Go Black
Birrificio Pontino
- From:
- Birrificio Pontino
- Italy
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 04, 2014
- Added:
- May 04, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
33cl brown bottle purchased from Domus Birrae in Rome.
Pours a murky ruby-dark brown colour, made darker by the haze, with a very frothy, coarse head of beige that settles out and persists as a frothy mesh across the top. Frothy, sudsy lacing. Body looks pretty light overall. But it's not bad.
Nose is solid enough: clean fruity hops giving some citric tones and a bit of sweetness, while the malt provides a more savoury, wholesome basis. No hint of roast or anything darker, but the malt is certainly more pronounced than you'd get in an APA or IPA. Smells pretty decent.
Taste is also solid. Clean orange-citrus hop presence through the centre of the palate, some subtle malt structure underneath to cushion it. There's a slightly metallic or mineral character towards the back, black rock salt or iodine perhaps. Malt drops out substantially towards the finish, leaving the back pretty empty, but it finishes clean at least.
Feel is decent: about middle-of-the-road for what you'd expect given everything else.
Overall. Yeah. It's solid. Not great, but definitely solid. Definitely something I'm pleased to have tried. It doesn't really do anything that exciting, or even anything that you probably haven't seen a bunch of times before, but it's certainly a decently made IBA.
May 04, 2014Pours a murky ruby-dark brown colour, made darker by the haze, with a very frothy, coarse head of beige that settles out and persists as a frothy mesh across the top. Frothy, sudsy lacing. Body looks pretty light overall. But it's not bad.
Nose is solid enough: clean fruity hops giving some citric tones and a bit of sweetness, while the malt provides a more savoury, wholesome basis. No hint of roast or anything darker, but the malt is certainly more pronounced than you'd get in an APA or IPA. Smells pretty decent.
Taste is also solid. Clean orange-citrus hop presence through the centre of the palate, some subtle malt structure underneath to cushion it. There's a slightly metallic or mineral character towards the back, black rock salt or iodine perhaps. Malt drops out substantially towards the finish, leaving the back pretty empty, but it finishes clean at least.
Feel is decent: about middle-of-the-road for what you'd expect given everything else.
Overall. Yeah. It's solid. Not great, but definitely solid. Definitely something I'm pleased to have tried. It doesn't really do anything that exciting, or even anything that you probably haven't seen a bunch of times before, but it's certainly a decently made IBA.
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