Bottle @ home. Opaque black color, medium sized beige head. Aroma is quite faint, I expected dark malts and firm hoppiness. Instead what I get is just dark malts basically. Taste malts, dark malts, a bit dry and earthy and earthy malt bitter. Where are the hops? Good until March 2018 label says. I really don't like this as a Black IPA. To me it tastes more like a dry stout. Hmm ok. 6-4-7-3-12=3.2. -- But wait...I just finished the rating and almost finished the bottle and now some hops finally come through! Instantly makes it way better as a Black IPA.

Dark brown with khaki head. Aroma of raisins, sweet malts, sugar. Taste is very sweet, dried fruits, raisin, plum, medium bitterness, some red fruits, some light sour fruit juice, soft carbo, alcoholic, oak, toffee, caramel, nuts, soft earthly notes, sharp plastic, fenols, a bit off-balance --- Beer merged from original tick of Capricorn on 25 May 2018 at 16:18 - Score: 6

33cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Black, no head, flat as a pancake. Aroma of liquorice, molasses, roasted malts, some dark fruits. Flavour is sweet, fruity, sticky, molasses and liquorice. Medium bodied. Lacks a bit of depth of flavour imho.

Sampled at Dopey's Elixir. Hazy pale yellow color, small white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, hops, somewhat fruity hoppiness and slightly grassy. Moderate bitterness. Quite pleasant.

Keg at dopeys elixir. Pours orange, nose is lemon, toffee, herbal, taste is sweet, juicy lemon, toffee. --- Beer merged from original tick of Dopeys Elixir on 13 Oct 2017 at 08:18 - Score: 7

Keg at dopeys... Amsterdam September 2017.. Hazy amber.. Thin white lacing.. Soft floral orange fruits nose.. Bubble gum orange fruits

Tap. Hazy orange color with white head. Aroma is peach, milky yeasts, earthy, sorachi ace. Taste is peach, milky yeasts, dough, earthy. Silky mouthfeel, medium carbonation. Ok, it's a bit too muddled.

Hazy medium golden colour, small but steady frothy white head, light lacing. Aroma pale malts, tangerine, peach, herbal notes. Smooth taste, medium sweet and bitter, malty. Mild sweetbitter finish, herbal (juniper?) and dusty notes. Medium body, watery to oily texture, soft carbonation. Nice hoppy ale, well-made and easy to drink.

(Draught at Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 28 July 2017) Hazy golden yellow colour with frothy, white head, leaving traces of lacing. Fruity, malty nose with notes of bread, tropical fruit and hay. Fruity, malty taste with bread, tropical fruit, orange and a sweet finish with a balanced bitterness. Almost full body, with a certain sweetness.Tasty and well balanced. Quite nice.