8

Always nice to run into a BIPA, even if they're double. Lots of roast, coffee, lots of hop. Bitter, boozy, some citrus peel, bunch of resin. A heavy one.

8.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Lovely aroma, sticky, pine. Taste is great. Loads of taste, lots of hops, lots of pine, bit of roast. Lovely. Easy drinking.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On draft (which is too rare). Black. Creamy head (I double taked and thought it might have been on nitro... It wasn't). Roasted malts up the wazoo, with an imperial stout like twist up the back. A cracking good, big beast of a beer.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle - Lots of roast with some nice pine and herbal notes. Deep dark brown with a light brown head. Lots of roast, liquorice and pine. Bitter and long finish. Huge and decent for the ABV.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft at Smith Street Taps, Singapore. Poured almost black with a thin broken tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, grassy hop. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a big citrus grass hop bitter, light burning alcohol palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. At 11% you can tell the alcohol is there but it’s not dominating the beer.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500ml bottle from Leura Cellars. Pours black in colour with a foamy beige head and roasted malty aroma along with floral fruity hop resins. Taste is roast malt, with chocolate & coffee notes, and sweetish with juicy citrus, orange, grapefruit, woody pine, and hoppy spicy bitterness. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry spicy roast bitter finish. Very drinkable.

8.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Pours black, nice beige foam. Aroma is soft, full of fruits and and roasty hoppiness. Building up anticipation before I am able to taste it. Finally I do and taste has strong hops, bubblegum sweetness. Hops are bitter, balanced with the body but still carrying on, almost like a hop liquor. Lingering bitterness, really nice.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Pitch black color. Light brown head. Pine molasses citrusy nose with lots of dark chocolate in the nose. Wonderful stuff. Big big cotton candy citrus notes with pine, balanced and alcohol is well hidden. With molasses and citrus lingering in the finish. Bitterness lingers. Hands down one of the best imperial black ipas I’ve ever had. Wow. Wow.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

[8/14] Bottle, 11C. Pretty pricey, really only succumbed to this because every damned Melbourne bottlo I go to someone’s banging on about Kaiju!. Black with a largish light tan head that lasts pretty well. Aroma of oranges, orange blossoms, coffee, brown sugar, nectarines, a little chocolate. Smooth oily texture, lowish carbonation is about perfect for me. Clean and bittersweet with loads of oranges, mocha (more dark chocolate than fruity coffee), Australian rumminess, a little pine and some alcohol. Zesty oranges along with firm bitterness at the end. Depth? Not really. Balance? Yes, of a kind. There’s a nagging thought that surely an 11% beer should offer more than a fun whooomp, but it’s just such a fun beer. [4] [6/18] 375ml can. 10% ABV. Whooomp. Very smooth, well integrated flavours. A little less zesty than before?