CDA
Postmark Brewing
- From:
- Postmark Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.46 | pDev: 19.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 09, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 04, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.76/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.76/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - nice stark coastline imagery on the label: 'Dark | Mysterious | Deep'.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some gnarly tree branch lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, a further cereal graininess, some free-range ashiness, muddled generic citrus rind, and some ethereal leafy, earthy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bittersweet orange and white grapefruit peel, sugary-seeming caramel/toffee malt, wet ash, bittersweet chocolate, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and more testy herbal, piney, and damp grassy verdant hops.
The carbonation is adequate in its sort of caressing frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and actually quite smooth, with just a touch of char reminding us of what we're drinking here. It finishes off-dry, the cocoa, caramel, citrus and pine all coalescing into a miasma of wispy smoked goodness.
Overall, I am duly on record as not being a fan of this particular style of beer, but once in a while, one comes across the proverbial exception that breaks the rule. This is indeed a nice IPA, with just the right amount of roastiness that can make itself innocuous if the proper cognitive dissonance receptors are firing. Me likey.
Dec 09, 2016This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some gnarly tree branch lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, a further cereal graininess, some free-range ashiness, muddled generic citrus rind, and some ethereal leafy, earthy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bittersweet orange and white grapefruit peel, sugary-seeming caramel/toffee malt, wet ash, bittersweet chocolate, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and more testy herbal, piney, and damp grassy verdant hops.
The carbonation is adequate in its sort of caressing frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and actually quite smooth, with just a touch of char reminding us of what we're drinking here. It finishes off-dry, the cocoa, caramel, citrus and pine all coalescing into a miasma of wispy smoked goodness.
Overall, I am duly on record as not being a fan of this particular style of beer, but once in a while, one comes across the proverbial exception that breaks the rule. This is indeed a nice IPA, with just the right amount of roastiness that can make itself innocuous if the proper cognitive dissonance receptors are firing. Me likey.
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