Blacks Kinsale Brewery & Distillery

Microbrewery in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪
Associated Venue: Blacks Kinsale Craft Brewery

Established in 2013

Contact
Farm Ln, Knocknabohilly, Kinsale, Ireland
Description
Sam and Maudeline Black are a husband and wife team who started their brewing company Blacks Brewery in 2013. This venture/obsession first began many years ago when Maudeline gave Sam a beer making kit for Valentines Day. What started as a hobby quickly developed into an obsession and thus through Sam’s passion and enthusiasm Blacks Brewery became reality. Living the dream since 2013! In 2015 the Distillery was added. We are Ireland's first co-located micro brewery and Distillery.

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7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Very dark brown colour with a frothy tan head, good retention and lacing. Aroma: roasted malt, pine, slight coffee. Taste: roasted malts, pine, tropical fruit, coffee. Smooth mouthfeel, very bitter. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Decent.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2016 at 21:54

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50cl bottle from a trade with beersiveknown, many thanks Steve! Pours dark reddish brown colour with a huge mostly good lasting tan head. Aroma of sweet chocolate, vanilla and cacao. Taste of intense roasted and sweet malt, vanilla, espresso, cacao, delicious!
Tried from Bottle on 11 Oct 2016 at 15:44

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle at Aarhus tasting. Pours pale amber with a bubbly white head. Aroma is hoppy, fruit, caramel. Medium sweetness light bitterness and sourness. Medium body, oily texture. Fizzy mouthfeel.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2016 at 15:27

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Bottle @ Johns. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, light bread, light grassy, fruit. Flavor is light sweet, malt, bread, light fruity hops. Medium body, average carbonation. Needs more hops. 081016
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2016 at 14:26

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Aarhus tasting, my place. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, flowers, fruits, grass and hops. Light bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2016 at 14:26

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle, 5%. Clear golden with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruit and hops. Flavour is malt, fruit, hops, earthy, caramel, medium sweet and medium bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2016 at 14:25

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 081016
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2016 at 14:25

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from trade with beersiveknown. Pours a clear amber with foamy pale tan head. Aroma is caramel malts, earthy rye, faint tobacco. Taste is fairly light bodied with some bitter tobacco from the rye. Some hop shades. Decent Rye IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2016 at 13:57

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
330ml can from Beers of Europe. Pours clear golden amber with a thin white head. Aromas of resin, faint lime, caramel, dank. Taste is more caramel, cooked orange. Oily texture, sweet finish.
Tried from Can on 19 Sep 2016 at 10:47

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
3rd September 2016
Hazy gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light and mildly dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Thin malts, just a touch of sweetness and a whisper of grain. Mild hop spice, pine. Orange and orange peel. Mild tangerine. Light finish brings a little grapefruit. Pretty good.
Tried on 13 Sep 2016 at 11:11