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Blakkr
Real Ale Brewing Company
- From:
- Real Ale Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
Ranked #21 - ABV:
- 9.99%
- Score:
- 91
Ranked #7,189 - Avg:
- 4.08 | pDev: 10.29%
- Reviews:
- 30
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 18, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 22, 2014
- Wants:
- 17
- Gots:
- 32
This is the 12oz canned Real Ale version.
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Reviewed by dbean3 from Texas
4.36/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Great black ale. Real Ale brewery puts outs some really great beers. This is one of them. Also, try their Devil's Backbone. You won't be disappointed. It's my favorite from this brewer.
Jun 18, 2023Reviewed by Thomas_Wikman from Texas
4.1/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.1/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Look: black with mocca colored head
Aroma: roasted malts, grapefruit
Flavor: roasted malts, chocolate, grapefruit and then a grapefruit rind like bitterness.
Body/overall: medium body, delicious
Nov 08, 2022Aroma: roasted malts, grapefruit
Flavor: roasted malts, chocolate, grapefruit and then a grapefruit rind like bitterness.
Body/overall: medium body, delicious
Reviewed by elNopalero from Michigan
4.73/5 rDev +15.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.73/5 rDev +15.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
From a can.
Six weeks old on the night before Halloween, 2021. Seems fitting.
Pours as expected, cola-coffee black with pillowy foam.
French roast/grapefruit peel/pine tree on the nose and sip. There’s a long, lingering finish, with almost a creamy smooth feel, and it only gets better as it opens. Wish I had a second bottle.
Jan 12, 2022Six weeks old on the night before Halloween, 2021. Seems fitting.
Pours as expected, cola-coffee black with pillowy foam.
French roast/grapefruit peel/pine tree on the nose and sip. There’s a long, lingering finish, with almost a creamy smooth feel, and it only gets better as it opens. Wish I had a second bottle.
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
4.21/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a bomber into a snifter
Appearance – The beer pours a deep cola brown color with a one finger head of brownish foam. The head slowly fades over time to leave a good sum of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is big of a roasted malt smell mixed with tons of pine and some herb. Along with these smells comes a very light caramel and molasses sweetness as well as a little bit of a grapefruit smell.
Taste – The taste begins a drier roasted malt taste that has a great hit of pine and herb hop right from the start. Some coffee and a little bit of molasses and brown sugar are upfront, but the sweeter tastes rather rapidly fade away, drying out the taste profile even more. At the same time the roastiness dwindles a little bit all while the pine and herb get even stronger, giving a nice hop hit. At the very end a little bit of a char comes to the tongue, and with the increase in the dank hop, it leaves one with a nice roasted and danked taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the slightly thicker and chewier side with a carbonation level that is lower. For the dark and dank tastes the feel is rather awesome and makes for one nice snifter sipper.
Overall - A nice dank and roasted but very balanced black IPA. This is some good stuff and a brew I would certainly recommend to at least try.
Sep 30, 2020Appearance – The beer pours a deep cola brown color with a one finger head of brownish foam. The head slowly fades over time to leave a good sum of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is big of a roasted malt smell mixed with tons of pine and some herb. Along with these smells comes a very light caramel and molasses sweetness as well as a little bit of a grapefruit smell.
Taste – The taste begins a drier roasted malt taste that has a great hit of pine and herb hop right from the start. Some coffee and a little bit of molasses and brown sugar are upfront, but the sweeter tastes rather rapidly fade away, drying out the taste profile even more. At the same time the roastiness dwindles a little bit all while the pine and herb get even stronger, giving a nice hop hit. At the very end a little bit of a char comes to the tongue, and with the increase in the dank hop, it leaves one with a nice roasted and danked taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the slightly thicker and chewier side with a carbonation level that is lower. For the dark and dank tastes the feel is rather awesome and makes for one nice snifter sipper.
Overall - A nice dank and roasted but very balanced black IPA. This is some good stuff and a brew I would certainly recommend to at least try.
Reviewed by imnodoctorbut from Texas
4.6/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.6/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
hail Blakkr. this brew was rad.
bomber dated Sept 9, 2020
ecstatic to see this grace the shelves once more to conjure the old gods of Pine hop and chocolate plastered malt back to our realm
blackened cola body with toasted cream head of foam that has moderate retention and leaves sticky patchy lacing as it settles to a murky cap with defined but uneven ring
coffee roasted malt with pine blast aroma announces the old gods arrival
taste is roasted malt with doses of subtle sweet chocolate and dark stone fruit with coffee bean and earthy bitter pine hop. chewy molasses oozing with resinous caramel pine sticks to the soul
moderately high carbonation with medium body and a pleasant dry finish that lingers
overall:
the secret here is the mouthfeel and aftertaste...this brew absolutely sticks the landing by complimenting the essence of the taste that is (as i said earlier) chewy molasses oozing with resinous caramel pine that sticks to the soul. the dry finish here is very subtle and elevates the chewy resinous body without coming down harsh with an abrasive amount of dryness - something I usually crave, but is thankfully not here with this particular "IPA"
darkness peppered by a pine forest, a near-moonless night above and campfire smoke in the distance is the image here.
beautiful.
Aug 11, 2020bomber dated Sept 9, 2020
ecstatic to see this grace the shelves once more to conjure the old gods of Pine hop and chocolate plastered malt back to our realm
blackened cola body with toasted cream head of foam that has moderate retention and leaves sticky patchy lacing as it settles to a murky cap with defined but uneven ring
coffee roasted malt with pine blast aroma announces the old gods arrival
taste is roasted malt with doses of subtle sweet chocolate and dark stone fruit with coffee bean and earthy bitter pine hop. chewy molasses oozing with resinous caramel pine sticks to the soul
moderately high carbonation with medium body and a pleasant dry finish that lingers
overall:
the secret here is the mouthfeel and aftertaste...this brew absolutely sticks the landing by complimenting the essence of the taste that is (as i said earlier) chewy molasses oozing with resinous caramel pine that sticks to the soul. the dry finish here is very subtle and elevates the chewy resinous body without coming down harsh with an abrasive amount of dryness - something I usually crave, but is thankfully not here with this particular "IPA"
darkness peppered by a pine forest, a near-moonless night above and campfire smoke in the distance is the image here.
beautiful.
Reviewed by Pegasus from Texas
3.9/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Appearance: Deep black in color, impenetrable to light, with a massive, dense, and somewhat coarse light tan head, with superb retention. Fantastic Belgian-style lacing adorns the glass wall.
Aroma: A surging wave of hops greets the senses, and overshadows everything else, the malt, and the alcohol. Try as I might, all that the aroma conveys is a massive wave of pine and grapefruit hops. There is perhaps a hint of dark malt in the aroma, no more than that, at least for me.
Taste: Opens with a massive wave of pine and grapefruit hops, with the balance towards the latter, there is a bit of bittersweet coffee, and modest dark malt presence, but both are overshadowed by the staggering hop presence. The relatively high ABV of 8.5 percent fails to make itself known, other than by some modest warming. Late in the taste, there is a bit of burnt malt. Finishes with a strong and long-lasting note of grapefruit rind and pine.
Mouth feel: Smooth and very full, with just a hint of delicate carbonation.
Drinkability/notes: Massively hoppy, so much so that the rest of Blakkr's characteristics are utterly subsumed. If you are seeking a hop bomb, Blakkr is for you.
Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce brown glass bomber bottle, with a pry-off crown, served in a Save the World Brewing teku.
Jul 19, 2020Aroma: A surging wave of hops greets the senses, and overshadows everything else, the malt, and the alcohol. Try as I might, all that the aroma conveys is a massive wave of pine and grapefruit hops. There is perhaps a hint of dark malt in the aroma, no more than that, at least for me.
Taste: Opens with a massive wave of pine and grapefruit hops, with the balance towards the latter, there is a bit of bittersweet coffee, and modest dark malt presence, but both are overshadowed by the staggering hop presence. The relatively high ABV of 8.5 percent fails to make itself known, other than by some modest warming. Late in the taste, there is a bit of burnt malt. Finishes with a strong and long-lasting note of grapefruit rind and pine.
Mouth feel: Smooth and very full, with just a hint of delicate carbonation.
Drinkability/notes: Massively hoppy, so much so that the rest of Blakkr's characteristics are utterly subsumed. If you are seeking a hop bomb, Blakkr is for you.
Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce brown glass bomber bottle, with a pry-off crown, served in a Save the World Brewing teku.
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.32/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.32/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Poured into a tulip (because I treated this as an imperial version of this style), it had a nice thick black color topped with a nice shade of brown foam leveling out nice and straight. This slowly slid off to leave some messy lace, not so sticky/mainly sliding with the sips.
The aroma had a huge roasty coffee bean character flowing very nicely through hop resin/piney bitterness and citrus rind. Dark chocolate opened up more with some warmth.
The flavor moderated between roast and bitter pine/citrus rind. Some dark chocolate came through but that was pretty much like the aroma (super subtle). Sly aftertaste of roast/ash, citrus rind and subtle pine.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sipping quality about it. Good carbonation and enough grip running some "harsh" feels on my tongue. Strong roasty finish with some dark toast, dark chocolate and pulled pine needles.
Overall, nicely done American black ale, well worthy of coming back to especially that this is an imperial version! This'll definitely make well for cold winter nights!
Oct 09, 2019The aroma had a huge roasty coffee bean character flowing very nicely through hop resin/piney bitterness and citrus rind. Dark chocolate opened up more with some warmth.
The flavor moderated between roast and bitter pine/citrus rind. Some dark chocolate came through but that was pretty much like the aroma (super subtle). Sly aftertaste of roast/ash, citrus rind and subtle pine.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sipping quality about it. Good carbonation and enough grip running some "harsh" feels on my tongue. Strong roasty finish with some dark toast, dark chocolate and pulled pine needles.
Overall, nicely done American black ale, well worthy of coming back to especially that this is an imperial version! This'll definitely make well for cold winter nights!
Blakkr from Real Ale Brewing Company
Beer rating:
91 out of
100 with
261 ratings
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