Does anything "fall off" quite as hard or quickly as a Black IPA?

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  1. SerialTicker

    SerialTicker Pooh-Bah (2,851) Jun 18, 2012 Missouri
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    I hadn't had any black IPA more than once until Bell's Uranus. I had it for the first time a couple months ago when it was a week or so after its bottling date. I wanted to wait a month to drink the next bottle to see how it changed, but it wound up being two months. Drinking it now, I'm shocked just at how much this beer has changed in just two months. The hop profile seems to have changed dramatically, and the roasted malts are a lot more pronounced. This is still an excellent beer (hence me putting quotes around "fall off" in the title), but how can a beer change so much so quickly? Note that it was in my fridge the whole time with no change in temperature.

    And cue the oh-so witty Uranus jokes.
     
    #1 SerialTicker, Aug 3, 2015
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  2. creepinjeeper

    creepinjeeper Initiate (0) Nov 8, 2012 Missouri

    Is it because of the darker roast of the malts, maybe?
     
    #2 creepinjeeper, Aug 3, 2015
  3. hopnado

    hopnado Initiate (0) Aug 13, 2014 Michigan

    Sorry to hear Uranus fell off. Glad I got me some before it was too late
     
    #3 hopnado, Aug 3, 2015
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  4. MistaRyte

    MistaRyte Pooh-Bah (2,681) Jan 14, 2008 Virginia
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    (giggling like a 6 year old)
     
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  5. MattyB203

    MattyB203 Devotee (399) Apr 20, 2015 Connecticut

    Black IPAs are never very good to start - I've never had a good Black IPA period, but they do get unbearable very quickly. I think people have this messed up perception that they can last longer because they're dark.
     
    #5 MattyB203, Aug 3, 2015
  6. tylerstravis

    tylerstravis Pooh-Bah (2,487) Feb 14, 2014 Colorado
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    They don't last longer, but an old Black IPA / CDA is WAY better than an old IPA.
     
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  7. JrGtr

    JrGtr Pooh-Bah (1,775) Apr 13, 2006 Massachusetts
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    I think it's hoppy beers in general.
    I have had many dark / black IPAs, and I don't think they necessarily fall off faster than regular ones. I have found that some will stay good for a long time, like Heady Topper, and others fall off very fast, like Pliny the Elder.
    I don't have names offhand of the Black IPAs that last better than others, though.
     
    #7 JrGtr, Aug 3, 2015
  8. AlpacaAlpaca

    AlpacaAlpaca Maven (1,384) Apr 2, 2014 New York
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    I agree. The first Uranus I had, it was nicely hoppy with some roasty malts. Just a week later, the hoppiness was almost gone. Still good, but very different
     
    #8 AlpacaAlpaca, Aug 3, 2015
  9. Prince_Casual

    Prince_Casual Savant (1,236) Nov 3, 2012 District of Columbia
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    Is there any reason the OP isn't "Does anything "fall off" quite as hard or quickly as a Bell's Uranus?" since the first thing stated is "I hadn't had any black IPA more than once until Bell's Uranus..."

    Pretty ridiculous to extrapolate one guy's experience with literally 2 bottles of 1 (new, one-off) brew, drank 2 months apart, and make sweeping statements about a style with dozens of examples and thousands of cases produced. I mean this in good fun, but your experience is hardly statistically significant.
     
    #9 Prince_Casual, Aug 3, 2015
  10. RLVineh

    RLVineh Zealot (572) Jun 21, 2014 California
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    So childish, but yet so hilarious!!! Best Comment ever
     
    #10 RLVineh, Aug 3, 2015
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  11. JMS1512

    JMS1512 Initiate (0) Feb 18, 2013 New Jersey

    Yup, me too.
     
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  12. Hop-Droppen-Roll

    Hop-Droppen-Roll Initiate (0) Nov 5, 2013 Minnesota

    It still doesn't taste like ass, so we have that going for us.
     
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  13. John_M

    John_M Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,849) Oct 25, 2003 Washington
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