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B Space Invader
Birra Toccalmatto
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- From:
- Birra Toccalmatto
- Italy
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 11.44%
- Reviews:
- 8
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 12, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 19, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
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Reviewed by dcmchew from Romania
3.82/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.82/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Pours black with a huge fluffy tan head, really compact and slowly receding. Really slow.
Roast and chocolate jump first on the nose, bitter citrus after that (grapefruit, lime), also some pine, some floral hops too. Kinda 60/40.
Hops welcome you in the taste, really fruity, big emphasis on citrus (lots of orange, lemon, pomelo) but also some peach and faint plum. Some chocolate, not too strong, otherwise a big floral/herbal feel, something like ribwort syrup and hints of cola. Roast only towards the finish, kept at bay by nice piney hops with a decent, but not too big, bitterness.
Aftertaste has some ash (almost sulphur?!), cocoa powder, bitter hops, a bit of grapefruit peel, not much. Kinda light bodied, smooth carbonation, easy to drink.
A mellow American black ale, easy to drink but far from poor. Nice.
Jan 19, 2015Roast and chocolate jump first on the nose, bitter citrus after that (grapefruit, lime), also some pine, some floral hops too. Kinda 60/40.
Hops welcome you in the taste, really fruity, big emphasis on citrus (lots of orange, lemon, pomelo) but also some peach and faint plum. Some chocolate, not too strong, otherwise a big floral/herbal feel, something like ribwort syrup and hints of cola. Roast only towards the finish, kept at bay by nice piney hops with a decent, but not too big, bitterness.
Aftertaste has some ash (almost sulphur?!), cocoa powder, bitter hops, a bit of grapefruit peel, not much. Kinda light bodied, smooth carbonation, easy to drink.
A mellow American black ale, easy to drink but far from poor. Nice.
Reviewed by Amalak from New York
3.39/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.39/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
A. It's black with some bubbles on the side. A huge bubbly tan head with a bit of lacing.
S. It has a bit of a lemon and metallic scent.
T/M. There is a weird chocolate with a kind of wood taste at the end. It's extremely carbonated. and a bit sour. Full bodied. Kind of weedy.
O. The aftertaste is so strange that it really detracts for me. Flavorful, but it is too carbonated and a bit of a weird aftertaste.
Dec 15, 2013S. It has a bit of a lemon and metallic scent.
T/M. There is a weird chocolate with a kind of wood taste at the end. It's extremely carbonated. and a bit sour. Full bodied. Kind of weedy.
O. The aftertaste is so strange that it really detracts for me. Flavorful, but it is too carbonated and a bit of a weird aftertaste.
Reviewed by gillagorilla from Maryland
3.35/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Had on tap at Max's Hopfest (from notes, 8/16-18/13)
A: Deep dark brown with nice lacing.
S: Roasted sweet malts.
T: Not very much like an IPA. Weird kind of licorice or just a weird taste. Pine.
M: Even prickly carbonation.
O: Interesting but I can't place that flavor.
Oct 29, 2013A: Deep dark brown with nice lacing.
S: Roasted sweet malts.
T: Not very much like an IPA. Weird kind of licorice or just a weird taste. Pine.
M: Even prickly carbonation.
O: Interesting but I can't place that flavor.
Reviewed by dbrauneis from North Carolina
3.83/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Served on-tap at Tørst in Brooklyn, NY
A: Pours an opaque jet black in color with minimal amounts of gentle visible carbonation at the edges of the glass and dark cola brown highlights. The beer has a half finger tall creamy tan head that reduces to a thin film covering the entire surface of the beer and a thick ring at the edges of the glass. Significant amounts of lacing are observed.
S: Moderate aromas of pine/resin hops over the top of roasted malts. There are notes of spicy and floral hops as well as hints of something metallic.
T: Upfront there are moderate flavors of dark and roasted malts with light to moderate flavors of pine/resin hops. That is followed by lighter flavors of spicy and floral hops along with something slightly metallic. Moderate amounts of lingering bitterness.
M: Medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Light amounts of dryness are present.
O: I'm not always the hugest fan of American Black Ales because they are often too one dimensional in the hops flavors used but this one was a nice change of pace with the combination of pine, spicy, and floral hops rather than just pine of citrus. Slightly drying but still enjoyable and fairly easy to drink.
Oct 23, 2013A: Pours an opaque jet black in color with minimal amounts of gentle visible carbonation at the edges of the glass and dark cola brown highlights. The beer has a half finger tall creamy tan head that reduces to a thin film covering the entire surface of the beer and a thick ring at the edges of the glass. Significant amounts of lacing are observed.
S: Moderate aromas of pine/resin hops over the top of roasted malts. There are notes of spicy and floral hops as well as hints of something metallic.
T: Upfront there are moderate flavors of dark and roasted malts with light to moderate flavors of pine/resin hops. That is followed by lighter flavors of spicy and floral hops along with something slightly metallic. Moderate amounts of lingering bitterness.
M: Medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Light amounts of dryness are present.
O: I'm not always the hugest fan of American Black Ales because they are often too one dimensional in the hops flavors used but this one was a nice change of pace with the combination of pine, spicy, and floral hops rather than just pine of citrus. Slightly drying but still enjoyable and fairly easy to drink.
B Space Invader from Birra Toccalmatto
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
31 ratings
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