Dead Man's Handle
Siding 14 Brewing Company
- From:
- Siding 14 Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 3.74%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 11, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 06, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
355ml can - listed on the label as merely a seasonal release, ya gotta go use the interwebs to find out the real proclaimed style, apparently.
This beer pours a kind of hazy, dark red-brick brown colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent layered stringy lace around the glass as it slowly but surely abates.
It smells of roasted bready and doughy caramel malt, indistinct domestic citrus rind, bittersweet cocoa powder, a hint of cafe-au-lait, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, coffee-forward mocha, fairly dry chocolate, ethereal orange and white grapefruit citrus pith, and more tame earthy, piney, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a bit of that expected char getting stuck in my teeth here. It finishes trending dry, the coffee, neutered malt, and general roasted character predominating.
Overall - this comes across as a very-well thought out and approachable version of the style. The bitterness isn't exactly hoppy in orientation, as is the norm, but rather from the toasty and ashy aspects, which somehow makes this go down a whole lot more easily than is usual for this near-agnostic. Worthy of checking out, especially if you like 'em roasty, I must say again.
Nov 06, 2017This beer pours a kind of hazy, dark red-brick brown colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent layered stringy lace around the glass as it slowly but surely abates.
It smells of roasted bready and doughy caramel malt, indistinct domestic citrus rind, bittersweet cocoa powder, a hint of cafe-au-lait, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, coffee-forward mocha, fairly dry chocolate, ethereal orange and white grapefruit citrus pith, and more tame earthy, piney, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a bit of that expected char getting stuck in my teeth here. It finishes trending dry, the coffee, neutered malt, and general roasted character predominating.
Overall - this comes across as a very-well thought out and approachable version of the style. The bitterness isn't exactly hoppy in orientation, as is the norm, but rather from the toasty and ashy aspects, which somehow makes this go down a whole lot more easily than is usual for this near-agnostic. Worthy of checking out, especially if you like 'em roasty, I must say again.
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