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Monaca, PA, United States 🇺🇸 Member
Retired American Luddite and refugee of the 2018-2024 Ratebeer/Anheuser-Busch (InBev) fiasco. Thanks Brewver for the chance to continue rating! ....... and yes, I'll soon be a supporter! ........ Since 1968, I've enjoyed all kinds of cheap macro pale lagers, starting with Carling Black Label bottles I found in Grampa Gino's wine cellar! Later, my dad had faves like Old Mil, Strohs, Bud, Coors Light and Piels! They were all good for a budding youngster like me. My ratings aren't to style, but how much I liked it. Thus, my fave styles; lambic, wild & flemish, rate much higher than IPA since I don't like bitter hoppy beers. You like IPA? The lower my IPA rating, the better according to style! There, you have it! Easy peezy, no worries!

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5.1/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 6 Flavor 3.5 Texture 3 Overall 5
Wow, I'm glad this is a dark IPA, I find them just a little more tolerable than a straight up IPA of various styles. Pour is a beauty, like stout or porter. Nice tannish head that fades rapidly. Nose is mild IPA but with a mild dark hint on the olfactory. First taste is certainly IPA, but it has this dark attitude about it. Yes the IPA bitterness is not in yer face and much of the bitter aspect seems to come from the roasted darkness. But hey, it may be just my dark beer mind playing tricks on me, hehehh. Yea really, bitter yes, but not rude ass IPA bastardly bitter LoL. I've actually tasted some other dark beer styles that were significantly more bitter than this, fer sher. It even has a good level of co2 that helps me forget this is IPA based. Not as good as Beaver Brewing I.Porter.A, Upland Komodo Dragonfly Black IPA or even Full Pint Deuce India Brown Ale; but its pretty considerably good by my standards for an IPA!
Tried from Can from Vintage Estate Wine and Beer on 10 Jun 2026 at 17:21

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 4.5 Texture 2 Overall 4.5
Can pours clear reddish orange brown 231. Very little head, just some pond skum. Quite sweet on the nose, with an addition feel of ropey leather character on the olfactory. Very malty taste on the uptake, some sweetness breaking thru. Easy manners yet the sweetness gets on my nerves a bit. Just maybe some earthiness comes thru in the middle. Some odd leather and perhaps a touch of peat mixing with the sweetened malt. Sweetness at the end of every gulp. Not enough to be cloying, but certainly more than is needed. Hides its 6% very well.
Tried from Can from Vintage Estate Wine and Beer on 09 Jun 2026 at 17:19

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4.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 4
Can for 2.25$ at vintage estate. Pour is quite black brown with a very thin blanket for a head. I can see some dark red maroon rays of light peaking thru. Nose is strong black coffee, this is gonnah be a wake up call. First taste is also simple black coffee with no carbonation to speak of. Just one question; where is the porter? In the middle, can't even really tell there is any alky in this. Bold intense bitter roasted coffee liquid. Can't find any dark chocolate but it does show signs of a heavy earthiness. Starting to get some effects of soft co2. On the finish, I do think I'm getting a small sense of alky in there, but you'd never know its over 6%. This brew is totally one sided; bitter black coffee that may have set in a diner coffee pot on a burner for a while. There, you have it. Got a long way to go to get as good as Market Garden Midnight Vorlauf Coffee Porter or even Narragansett Autocrat Coffee Milk Stout.
Tried from Can from Vintage Estate Wine and Beer on 08 Jun 2026 at 17:31

5.5/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
From a cheap two buck can. This stuff pours clear pale with no head. Node is very light sweeter apple cider. Taste is apple cider mostly and yes a little sweet. Certainly not dry LoL. Now I'm getting some vanilla in the backdrop. Good level of carbonation. Maple getting stronger as the session continues. Maple begins to show and vanilla is really getting apparent. Not as sweet as that woodchuck stuff, but its getting there. Different. Just a little worried about how the sugar will affect my beer gut.
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 07 Jun 2026 at 21:02

4.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 1 Overall 4.5
2$ bottle. Pour has no nitro head action at all. Yes peanut butter nose, fairly pleasant aroma. Very blackish brown. Peanut butter all the way on the first taste, can't find any stout in there. Completely flat of course. Probably should be styled as a pastry stout. I liked the non nitro version much better. Not only did it feel better with carbonation but the flavor was so much better as well. That one tasted like a real peanut butter chocolate cup. This one? Oh well.
Tried from Bottle from Chalet Premier on 06 Jun 2026 at 18:26

5/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 6 Flavor 4.5 Texture 2 Overall 4
2$ bottle. Nice black pour, very little head, immediately fades to nil. Nose is a giveaway to sweet milk stout. Medium strong initial roasted oatmeal stout taste. Bitter semi-sweet baking chocolate and maybe some mild coffee. A little strong and boozy, yet retains the stout experience without getting too much of that imperial aspect in it. Finishes with some molasses and dried whisky soaked fruit. Somewhat mouth coating feel in the end.
Tried from Bottle from Chalet Premier on 04 Jun 2026 at 17:23

3.8/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
Bottle for 2 bucks at chalet. Pour is hazy medium brown, decent foamy off white head. Nose is very light; maybe some off fruit, not sure, otherwise rather odorless. First big swig reveals some mild bitterness, perhaps some dried fruit in there. As session continues, bitterness gets a tad phenolic in nature. Yes, even takes on a mild sharp astringent aspect in the background. Decent co2 level, softer mild carbonation, could use more. Tolerable but has a way to go to meet up with Bullseye Stone Pub ESB, McNeill's Extra Special Bitter or even Wychwood Hobgoblin Ruby. More on par with Southern Tier Harvest, Fuller's ESB and London Pride.
Tried from Bottle from Chalet Premier on 03 Jun 2026 at 17:44

2.9/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 6 Flavor 1 Texture 2 Overall 1
Cheap can from chalet. Pour is hazy pale with an orange tint. Nice head fades to a thin sheet. Very mild hop perfume aroma. First taste is IPA all the way and you know what that means; must I say it? Bitter? Has a ropey somewhat fruit background riding in there. Maybe some leather too, hiding in the background. Some mild co2 in there but that does not distract from the terribly on style flavor. A little rude at times, as the session continues, I swear the bitter intensity swells. Yea, what else can be said? Its a typical crude rude IPA, they all practically taste the same and there are a zillion of them out there. You like the style? Don't pass it up, its cheap and its good as ther rest.
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 02 Jun 2026 at 17:35