Black IPA
Whistle Stop Restaurant & Woodman Brewery
- From:
- Whistle Stop Restaurant & Woodman Brewery
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.52 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 04, 2012
- Added:
- Apr 04, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by WastingFreetime from Wisconsin
2.52/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.52/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Reviewed from session notes.
"Dark Mega-Hopped Ale" is printed on the neck label.
A. Very dark brown, opaque, single finger of tan colored froth for a head that lasts for about two minutes with some medium level lacing left behind on the glass.
S. Straightforward medium levels of roasted and charred malt aroma, but a very noticeable lack of significant hop aroma. In other words, it smells like a porter, not a Black IPA.
T. The flavor is a dry charred malt not unlike an Irish Dry Stout that has had two scoops of boring grapefruit pith added to the middle of the palate. I would have preferred some more varieties of hopping flavor and certainly a hell of a lot more of hopping in the aroma. This is just the straightforward monotonous bitter of heavily boiled hops.
M. A bit too thin for my liking, but not by a huge amount. Medium carbonation and a standard bitter pithy boiled hop finish.
In summary, this brew suffers from a lack of hopping nuance, complexity, and intensity. You can tell that the malt bill has been handled expertly, but the hopping bill has not been so fortunate... Its almost as if two entirely different people were put in charge of the hops and the malts, and they didn't talk with each other very much.
Apr 04, 2012"Dark Mega-Hopped Ale" is printed on the neck label.
A. Very dark brown, opaque, single finger of tan colored froth for a head that lasts for about two minutes with some medium level lacing left behind on the glass.
S. Straightforward medium levels of roasted and charred malt aroma, but a very noticeable lack of significant hop aroma. In other words, it smells like a porter, not a Black IPA.
T. The flavor is a dry charred malt not unlike an Irish Dry Stout that has had two scoops of boring grapefruit pith added to the middle of the palate. I would have preferred some more varieties of hopping flavor and certainly a hell of a lot more of hopping in the aroma. This is just the straightforward monotonous bitter of heavily boiled hops.
M. A bit too thin for my liking, but not by a huge amount. Medium carbonation and a standard bitter pithy boiled hop finish.
In summary, this brew suffers from a lack of hopping nuance, complexity, and intensity. You can tell that the malt bill has been handled expertly, but the hopping bill has not been so fortunate... Its almost as if two entirely different people were put in charge of the hops and the malts, and they didn't talk with each other very much.
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