Death to Summer
Alvarado Street Brewery in Monterey, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.98
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bb (18428) reviewed Death to Summer from Alvarado Street Brewery 11 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Black beer with a tan head. Chocolate and citrus aroma. Citrus and chocolate favor with herbal notes. Medium bodied. Citrus and light herbal notes linger with light caramel and light chocolate.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Death to Summer from Alvarado Street Brewery 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pint can pours with a deep dark colored body that supports a full semi loose tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up baker's chocolate, a dash of molasses, a bit of nutty coffee and really no hop aroma. OK. The taste delivers dry faintly bitter baker's chocolate, nutty dark roasted coffee, a malt sweetened burnt maltiness and then herbal, floral, woody to almost mint like hoppiness. Interesting. Another sip, after it has warmed a tad, reveals thin notes of tangelo to clementine citrus hop flavor that join the experience. This is pretty fun. CDA love.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured from a 16 oz can dated January 29, 2025.
Aroma is a bit muted but there is a balanced blend of hops and malt. Light alcohol notes. Herbal, woody and pine hop notes with some grapefruit pith and hints of berry. Toasted bread, crackers and hints of nuts and chocolate are also present from the malt.
Pours black with dark brown hues and a large, thick, pillowy, light mocha head that recedes slowly to a small head that lingers.
Flavor is somewhat sweet with moderate malt notes of cracker, toasted bread, nuts and roast. Fairly strong, assertive bitterness with light alcohol notes. Fairly strong piney, resin and woody hop notes. Some herbal hop notes along with hints of citrus. The piney, woody, herbal notes lingers in the finish.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth.
Overall, a decent black IPA but I prefer when they are black but otherwise drink like a regular IPA. This has roast and toast notes along with a touch more woody, herbal, piney hop character. It's not bad, but not what I prefer. I didn't realize this was a black IPA when I purchased it; that was my fault. Alcohol is well hidden and the hops and malt are nicely balanced and work well together.