Jabberwocky
Triple fff Brewery in Four Marks, Hampshire, England 🏴
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.80
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All the attributes of an American IPA but it’s black. Do your eyes deceive you? Have you fallen down the rabbit hole? Take in the fresh pine hop aroma then savour the complex malt palate typical of an IPA but then come the subtle hints of dark chocolate and burnt toast to give the game away. This is not a heavy beer, but smooth and incredibly drinkable, a new beer style worthy of praise.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Cask at Kitty’s, 20130821) The beer poured almost black and clear. Its head was long lasting, medium sized and lightly brown. Aroma had pine, grass and roasted malts mildly in the background. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were pine, burnt malts, grass, liquorice, ash and bitterness. Afteraste was hoppy, burnt and bitter. The burnt malts were too much present in the taste but otherwise the beer was really good
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Aug 2013
at 09:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask gravity @ Bree Louise, Euston NW1. Pours a dark amber brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy caramel aroma with weak hints of licorice. Fuity malty hoppy bitter caramel and licorice flavor. Has a fuity malty hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Dec 2012
at 12:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm) Dark brown colour, almost black, with foamy beige head. Roasted, malty nose with coffee, chocolate, dark fruit and pine needles. Malty, roasted taste with notes of dark chocolate, dark fruit, dark rye bread and a generous piney bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Nov 2012
at 13:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask@Akkurat, Stockholm. Very deep coppery brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma is toffee, mild toasted notes, liquorice,some fruits and mild floral notes. Flavour is rather similar with a quite big bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Nov 2012
at 01:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Gravity dispense at Ascot Racecourse Beer Festival 2012 - 06/10/12. Dark mahogony brown with a thin tan head. Big pine nose allied to bitter grapefruit and hops. Hoppy piney taste with a little dark roast malt and chocolate in the background. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation leading to a dry finish. Another great black IPA from a British brewer!
Tried
on 07 Oct 2012
at 08:44
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask @ Akkurat. Pours dark brown, almost black, with a very small head that doesn’t leave any trace worth mentioning on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet, fruity and malty with dark bread, toasted malts, peaches, pineapple, freshly cut grass, earl gray tea and hints of coffee. Taste is tiny sweet, tiny sour and bitter with roasted malts, tropical fruit juice, grapes, pine, grapefruit juice, wood, pine, soap and liquorice root. Mouthfeel is smooth, tiny watery, flat and light to medium bodied. Finish is bitter and fruity with roasted malts, tropical fruits, pine, dark bread, moist soil, wood, lemon zest and orange zest.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2012
at 03:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Clear mahogany colour. Aroma of menthe and licorice - Fishermans Friend! Dry and medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Licorice and salt, mid bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Sep 2012
at 09:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask Gravity (Newport Ale House, Newport, Isle of Wight) - Black in colour. Liquorice, pine, grapefruit, roasted malt and plain chocolate in the aroma. Slightly soapy taste with salty liquorice, roasted malt and pine all standing out. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Sep 2012
at 14:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Nags Head, Reading. Pours a deep magohany with a chstnut gleam against the light and a loose, scummy, cream head; the aroma is deeply hoppy, but not as piney as promised; in the mouth it’s dry with a spicy hop flavour and underlying rich malts; with the hops carrying through to the end leaving a touch of liquorice on the finish. Good, but lacking the extremes of some Black IPAs.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Aug 2012
at 12:03