is very restrained and mild, with an interesting mix of hop varieties. Very light and sessionable. Pleasant but boring.
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Bottle 22fl.oz. [ As Widmer / Boneyard Blacklight IPA ].Light unclear medium to dark brown amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, roasted, grapefruit, citrus. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140503]
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Bottle. Very dark brown with small head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, hop and pine. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, hop, pine, medium bitter, little grapefruit and medium sweet.
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Lighter version of a black IPA, nice light body with some smooth roast grains and hop bitterness. Session black?