FF #13 - 2012 Double Black IPA
Arbor Ales in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.21
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Double Black IPA brewed for the Olympics - 2012 IBU!?!?!
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
33cl bottle from Bitter Virtue, Southampton. An opaque black pour with a ruby red glow against the light and a billowing tan head; the aroma is intense with bitter Belgian chocolate and a touch of wood smoke. It’s absolutely bursting with flavour - ripe purple fruit, licorice, burnt treacle, and tar setting the head ringing. The finish is comparitively calm, but full of toasty, deeply roasted malts and rather dry. This is incredibly satisfying and beats the Kernel Scanner Darkly Black IPA I’d just tried hands down.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2013
at 14:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a dark brown black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty hoppy licorice aroma. Roasted malty hoppy licorice and chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty hoppy licorice finish with weak piney hints.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2013
at 02:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty and light grapefruity hoppy. Bitter, grapefruity and dark roasted malty, dark chocolate to liqourice. Bitter and dry roasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2012
at 11:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and citrusy hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, chocolate, citrusy hops, and lemons, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2012
at 11:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours an almost opaque dark brown with a vague reddish hue and a small beige head. Sweet roasty nose with some greasy and citrusy hops blending in. Medium body, very bitter roast, very bitter - and greasy - hops. Charry and bitter finish. A little to the rough side. 301112
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2012
at 09:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pitch black beer with an incredibly strong light brown head. The aroma is fairly strongly roasted, and the flavour extremely bitter and espresso coffee roasted. What a good strongly roasted beer is all I can say.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2012
at 16:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml Bottle - Black with a foamy tan head. Liquorice, coffee, chocolate, roasted malt, soap and nuts int he aroma. Roasted, hoppy and fairly rich taste with coffee, chocolate, sweet liquorice and roasted malt detected. Some soapy hops can be felt in the lingering finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2012
at 07:56