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Black IPA
Garrison Brewing Company
- From:
- Garrison Brewing Company
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 11.9%
- Reviews:
- 44
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 03, 2016
- Added:
- Jan 25, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
Holy hybrid, this legendary hop-forward style goes dark and deep with the addition of a big, roasted malt base. Dry-hopped and Unfiltered, don’t overthink this beast, just enjoy.
52 IBU
52 IBU
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Ratings by peensteen:
Reviewed by peensteen from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Near black with some ruby highlights, one finger of tan head, fair bit of lacing on the glass. Smell is of roasted malt and bittersweet chocolate, orange, citrus and pine, fairly hoppy stuff, some nice coffee and milk chocolate show up behind the huge roast and hop bill. Taste is initially roasty and chocolatey, espresso flavours come through, hops make their way in towards the middle, lots of citrus and pine with a moderate bitterness, bittersweet and roasty flavours in finish with a long dry aftertaste. Medium carbonation, dry, medium to full body, medium weight. Pleasantly drinkable and would have this again, one of the roastier black ipa's I have come across so far, fairly solid stuff.
Jan 25, 2012More User Ratings:
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.82/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a dark copper brown with two fingers of creamy tan head.
Smell - citrus and piney hops, bready roasted caramalts, pine resin, and tropical fruits.
Taste - Starts off with the citrus and piney hops then goes into the bready roasted caramalts, pine resin, and tropical fruits.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes with a lingering bitterness from the hops and the caramalts.
Overall - An easy drinking Black IPA. The hop and malt profile are done well in this one but the aromas lacked. Perhaps some dry hopping may help the smell be more true to the style. A worthy go if you are fan of the style. Nice to see a new offering from Garrison out in Cowtown.
Feb 26, 2015Smell - citrus and piney hops, bready roasted caramalts, pine resin, and tropical fruits.
Taste - Starts off with the citrus and piney hops then goes into the bready roasted caramalts, pine resin, and tropical fruits.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes with a lingering bitterness from the hops and the caramalts.
Overall - An easy drinking Black IPA. The hop and malt profile are done well in this one but the aromas lacked. Perhaps some dry hopping may help the smell be more true to the style. A worthy go if you are fan of the style. Nice to see a new offering from Garrison out in Cowtown.
Rated by Canuck_j from Canada (AB)
2.97/5 rDev -21.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 3.25
2.97/5 rDev -21.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 3.25
Interesting but altogether to dry and lacking complexity
Feb 25, 2015Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I am a big fan of this style of beer, so I was thrilled to find this on the shelf in my local bottle shop. This rendition is hearty, hoppy, and a bit rough around the edges. The coffee, dark chocolate and roasted malt all work well together. I found this quite bitter, which is not a bad thing, just harder on the palate.
Feb 19, 2015Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, the newest arrival from the East Coast in Alberta (beer-wise, that is!)
This beer pours a sediment-strewn, dark red-brick amber colour, with one skinny finger of meekly puffy, and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some bent coral reef lace around the glass as things slowly ebb away.
It smells of bready, doughy, and lightly-roasted caramel malt, buttered biscuits, a mild hard water flintiness, and herbal, piney, and damp earthy hops. The taste is quite in line with the aroma - sweet grainy, meaty caramel malt, wan butterscotch, wet stone paths after the rain, an understated dank ashiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney hops.
The bubbles are fairly chipper in their tightly-rendered frothiness, the body a sturdy medium weight, and more than a tad clammy in its otherwise genial smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the faintly toasted caramel holding fast, while the hops start their long swirl around the proverbial drain.
Kind of an English-seeming take on the 'American' black ale, it would seem - both the char and the hops restrained as if by design. At any rate, still a weird collusion of styles, an unnecessary collision of worlds, one that just isn't getting any easier to drink. But if you like it, then this is worth trying, I suppose.
Feb 19, 2015This beer pours a sediment-strewn, dark red-brick amber colour, with one skinny finger of meekly puffy, and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some bent coral reef lace around the glass as things slowly ebb away.
It smells of bready, doughy, and lightly-roasted caramel malt, buttered biscuits, a mild hard water flintiness, and herbal, piney, and damp earthy hops. The taste is quite in line with the aroma - sweet grainy, meaty caramel malt, wan butterscotch, wet stone paths after the rain, an understated dank ashiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney hops.
The bubbles are fairly chipper in their tightly-rendered frothiness, the body a sturdy medium weight, and more than a tad clammy in its otherwise genial smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the faintly toasted caramel holding fast, while the hops start their long swirl around the proverbial drain.
Kind of an English-seeming take on the 'American' black ale, it would seem - both the char and the hops restrained as if by design. At any rate, still a weird collusion of styles, an unnecessary collision of worlds, one that just isn't getting any easier to drink. But if you like it, then this is worth trying, I suppose.
Black IPA from Garrison Brewing Company
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
70 ratings
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