Pilot Series: Double Black IPA
Alaskan Brewing Company in Juneau, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.55
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The Black IPA, also called "Cascadian Dark Ale" or "American-style India Black Ale," is a relative newcomer to the craft beer world. We may not know what to call it yet, but we do know it’s dark and it’s hoppy and we can’t get enough of it.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
650 ml bottle purchased at Specs in Austin, TX. Bottle date of : 04 05 15. Deep black pour with massive head retention that coats the snifter. Aroma some bold roasted notes with a light pine.
Body is full with a stout- like density and creamy mouthfeel. Yeah baby, That’s what I’m talking about right here!
The malts have a deep roasted character with some smooth chocolate notes that ends with a nice lingering pine bitterness that ends with the chocolate flavor coming back around to the taste buds. Very well crafted! I think this scores top in style for my own palate.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Pours black, with a thick, creamy tan head. Caramel, chocolate, cola aroma. Taste is bitter, heavy dark chocolate malt, roasty...licorice, coffee. Sweet, followed by a long, resiny bitter. Really nice.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from the co-op. A dark brown pour, as expected, with a thick creamy tan head. Heavy roast in the nose along with citrus and pine. The roast is sharp and defined in the taste... pine and citrus ride along to keep the edges smooth. Still the hops to roast flavors get a little separated. Only a minor detriment. There is a faint off flavor that I can’t pinpoint, but associate with chalk and alcohol. Overall a good CDA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
This beer pours a dark brown color with a tinge of red around the edges, and a medium foamy tan head that diminishes gradually. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malt, pine and hops. Medium-bodied with flavors of roast malt, resiny hops and coffee. The finish is roasty coffee and malt up front with a lingering piney hops aftertaste. Good beer all around.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From bottle to tulip. Slight roast and perfume hop. Black with tan head. Taste is cocoa and slight citrus. Chalky aspects. A little milk as it warmed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Poured a pitch black with a light brown creamy head. The aroma is nice hops with roasted malts. Taste is an edgy hops bitter, little spice, and roasted maltiness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a dark, cola-black, with mid-sized, foamy, lasting head. Aroma of roasted grain, hops, citrus, coffee. Flavor is very appealing, a blend of hop bitterness, roasted coffee, chocolate, some citrus fruit, and a very smooth sweetness underlying things. This is slowly but surely becoming one of my favorite styles, and I think this is one of the best black IPAs I’ve tried.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
It pours a black but not pitch black; holding the glass to the light proves it. Never the less, it’s a very appealing beer to look at with it’s small but stubborn head of foam and the decent amount of lacing.
The smell is a super amount of grapefruit, very bitter as you can imagine but it has a pleasant spicy bitterness to it that smells like a coffee thing going on. What roasted malt brings to the table?
The taste confirms my suspicions; this Black Ale is all aboot grapefruit from the hops and coffee from the malt.
Medium body and carbonation.
Well, my overall thoughts are that this Black Ale is one tasty son of a gun. Worthy of a go if you see it on a shelf near you.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(tap) clear, very dark brown colour with a small, brown head; aroma of roast, stewed fruit; thick palate; rich, balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish; very nice
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Stamped in white at bottom right corner, says \"040515\", it’s a best by stamp, no worries.
This was poured into a snifter because it’s considered an imperial black ale.
The appearance was a pure black color with a soft off white to tan filmy head that dissipated within about a minute. Light lacing clung and slid adequately. The smell started off extremely piney and sharp in a bitter citrus department. As it warmed, a light sweet bitter and somewhat dark chocolate malt entered in lightly.
The taste was bittersweet - tried and true - all the way, nice sweet to bitter dark chocolate over top of a combined pine/citrus. Nice sweet and bitter chocolate to citrus aftertaste leading to a semi-dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was actually somewhat subdued, somewhat smooth.
Overall, honestly, this was a pretty good black ipa. I’d definitely have it again.