6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled at the 2nd Annual Top of the Hops Charlottesville, VA beer festival, 9/10/11. Pours a hazy brown color with a thin head. Fair head retention. Aroma of floral, citrus and tropical hop notes with earthy malts. The taste is bitter metallic and earthy hops with a brown sugar finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
on 10 Sep 2011
at 19:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours dark brown/black color with light brown head. Aromas of roasted malts with lots of pine and citrus. Citrus and pine flavors up front with moderately sweet roasted malt finish. Medium body with average carbonation and a sticky mouthfeel. Their best brew I’ve had by a long shot. Excellent!
Tried
on 09 Sep 2011
at 11:55
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a very dark brown color with a medium creamy brown head. Decent head retention. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate and something faint that seems dirty and off. The taste is bitter hops, some roastiness in the finish and faint nuttiness. Medium bodied. A bit muddled and well off balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2011
at 19:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Flying Saucer Houston. Pours a very hazy burnt orange with a gray head that lasts throughout the beer and laces slightly. Aroma is full of citrus with some rind and grapefruit as well as a hint of flora. Flavor starts with sweet citrus, but has more rind and grapefruit for a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Sep 2011
at 15:14
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Blanchard’s, Allston 650ml ($5.50): Pours a black color with a tan head. Aroma is of roasted malts and plenty of citrus. Taste is very grapefruit hops, more so slanted in that direction than any other Black IPA, I’ve ever had. Kind of strange and perhaps is an intentionally unbalanced beer. In any case, I though it was drinkable enough.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2011
at 13:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle pours a nice looking mahogany with semi loose mocha head. The aroma offers up dark roasted coffee , dark roasted malts and chocolate as well as spicy and earthy hops in the background. The taste jumps at you all at once with a rolling and twisting mix of dark roasted coffee, spicy hops, resiny bitter pine hops, some chocolate and dark roasted to burnt malts. As the taste goes to midway and then toward the finish the highly roasted to brunt malts take over the flavor leaving timid levels of spicy and resiny hops and coffee behind mumbling to themselves in the corner. Nice stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2011
at 08:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
New 4 pack Black IPA, 8 dollars, yes please. Pours a solid black with a frothy creamy khaki head that sticks around forever a leaves lots of sticky lace. Smell is piney and citrusy with hints of garlic and a solid roasted grain backbone. Smells like a hoppy porter, but these two style lines are so blurry who the hell knows. Taste is roasted coffee with a mineral edge. Pine and citrus come out to cut through the roast and almost succeed. Mineral earthy roasty finish lingers after every sip. Moderate carbonation and body with a resinous acridic mouthfeel. Decent black IPA but really straddling the porter line with this one. I’m a bit disappointed that the artwork didn’t make it onto the 12oz bottle label, oh well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2011
at 19:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Vinens Verden, Odense. Pours hazy orange with a small creamy white head and lacings. Yeast and grapefruit. Weak spice - perhaps the yeast. Dry and very bitter flavor. Very clean. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2011
at 12:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Dark brown color, medium brownish head. Aroma of caramel malt, bit fruity, mocha, chocolat, lots of brown malt? Slight floral and citrussy hops. Slightly sweet, slightly roasted, quite malty, citrussy bitterness. Quite dry finish. Nice stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2011
at 12:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Half Time. Pours hazy dirty gold with a transient fizzy white head. Aromas of orange zest and spice. Med body. Flavor is lots of clove, lots of orange zest, and some sort of hop bitter. Not your lazy Wit. This one works hard on flavor. Refreshing. Very good.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2011
at 17:07