Broken Clock Fade to Black Black IPA.
7.6 % ABV. 85 IBU. Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative, Minneapolis, MN.
Solid blackness, complete opacity, full, rich, creamy brown head.
In the nose: Hoppy aromatics, floating over dark chocolatey malts.
In the mouth: Bittersweet, malt-backward, with hops shining high up front. Chocolate and coffee meets pine and grass, with a slice of citrus. Medium bodied, smooth, tasty. Nicely hopped. Big time bitterness matched with sweet malt. I'm digging it.
Whatever happened to you, Black IPA, aka Hoppy Porter? Will you ever return in earnest, or are the hazies really here to stay? I'm glad you pop up from time to time, and cheers to breweries like Broken Clock for returning you to us, if just once in a while.
This black IPA is heavily hopped, but has a smooth malty backbone. It has notes of chocolate and caramel in the finish. The hops selected for this beer give it a lingering citrus and piney aroma and flavor.
2 comments:
Hoppy Porter has to have the India Pale Ale label? Just because it is dark and highly hopped?
I like the name. but I digress.
I think the beer naming spectrum is antiquated. Let us get off our bean bag rompers, singing Sesame Street songs and start naming beers as if they may have a future.
Silly goes only so far. Do you want names to sound like bong hits on break?
Not to lump all in one basket, it just gets hard to compare, and overtly creative is not admirable or necessary.
Okay fine
Bong Hits on Break would be a great name for a beer
See, I preempted y'alls
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