Duluth Black Ale
Fitger's Brewhouse
- From:
- Fitger's Brewhouse
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 4.4%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.26 | pDev: 30.98%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 02, 2012
- Added:
- Mar 30, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
4.27/5 rDev +31%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.27/5 rDev +31%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Well, we wanted to get this one out of the way, since I haven't found a 'black IPA' that I'm real fond of yet. Yeah. OK.
Pour is expected, weirdly black & expected to be hoppy, with vigorous carbonation. Smell gives me a roundhouse of hops, bitter, piney, full of flavor. OK. Intrigued. Ready to be let down.
Duluth Black Ale - this is the way a 'black IPA' ought to taste. Huge slapdash of hops up front, piney, aggressive, bitter, set off against a nice light backdrop of roasty, differently bitter malts. The marriage is one made by someone who understands a mash tun. Hops + roast have never played nice together for me to this extent, & this is great. Drinkable as all get out, sad to see the glass draining towards empty.
Category-breaker for me. This is hands-down excellent brew, far & away the best black ale I've sampled yet, & a session ale to boot. Gives me hope for the, ahem, style. Wonderful surprise.
Mar 30, 2012Pour is expected, weirdly black & expected to be hoppy, with vigorous carbonation. Smell gives me a roundhouse of hops, bitter, piney, full of flavor. OK. Intrigued. Ready to be let down.
Duluth Black Ale - this is the way a 'black IPA' ought to taste. Huge slapdash of hops up front, piney, aggressive, bitter, set off against a nice light backdrop of roasty, differently bitter malts. The marriage is one made by someone who understands a mash tun. Hops + roast have never played nice together for me to this extent, & this is great. Drinkable as all get out, sad to see the glass draining towards empty.
Category-breaker for me. This is hands-down excellent brew, far & away the best black ale I've sampled yet, & a session ale to boot. Gives me hope for the, ahem, style. Wonderful surprise.
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