Purgatory Black Cream Ale
Innocente Brewing Company
- From:
- Innocente Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 1.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 30, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 20, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.53/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500 mL bottle picked up at the brewery; bottled Feb 11 2016 and served well-chilled.
Pours black as night, fitted with a half-inch crown of dense, creamy, light beige-coloured head. It fades off over the next couple of minutes, leaving few remnants behind in its wake - save for a thin collar and a few wisps on the surface. Burnt, roasted grains on the nose, with notes of hazelnut, copper penny and treacle; hints of coffee start to crop up as the glass gains warmth.
Doesn't taste as dark as it looks, if that makes any sense. The flavour profile consists of grainy, bready malts with a light touch of caramel sweetness, blended together with roasted dark malts that impart a somewhat charry, smoky flavour. Light metallicity; finishes with some grassy, leafy hop bitterness that dries out the palate. Light-bodied, with middling carbonation levels that gently prickle the palate and a fairly smooth, satisfying mouthfeel.
Final Grade: 3.53, a B. Purgatory Black Cream Ale is fine for the style, but I'm not sure it's something I'll be returning to any time soon. I can't pinpoint exactly what it is about this beer that rubs me the wrong way - maybe it's that persistent metallic note in the taste/aroma, or maybe it's just the disparity between how it looks and how it tastes - but in any event, this is a beer that I could take or leave. Like most cream ales, this is a mostly-uninteresting beer that would be fine for sessioning, but isn't something I'd seek out or actively recommend to others.
Mar 30, 2016Pours black as night, fitted with a half-inch crown of dense, creamy, light beige-coloured head. It fades off over the next couple of minutes, leaving few remnants behind in its wake - save for a thin collar and a few wisps on the surface. Burnt, roasted grains on the nose, with notes of hazelnut, copper penny and treacle; hints of coffee start to crop up as the glass gains warmth.
Doesn't taste as dark as it looks, if that makes any sense. The flavour profile consists of grainy, bready malts with a light touch of caramel sweetness, blended together with roasted dark malts that impart a somewhat charry, smoky flavour. Light metallicity; finishes with some grassy, leafy hop bitterness that dries out the palate. Light-bodied, with middling carbonation levels that gently prickle the palate and a fairly smooth, satisfying mouthfeel.
Final Grade: 3.53, a B. Purgatory Black Cream Ale is fine for the style, but I'm not sure it's something I'll be returning to any time soon. I can't pinpoint exactly what it is about this beer that rubs me the wrong way - maybe it's that persistent metallic note in the taste/aroma, or maybe it's just the disparity between how it looks and how it tastes - but in any event, this is a beer that I could take or leave. Like most cream ales, this is a mostly-uninteresting beer that would be fine for sessioning, but isn't something I'd seek out or actively recommend to others.
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