KerryD Away Dark IPA
Off The Rail Brewing Company
- From:
- Off The Rail Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 5.39%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 14, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 05, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.51/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.51/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
473ml can - it's strange how this brewery has such disparate packaging vectors. Anyways, not sure what the punny moniker is supposed to refer to - brewer's name, maybe?
This beer pours a clear, dark, amber-highlighted brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some splattered sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, brown sugar syrup, a faint wet ashiness, muddled citrus and pome fruity notes, a hint of bittersweet cocoa powder, and some tame earthy, musty, and piney green hops. The taste is gently roasted, bready and grainy caramel malt, buttery crackers, still difficult to discern citrus rind, dime-store chocolate, and more understated earthy, leafy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a minor hop acridity marring the surface sheen here. It finishes well off-dry, the malt and cold cocoa the lingering champs.
Overall - this is sort of a weird version of the hybrid style, as it is neither hoppy nor roasted to any appreciable degree. It reminds me of a mildly hopped brown ale, more than anything, especially given the barely past average alcohol content. Not bad, but not particularly good, either.
Mar 10, 2018This beer pours a clear, dark, amber-highlighted brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some splattered sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, brown sugar syrup, a faint wet ashiness, muddled citrus and pome fruity notes, a hint of bittersweet cocoa powder, and some tame earthy, musty, and piney green hops. The taste is gently roasted, bready and grainy caramel malt, buttery crackers, still difficult to discern citrus rind, dime-store chocolate, and more understated earthy, leafy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a minor hop acridity marring the surface sheen here. It finishes well off-dry, the malt and cold cocoa the lingering champs.
Overall - this is sort of a weird version of the hybrid style, as it is neither hoppy nor roasted to any appreciable degree. It reminds me of a mildly hopped brown ale, more than anything, especially given the barely past average alcohol content. Not bad, but not particularly good, either.
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