Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
75 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted dark malty and chocolate. Bitter, dark roasted malty and light fruity barrel flavour. Smooth fruity, citric and dark malty. Lingering fruity and dark malty finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours an opaque pitch black with a dense light brown head. Hard roast aroma with a tart edge. Medium body, the woody tartness dominates atop the heavy roast. I don’t really pick up the dry hopping. Ends tart and somewhat oxidized. 180911
yespr (55501) reviewed B2 Bomber from Bridge Road Brewers 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
75 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is fruity and mild citrusy to grapefruity. Bitter, dark roasted malty, fruity and mild citric. Bitter, dry dark roasted malty and breadish. Bitter and fruity finish.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed B2 Bomber from Bridge Road Brewers 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. A pitch black beer with a huge dark brown head. The aroma has notes of chocolate and dark malts. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and roasted malt, as well as hints of ashes, leading to a dry roasted finish.
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed B2 Bomber from Bridge Road Brewers 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours a clear black with a a reddish hue and a light brown head. Roasty aroma. Medium body, sweet roastiness with a lightly tart edge, heavy carbonation, a subtle edge of phenols. Some chocolate appears late. More of a Porter than a Black IPA really. 180911
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours brown without much of a head.Nose shows nutty malt, caramel and some light fruit. Not particularly expressive.Flavours include loads of malt with caramel, bready and toasty character along with some soft spices and a fair whack of booze.Carbonation is pretty low.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours dark amber with a large head.Nose shows masses of fruity hops and sweet malt. Big honey, melon and peach blossom notes. Incredibly sweet smelling.Similar sweet, malty flavours, lots more caramel and cookie dough along with resinous, piny hops. A spicy/grassy noble character shows later, especially in the bold, sharp bitterness. Unfortunately that bitterness has an unpleasant, harsh metallic note to it.Could use carbonation.Seems to me like stella hops are great for aroma, but not so much for bittering....
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Growler. Gold with a modest white head. Aroma of passionfruit and grapefruit, light biscuit, some window-cleaner. Taste is full of fruits - passionfruit, melon with quite sharp grapefruit bitterness. Some white pepper at the end. Not really reminiscent of noble hops but somewhat restrained fruit salad character. Clinical but lovely hopshow. [3.7] A bit less vibrant in the bottle, but only -0.1.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Saison Noir from Bridge Road Brewers 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Growler. Black with a large tan head. Aroma of pears, tart apples mocha, pepper, vanilla. Taste is barely sweet with cocoa, coffee, pepper, pears, oranges, a little banana. Finish is a little roasty with some coffee and spices. If Black Saison is a thing, I guess this is one and not a porter. Quite interesting and pretty good. Very quaffable at 6.5%.
Davros (5279) reviewed B2 Bomber from Bridge Road Brewers 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours black ruby with a large tan head.Nose shows cocoa, roasted malt, piney hops and a tangy citrus character.Big roasty flavours up front, with lots of espresso, before transistioning to that tangy citrus and light fruit. Soft alcohol also shows.Pretty high carbonation.That acidic, tangy, citric character is obviously out of place, but otherwise good stuff.