Immortal
Attitude Brewing Company

This version is a BLACK IPA and it’s served as a nitro pour.

Deep, dark brown where light passes easily through the edges. It appears to be clear. Excellent, tight-bubbled beige head. Excellent rings for lace with ample spots in between.

Pleasant semisweet chocolatey nose. There’s a touch of smoke to the smell as well. There’s some plastic off smell that is subtle enough to not sense until the third whiff.

Very dry flavor up front. There is no chocolate in the taste. Instead, it’s more burnt and ashen. The finish has an additional influx of hop bitterness. The body feels thin for the full flavor, but is appropriate for a black IPA. The carbonation does NOT come across like nitro, the bubble’s are too large. The beer lacks the smoothness I’ve come to expect from nitro pours.

Clear dark brown with a red glint and a nice slosh of beige foam in the Saxo tulip. Sudsy and lush mouthfeel. Unmistakably an IPA, the bitterness is substantial. Tastes like a Stout with all the dark roasted malt and charred grain. Then the leafy and herbal bitterness takes over.

It’s hard to taste hops for the aromatic character when there is so much blackened taste going on. It even tastes hot with alcohol plus the burnt sugar. If you like a bitter stout, this is actually worth a try. It’s clean and well made, just a shotgun wedding of West Coast IPA with vengeance in mind plus the blackest villain of a Stout. From the 12 oz can purchased at the brewery tasting room in San Diego.