Bottled. A brown beer with a huge brown head. The aroma has notes of hops, fruits, and bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of chocolate, malt, caramel, and bread, leading to a bitter hoppy finish.

Bottled (NYC)
Dark Coca-Cola brown color, small steady beige head. Strong pine needles, resin and wood in the nose. Medium-bodied. Very resiny and pine woody flavor. Quite "green" black IPA by flavor. Not very balanced.

Bottle shared by Kabutomushi. Dark brown with ruby tints. Low head. Nose of licorice, citrus, grapefruit, chocolate. Chocolate malt flavor, with dirty earth nd light to medium citrus, licorice. Smooth, tasty, and original.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a super dense, seven centimetre tall light brown frothy head that lasts indefinitely. Aroma of caramel, roasted malt, coffee, licorice, rye and quite a bit of grapefruity hops. Medium to Full-bodied; Deep rye and strong malt flavour with a lot of pungent and grassy hops capped off with a strong, yet flavourful sweet caramel finish. Aftertaste shows a good balance of hops and malt, some alcohol notes, a little licorice and a good, somewhat strong black ipa. Overall, a nice beer for the style with the twist of using rye as the malt which makes for a much richer black ipa, but the balance (extra hops) is still spot on. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Manassas, Virginia on 19-January-2012 for US$2.99 sampled at home in Washingtonon 15-February-2012.

Pours a dark brown more akin to a port or nut brown ale. Smallish head. Aroma of hops and roasted grain. Flavor is a nice combination of hop bite and roasted malts and grains. Fairly smooth finish--not overly bitter.

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best by Jan 23, 2012. Pours crystal clear dark brown color with a nice 2 finger dense khaki head with great retention that reduces to a thick cap that lasts. Some nice soapy lacing on the glass as well. Aromas of caramel, grapefruit, pine resin, orange, chocolate, roasted malt, rye, bread, and some spicy hops. Nice and fairly well balanced aromas. Taste of huge caramel, biscuit, chocolate, rye, roasted malt, grapefruit, orange, pine, and spicy hops. Nice amount of bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of rye, biscuit, chocolate, roasted malt, and spicy hops on the finish for a bit. Medium carbonation and body; with a very nice creamy and slightly slick mouthfeel. Good balance of roasted malt presence and hop bitterness. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming after the finish. Very smooth drinking. Overall a damn nice black IPA. Great roasted malt flavor presence with a nice amount of hoppiness as well.

On tap. Pours with a hazed brown body and a small off-white head that produces good lace. Big roasted aroma, coffee, molasses, lightly green and fruity. Flavors are bitter, herbal, roast, sesame seeds, chocolate and a bit astringent. Roast forward. Medium to light carbonation.

2nd August 2011
GBBF Cask. Hazy gold beer, little suddy white head. Lifght semi dry palate. Little bit of honey in the malt. Nicely balanced sweetish hops. Apricot, peach, orange. Not too bitter. Semi dry finish. Nice! 3.6

10th August 2012
GBBF. Nice mild rye spice. A little toffee. Nice fruits - red berries with sherbetty strawberry. Subtle dark fruits. Semi dry finish with a nice rye aftertaste.

A dark reddish brown IPA with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, smooth floral hops with nutty caramel notes. In mouth, a pungent funky and meaty hops, with light nutty malt, very herbaceous, light chocolate, very nice. On tap at the Mellow Mushroom, Greensboro, August 14, 2011.