Black Magic
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 4.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 17, 2019
- Added:
- Sep 23, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.1/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a dark chesnut brown with three fingers of frothy chesnut head.
Smell - earthy and leafy hops, roasted malts, nutty aromas, dark fruits (plum,raisin), cocoa, hint of coffee bean, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy and leafy hops upfront then quickly goes into the roasted malts, cocoa, hint of coffee bean, and nutty aromas. The dark fruits (plum, raisin), and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth and creamy with the roasted malts, cocoa, and hint of coffee bean lingering.
Overall - A flavourful Brown Ale that borders between brown ale and Schwarzbier. The flavours are spot on. A nice salty treat would be a nice companion with this brew but alas I will enjoy it.
Jun 17, 2019Smell - earthy and leafy hops, roasted malts, nutty aromas, dark fruits (plum,raisin), cocoa, hint of coffee bean, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy and leafy hops upfront then quickly goes into the roasted malts, cocoa, hint of coffee bean, and nutty aromas. The dark fruits (plum, raisin), and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth and creamy with the roasted malts, cocoa, and hint of coffee bean lingering.
Overall - A flavourful Brown Ale that borders between brown ale and Schwarzbier. The flavours are spot on. A nice salty treat would be a nice companion with this brew but alas I will enjoy it.
Rated by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.85/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 473ml can. Canned on March 09/2019
A nice dark ale, somewhat thin in body but ok.
May 31, 2019A nice dark ale, somewhat thin in body but ok.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - referred to as a 'dark ale', which even given the recent redesign, isn't a style on this site.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent broadly webbed lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a strong earthy nuttiness, some free-range char, bittersweet cocoa powder, faint cafe-au-lait, and some plain leafy, herbal, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium-dark chocolate, oily bar-top nuts, some ethereal ashiness, subtle day-old coffee grounds, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt orchestrating the lingering experience.
Overall - this comes off as very much like (as I read elsewhere) a Schwarzbier, but rendered in ale format. Gently roasty, and full of flavour, it's got me hankering for pretzels, something salty. Good stuff!
Sep 25, 2018This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent broadly webbed lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a strong earthy nuttiness, some free-range char, bittersweet cocoa powder, faint cafe-au-lait, and some plain leafy, herbal, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium-dark chocolate, oily bar-top nuts, some ethereal ashiness, subtle day-old coffee grounds, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt orchestrating the lingering experience.
Overall - this comes off as very much like (as I read elsewhere) a Schwarzbier, but rendered in ale format. Gently roasty, and full of flavour, it's got me hankering for pretzels, something salty. Good stuff!
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