Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Hopt. Aroma is roasted malt with chocolate, piney hops, orange, pine resin, some grapefruit and coffee. Flavour is moderate to medium sweet with a bitter finish. Body is medium. Yes, very nice BIPA, intense in both roasted chocolate malt and piney hops. More than solid!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Аромат сложный, немного винный, солодовый, на оттенке патока ну и конечно хмель. Цвет темно коричневый, без пены. Вкус горький, но сбалансированный. сильно ощущается патока и солодово-сладкие нотки как у барливайна. Послевкусие немного жженый от уже жареного солода, хмелевой. Также ощущается сильная продолжительная кислинка.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled@PBF XII. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is toffee, wood, herbs and mild earth with some ashy notes. Flavour is fruity, toffeeish, mild toasted notes with some slight ashes too.

Täitsa viisakas black ipa, korralikult röstine, humalane ja kohvine.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

I love a good black IPA every now and then and with one named after the Portuguese for 'abyss', what can go wrong? Voragem is apparently a double dry-hopped BIPA indeed, and considering how rare a truly good BIPA is, I was looking forward to tasting this one. Very thick and foamy, clearly hops-enhanced, pale yellow-beige, uneven-bubbled yet pillowy, plaster-lacing head crowning a very dark chocolate brown beer with chesnut brown edges - looking as good as black. Clearly hop-forward aroma of dried grapefruit peel, pine resin, toasted onion, charcoal, burnt bread crust, tonic water, wet leather, black pepper, black olives, caramel without the sweetness, autumn leaves, black tea, dry clay. Clean, dryish onset, burnt blackcurrants with a slight hint at dried fig, black olive and some vague dried porcini, medium carb, smooth and full, oily body; hop bitterness begins to 'sting' at an early stage, accompanying a hard-caramelly, toasted-walnutty and bitter dry bread-crusty maltiness with a clear coffeeish-roasted finish - but then this roastedness is overcome by a much stronger, very leafy, wormwoody, piney, grapefruit peel-like hop bitterness, which adds a resinous and peppery effect lasting for a long time. Some minerally notes linger in the end, along with a blood-like iron touch. I had many European attempts at Cascadian dark ale or BIPA because I tend to pick them out, and mostly they taste just like well-hopped stouts or porters; this one, however, does is absolutely right and begins and ends as an IPA, with this roasted stout effect playing only in the middle. Voragem tastes like an old-fashioned West Coast IPA painted black - I have more old school IPA assocations here than stout associations, and that for me typifies a successful black IPA. I was not expecting it from this Portuguese craft brewery (though of course I know that they are accomplished enough), but this may well be the most 'typical', most classically styled, most 'American' black IPA I ever had that was brewed on the old continent. Countless European craft brewers should use this one as a template for their BIPAs and believe, this is a genre which has fascinated me for years so I think I am sufficiently qualified to judge here. Parabéns, Mean Sardine!

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

bottle from hopt. dark brown, light brown head. roasted malty and very hoppy. also slightly fruity notes, but not dominant. faint chocolate. so a fairly complex and full black ipa aroma. flavor is roasted malty, flowery hoppy almost fruity balance, roasted malty aftertaste. A dark ipa that has a few unusual flavor notes, it's like the beer is a little bit futher towards ipa than black, compared to most black ipa. sort of like 45% ipa 50% black porter, 5% belgian blonde.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

33 cl bottle poured into a Tulip. Near black with a thin lightly tanned head. Fruity aroma with citrus, toasted notes, tropical impressions and dark malts. Coffee. Taste is bitter. Medium bodied. Dry and roasted bitter finish. Nice textbook BIPA.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330 ml bottle. Murky black, big creamy fluffy head. A lot of pine, roasted burnt malt and breadcrumbs, ashes, bitter herbs and roots, grapefruit zest. Hoppy roasty bitterness, slightly sweet. Full bodied, oily texture, soft carbonated, intense bitter finish. A very good example of a more or less disregarded beer style.