Think car freshener pine from the hops, but in terms of overall strength it’s more malt-forward. The aroma is promising enough, mixing a cocoa powder, chocolate character with an immediate bitter impression of pine. Green Flash’s new Black IPA falls somewhere in between. Others don’t have the hop presence to stand up to their darker characteristics. Some simply taste like mediocre IPAs with a little dark food coloring. Combining the roasted aspects of a brown ale, porter, stout or schwarzbier with the hop character of an American IPA is a difficult balancing act, any way you slice it. ![]() ![]() I truly believe that black IPAs or “Cascadian dark ales” or “American black ales” are among the hardest of all currently popular American craft beer styles to do well.
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