Mourning Sun
Mirror Twin Brewing
- From:
- Mirror Twin Brewing
- Kentucky, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.18 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 09, 2024
- Added:
- Jan 09, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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The first Release of the year we bring you a style that you haven't seen from us in quite some time. We teamed up with the good people at Ethereal Brewing to bring you a Black IPA called Mourning Sun. We both respectively made a small batch black IPA last year and we decided to mash the recipes together for your drinking pleasure. This is essentially a dark IPA with a little more malt and some roast character, while hops are still very present and focal. Its cold outside and this will surely warm you up. Since we split this batch it will not be hanging around long so come grab it while we still have some!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.18/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
In what may be the haziest IPA of them all, Mirror Twin teams up with Ethereal Brewing to make a beer as dreadful as the weather.
Very dark brown and easily mistaken for black, Mourning Sun kicks off cold weather season with frothy light tan foam and a roasty, citrusy and piney scent. As a mild sweetness coats the tongue with caramel, toast and cocoa, the malty impression are more of roasty beer than IPA.
But the tables turn as the Black IPA shifts from dry maltiness and toward charred citrus. Blackened grapefruit, orange and lime enliven the tastebuds after the sweetness subsides, and links up with the more coffee, cocoa and smoky edges of grain. A deep dive into a drying and bitter late palate shows lightly burnt pine needles, citrus peels and bitter chocolate.
Medium bodied and seeming full in flavor, the beer's dryness keeps the session drinkable and daringly refreshing for such dark ale. Its focus on bitterness and dryness keeps it from becoming simply a hoppy porter but a real roasty IPA. The cold never bothered me anyway.
Jan 09, 2024Very dark brown and easily mistaken for black, Mourning Sun kicks off cold weather season with frothy light tan foam and a roasty, citrusy and piney scent. As a mild sweetness coats the tongue with caramel, toast and cocoa, the malty impression are more of roasty beer than IPA.
But the tables turn as the Black IPA shifts from dry maltiness and toward charred citrus. Blackened grapefruit, orange and lime enliven the tastebuds after the sweetness subsides, and links up with the more coffee, cocoa and smoky edges of grain. A deep dive into a drying and bitter late palate shows lightly burnt pine needles, citrus peels and bitter chocolate.
Medium bodied and seeming full in flavor, the beer's dryness keeps the session drinkable and daringly refreshing for such dark ale. Its focus on bitterness and dryness keeps it from becoming simply a hoppy porter but a real roasty IPA. The cold never bothered me anyway.
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