Bring Out Your Dead
Black Plague Brewing

 

Handsome clear amber brew with long-lasting foam in the tall stout glass. For some reason this seems so creamy and sudsy on the tongue. Not overly bitter, but just enough of a playful bite. Modest piney aroma. This also tastes more malty and crackery, which goes well with the flavors of citrus peel. A touch of apricot and that distinctive old-school beery aftertaste of clean hops.

Other reviews have good comments on this. Overall a solid yet restrained IPA with plenty of aromatics. From the 12 oz can purchased from the brewery. Their plague-time special is $6 a six pack if you buy a case, and pay a reasonable shipping cost. So this will be my go-to IPA for some time.

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a lightly hazy, light to medium golden amber with a two finger white head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of pale malt, piney and citrus hops, orange, faint pine, light mixed tropical fruit; subdued. Flavor is a lightly caramel malt, piney and citrus hops, lemon, grapefruit, pine needles, light mixed tropical and stone fruit; semi-resinous piney and citrus rind finish with good hop bitterness. Medium bodied with light creaminess. The look and aroma worried me at first with this IPA; it was a little light in color and the aroma was surprisingly light. The first taste, however, revealed a solid West Coast hop profile with a very nice level of bitterness, which extended into a fine finish. The hop botanical flavors are a bit muddled, as are the fruit flavors, but there is plenty to try to parse out. Not a cutting edge IPA, but a flavorful West Coast IPA offering. I'll look these guys up again. Eerily apropos name and theme for these times, but worthy of getting me through it.

Pours an unfiltered copper/Amber with a layer of creamy head

Nose is cracker malt with a little citrus

Taste is fairly malty, with a lot of pine

Full bodied, lingering astringency

Pretty solid overall...with a “traditional” west coast profile...kind of echoes the classic SNPA, except turned up to 7% ABV