7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can. Jet black colour with average to huge, thick, creamy, moderately to mostly lasting, decently lacing, beige head. Sweet-ish, citrusy fruity and chocolately dark malty aroma, notes of mandarine, orange, a touch of marmalade, hints of orange-infused dark chocolate, orange jelly bears; somehow all flavours seem to be cautiously lactose and vanilla supported. Taste is sweet, fruity hoppy and chcocolately dark malty, hints of dark chocolate, chocolate cookies with aspects of vanilla and coconut, hints of red berries, strawberry in particular, mandarine and orange as well, a touch of lactose sugar. Creamy texture, smooth and soft palate, fine and soft carbonation. Not free from artificial aspects, in a way not hoppy enough for the IPA entitlement, simultaneously too sweet and mellow representing that Black IPA category - not a bad beer, well-understood; but too much a sweet and mellow, candy floss-like, flattering, fair attraction than a dispute between bitter rivals like roasted malt and bitter hops or seemingly irreconcilable adversaries like chocolate and citrus.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2020
at 22:03