Black Wolf CDA
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 0.57%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 22, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 04, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.53/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
355ml can - beyond Black IPA, ABA, and CDA, the label, amongst other local lore, mentions 'India Black Ale'. Whew, I'm glad that's finally been settled!
This beer pours a fairly solid black, yet with prominent amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky beige head, which leaves some sudsy layered cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of roasted and sort of meaty caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, a bit of indistinct metallic spice, day-old coffee grounds, muted generic citrus rind, and some zingy leafy, herbal, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some sassy free-range ashiness, rather dry-seeming chocolate, stale cafe-au-lait, and more testy leafy, citrusy, and piney acerbic hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, as the char factor here makes it inherently difficult to achieve full scores. It finishes trending dry, the cocoa, coffee, and acrid verdant hops making it so.
Overall, this is one forceful and bitter version of the style, all wet char this and pine needle that, which I suppose will duly satisfy the apologists (sorry, 'fans') out there, but to me, it's yet another waste of time and tastebuds, even if I can call it well-made, if I have to.
Mar 06, 2017This beer pours a fairly solid black, yet with prominent amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky beige head, which leaves some sudsy layered cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of roasted and sort of meaty caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, a bit of indistinct metallic spice, day-old coffee grounds, muted generic citrus rind, and some zingy leafy, herbal, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some sassy free-range ashiness, rather dry-seeming chocolate, stale cafe-au-lait, and more testy leafy, citrusy, and piney acerbic hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, as the char factor here makes it inherently difficult to achieve full scores. It finishes trending dry, the cocoa, coffee, and acrid verdant hops making it so.
Overall, this is one forceful and bitter version of the style, all wet char this and pine needle that, which I suppose will duly satisfy the apologists (sorry, 'fans') out there, but to me, it's yet another waste of time and tastebuds, even if I can call it well-made, if I have to.
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