Back To Black: Zeus Black IPA
Eight Degrees Brewing
- From:
- Eight Degrees Brewing
- Ireland
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 9.62%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 04, 2014
- Added:
- Dec 08, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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This beer is designed to challenge your preconceptions: it looks like a rich dark porter but tastes like a punchy IPA. This Black IPA uses Zeus hops from the Yakima valley and Ella hops from Australia. Think pine resins, citrus and tropical fruit aroma with a spicy bite. Close your eyes, take a sip and let your taste buds take over.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
3.79/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Stout looks: cola black with a finger of creamy sepia head that trails.
Lots of dank, herbal resiny hops on the nose with orange oil, mint, licorice and tar.
Marmite, char, and treacle, then big hop oil, red grapefruit and pine tar ending.
Boysenberry and smoked almond finish and long numbing spicy linger.
Almost medium, chewy, round, no burn.
Not sold on this, sorry to say. There's a strange petrol whiff off the nose, maybe just the combo of flavors rather than anything off, to go along with a taste profile that's all extremes: ash and hop oil. Fruit peeks out a bit eventually as it warms, but Ella not showing it's best, it really needs to be excavated. I'm not one to ever complain about too much IBUs, but combined with roasty bitterness, it just needs a bit more malty sweetness to balance.
I've seen this style done more gracefully.
Dec 08, 2013Lots of dank, herbal resiny hops on the nose with orange oil, mint, licorice and tar.
Marmite, char, and treacle, then big hop oil, red grapefruit and pine tar ending.
Boysenberry and smoked almond finish and long numbing spicy linger.
Almost medium, chewy, round, no burn.
Not sold on this, sorry to say. There's a strange petrol whiff off the nose, maybe just the combo of flavors rather than anything off, to go along with a taste profile that's all extremes: ash and hop oil. Fruit peeks out a bit eventually as it warms, but Ella not showing it's best, it really needs to be excavated. I'm not one to ever complain about too much IBUs, but combined with roasty bitterness, it just needs a bit more malty sweetness to balance.
I've seen this style done more gracefully.
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