Flying Puck Black IPA
Great Waters Brewing

This beer is served on cask and pours a dark brown color, with a nice whitish head and ample lacing on the glass. The brewer calls this a black IPA, and while not black in color, this has a nice mixture of hoppy and toasty flavors. One can taste piney hops, with a smidgen of citrussy hops, along with the aforementioned toasty, burnt chocolate flavor from the black malt. The mouthfeel is light and smooth. I think I could drink these all night long. This is a nice variation on the IPA style.

On cask at the brewpub: Dark tarnished brown, nearly black with a clearish body. Immensely thick top of tuffy, puffy, lightly tanned foam that hardly ever moves from its place. Lacing is sticky and textured in lots of inky strings.
Roasted malts were used to create the color, but not in the mash sequence, rather before that in a process of "Farbe"? malting, that apparently sucks the color out of the grain and not the flavors.

Nice aroma of Amarillo hops that signifies a bright hop resin thats favorably piney and lightly citric with a sweet toasty malty backing.

Taste is pretty interesting. Nicely soft, supple, and toasty with a tender sweetness in the front. Then the Amarillo hops kick in and make for a nice placement of seeping hop resin thats semi bittering and plenty citrusfied with a broadened, lengthy pull of lemon and orangeyness drawing out a nice hopy finish thats pleasant on the buds.

The feel is superb. Warm, fulfilling, soothing, soft, toasty, and wonderfully textured in a malt fluffy blanket stitched together well with hoppy Amarillo notes coating with a great balance and growing from there into the finish.

A very nice cask beer. Enjoyably warm, toasty, hoppy, and drinkable. One of the better beers to be had on cask in a while while at GW.