Black IPA
Garrison Brewing Company

Black IPABlack IPA
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From:
Garrison Brewing Company
 
Nova Scotia, Canada
Style:
Black IPA
ABV:
6.2%
Score:
85
Avg:
3.78 | pDev: 11.9%
Reviews:
44
Ratings:
70
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
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Ratings by peensteen:
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Reviewed by peensteen from Canada (ON)

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, 2012
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.27 by Grogsky from Canada ()

Apr 03, 2016
 
Rated: 3.96 by gingerbread from Canada (NS)

Mar 11, 2015
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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
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, 2015
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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
Interesting but altogether to dry and lacking complexity
Feb 25, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by cam477 from Canada ()

Feb 21, 2015
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Reviewed 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
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, 2015
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Reviewed 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
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, 2015
 
Rated: 4.02 by SchoonerNS

Nov 28, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by DreamDeath from Canada (NB)

May 18, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by RevCraig from Canada (ON)

Apr 23, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by lgmol from Canada (NS)

Mar 21, 2014
 
Rated: 4.25 by Ivanhoes_Backpack from Canada (NB)

Mar 12, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by sclitch from Canada (AB)

Mar 28, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by timiskin from Canada (ON)

Mar 14, 2013
 
Rated: 3.75 by sdm9465 from Canada (NS)

Mar 05, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by DaPan from Canada (ON)

Feb 14, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by CurtisD from Canada (NB)

Jan 18, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by cfalovo97 from Canada (ON)

Nov 06, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by bcrocker from Canada (NS)

Oct 06, 2012
Black IPA from Garrison Brewing Company
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 70 ratings