Wolf Cub
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.16 | pDev: 9.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 10, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 13, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Wine & Beyond Southgate in Edmonton. Another one of these 'why did they really have to do that?' things. Releasing a 'new' version of the same style that is a whole 1 point lower in ABV? Anyways.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-cola highlighted brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent old-growth tree branch lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of gently roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, a further free-range ashiness, mild cafe-au-lait notes, and some fairly plain leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of biscuity toffee squares, wet char, some medium chocolate sweetness, a suggestion of earthy yeastiness, stale coffee grounds, and more understated leafy, citrusy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly aggressive in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a wee smokey acridity looking to make a bit of trouble here. It finishes trending dry, even with the big malt, cocoa, and fruity esters pushing the envelope.
Overall - I'm sure it would be nice to compare this one to its immediate ancestor, since my memory of the latter does not differ all that much from what I'm getting now. A pleasant enough version of the style, which would be what now? A 'session' CDA? Give me a fucking break already.
Oct 13, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-cola highlighted brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent old-growth tree branch lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of gently roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, a further free-range ashiness, mild cafe-au-lait notes, and some fairly plain leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of biscuity toffee squares, wet char, some medium chocolate sweetness, a suggestion of earthy yeastiness, stale coffee grounds, and more understated leafy, citrusy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly aggressive in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a wee smokey acridity looking to make a bit of trouble here. It finishes trending dry, even with the big malt, cocoa, and fruity esters pushing the envelope.
Overall - I'm sure it would be nice to compare this one to its immediate ancestor, since my memory of the latter does not differ all that much from what I'm getting now. A pleasant enough version of the style, which would be what now? A 'session' CDA? Give me a fucking break already.
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