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Pitch Black
Lost Nation Brewing
- From:
- Lost Nation Brewing
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
Ranked #110 - ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #20,907 - Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 9.55%
- Reviews:
- 20
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 22, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 08, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 9
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by ANIMOUL from Vermont
4.18/5 rDev +10.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +10.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a 16 oz can into a pint glass; can't read birth date. Pours black with three fingers worth of foam head that slowly recedes. Excellent retention. Slightly smokey with good balance of burnt, chocolate malt with equally bitter hops on the back end. I'm biased to any smoke beers.... so me like this alot
Dec 22, 2022Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.93/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Canned on 9/1/20; consumed on 1/10/21
Pours a clean black body with subtle mahogany hues and topped with two fingers of dense, fluffy, pale tan foam; solid head retention yields a quarter-finger of fluffy cap, an expansive, creamy collar, and a generous spread of thin, webby lacing strewn around the walls of the glass.
Aroma bursts with notes of fresh smoked ham upfront, only interrupted slightly by a tinge of malty roast and black bread; minerality eases into a hint of campfire smoke over the middle as semi-sweet tones of bakers chocolate and burnt toffee appear on the close.
Taste follows the bouquet, this time with a softer smoked ham upfront and soon followed with an array of heavily roasted malts; a suggestion of campfire smokes remains delicate over the mid-palate before transitioning to a lighter coffee tone; milk chocolate and ashy char are quelled slightly with floral hops into a more bittersweet bakers chocolate finish.
Mouthfeel provides a balanced, medium body sporting moderate carbonation phasing cleanly into a delicately slick mid-palate while a mild, charry grit grows into the back end; the finish is level in a pillowy robustness, and surprisingly clean.
This is a comprehensively enjoyable and easy-drinking brew with a basic yet well-conceived malt profile and supportive hop balance accentuating an overarching smoke; a mild identity crisis in style assuaged through a consummate delivery of consumable nuance.
Jan 11, 2021Pours a clean black body with subtle mahogany hues and topped with two fingers of dense, fluffy, pale tan foam; solid head retention yields a quarter-finger of fluffy cap, an expansive, creamy collar, and a generous spread of thin, webby lacing strewn around the walls of the glass.
Aroma bursts with notes of fresh smoked ham upfront, only interrupted slightly by a tinge of malty roast and black bread; minerality eases into a hint of campfire smoke over the middle as semi-sweet tones of bakers chocolate and burnt toffee appear on the close.
Taste follows the bouquet, this time with a softer smoked ham upfront and soon followed with an array of heavily roasted malts; a suggestion of campfire smokes remains delicate over the mid-palate before transitioning to a lighter coffee tone; milk chocolate and ashy char are quelled slightly with floral hops into a more bittersweet bakers chocolate finish.
Mouthfeel provides a balanced, medium body sporting moderate carbonation phasing cleanly into a delicately slick mid-palate while a mild, charry grit grows into the back end; the finish is level in a pillowy robustness, and surprisingly clean.
This is a comprehensively enjoyable and easy-drinking brew with a basic yet well-conceived malt profile and supportive hop balance accentuating an overarching smoke; a mild identity crisis in style assuaged through a consummate delivery of consumable nuance.
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.76/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.76/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
The appearance was a black color with a bar pour’s kind of head (rating adjusted accordingly). The smell had some roasty chocolatey malts with some coffee beans. There’s a nice sweet chocolatey aftertaste running into the finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in the body with a nice sessionable feel to it. Carbonation runs good as a Porter. I’d have again, good stuff, but not a Black IPA.
Jun 11, 2017
Pitch Black from Lost Nation Brewing
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
155 ratings
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