Throwin' Shade
Bent Stick Brewing Co.
- From:
- Bent Stick Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 3.73%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2016
- Added:
- Dec 12, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, one of two recent releases by this still new-seeming Edmonton brewing upstart. Nice cultural re-appropriation in the name here.
This beer pours a clear (I think), very dark brown colour, with loose red cola basal highlights, and two fingers of puffy, sort of foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some craggy tree-line lace around the glass as it evenly blows off.
It smells of bittersweet cocoa powder, boozy vanilla, grainy and slightly roasted caramel malt, a touch of phenolic yeastiness, muddled domestic citrus fruit, and further plain leafy, weedy, and perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, milk chocolate, cafe-au-lait, still hard to differentiate (no biggie) citrus rind, and more tame earthy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite low-key in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a small airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the gently roasted malt lingering in the face of some still wan piney and citrusy hop acerbities.
Overall, this is but a well-made (all things being relative) version of the style, which to this scribe, means 'adequately quaffable', and nothing more. At least they keep the char levels to a reasonable minimum, but those proclaimed bittering hops could use a whole lot more cowbell, um, I mean bitterness.
Dec 12, 2016This beer pours a clear (I think), very dark brown colour, with loose red cola basal highlights, and two fingers of puffy, sort of foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some craggy tree-line lace around the glass as it evenly blows off.
It smells of bittersweet cocoa powder, boozy vanilla, grainy and slightly roasted caramel malt, a touch of phenolic yeastiness, muddled domestic citrus fruit, and further plain leafy, weedy, and perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, milk chocolate, cafe-au-lait, still hard to differentiate (no biggie) citrus rind, and more tame earthy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite low-key in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a small airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the gently roasted malt lingering in the face of some still wan piney and citrusy hop acerbities.
Overall, this is but a well-made (all things being relative) version of the style, which to this scribe, means 'adequately quaffable', and nothing more. At least they keep the char levels to a reasonable minimum, but those proclaimed bittering hops could use a whole lot more cowbell, um, I mean bitterness.
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