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Skunk Ape Double Black IPA, the very first beer within the Mogollon Monster Mash series. The skunk Ape, a sizable hairy, bipedal mammal, is carefully similar to the famous Sasquatch. Usually the creature°s appearance is generally preceded with a thick skunk-like odor, and it°s scream cuts the night time air delivering chills in the spine of in ear shot. We brew this Double Black IPA as dark as night time and stuff it filled with hops. At 10% ABV and 83.44 IBU°s, you°ll enjoy your encounter with this particular Skunk Ape with an infinitely more pleasing, slightly roasted and hoppy aroma, and could end up running screaming in to the night for additional.
Bottle. Black, thin to moderate creamy sandy mind, spotty lacing. Citrus peel and roasted malt nose. Just a little candied and sweet. Pine, citrus pith and peel, with soft roasted malts around the tongue. Had I not checked out the beer, been with them at nighttime, I would not think Black IPA whatsoever. Appears just like a respectable Double IPA. Body and mouthfeel are moderate to full. Pale roast, more powerful pith/peel citrus bits around the exit. Mild to moderate sweetness. Good quaffer!
22oz bottle flows brownish with tan mind. Grapefruit pine aroma. Malt and pine taste.
Bomber put a obvious dark reddish brown having a lingering ring of tan foam. Aromas of roastiness, earthiness, grapefruit and lightweight pine. Palate was medium bodied and smooth having a dry finish. Flavors of roastiness, earthiness, grapefruit and pine having a smooth dry moderatly bitter lingering roasty citrus finish.
22oz bottle, great because of MikedR. Black body. Good thin light brown mind. Good lace. Nice nose of earthy and herbal hops, chocolate, and roasty malts. Bigger body, though not as large as the ABV indicate. Good chocolate malt, roasty flavor. Nice herbal and earthy hop within the flavor, again. Good toasty malts, light roast. Little coffee, good bitter chocolates. Nice longer chocolatey roasty mildly herbal hoppy aftertaste. Good smooth, creamy mouthfeel. Nice bitter and flavor, little either in direction, though. It°s impressive how good-masked the tenPercent ABV is. Super easy to consume, tasty, even. Barely an indication of alcohol. My type of black IPA. Great! Simple to drink! Scrumptious! Thanks Mike!
Bottle: Thanks Andrew: Medium-sized vast and slow disappearing creamy beige rappel mind on the top of the ebony beer. Smell hops, cream, malts, wet wood, herbs, milk, milk chocolate. Taste bitters, milk chocolate, chocolate milk, some toasted herbs, hops, toast, yeast, toasted barley malts and a few milky chocolate spices. Aftertaste is great floral with a few chocolate, bitter, toasted barley malts and milk/milk chocolate. Low carbo, creamy texture, medium to full along with a creamy texture.
Put from the 22 ounce bottle because of mikedr. Flows an almost black having a large froth of khaki colored foam. The aroma is loaded with lots of simcoe dankness and resinous pine. Taste is bitter in advance, but progresses to some sweet, toffee like profile. Alcohol is well hidden.
Bottle, from PHX. Pure awesome. Chocolate & malt around the nose, has the aroma of an imperial stout. Flows black, light mind. Can use a little more hops around the flavor, but that°s being picky. Awesome beer.
Interesting. From the 22 oz. bottle from Total Wine, flows deep brown/black right into a chilled pint glass. Initially it didn't have mind and so i thought something was wrong, however it created a stout-like mind that lasted a bit. Aroma is medium-level: hops, but more. Flavor is hops, molasses, stout-like, along with a lingering flavor of maltiness within the mouth. Lots of flavors here. Thick around the palate. Put the remainder right into a tulip glass and also got more flavor and aroma: some chocolate because it warms. Great one.
22 oz. bottle from Total Wine (Park Place) - Flows an in-depth brown color having a solid one finger thick tan mind. very light spotty lacing. Aroma is toasted malt with hints of chocolate and herbal hops. Flavor is toasted malt, esters, and herbal hops. the malt lingers within the finish. Medium body. I was expecting much more of a hop presence, still would be a good beer. Alcohol is rather well hidden. A pleasant beer.
UPDATED: SEP 29, 2012 A energetic pour into my Bruery Tulip creates a three-finger thick, brown tinged, dark tan colored mind. The beer is really a concentrated brown color that shows a obvious, dark plum / concentrated-burnt-amber hue when held to the light. The aroma includes a dirty hoppiness into it that could be highlighted with a hint of diacetyl (though in hindsight, this last is probably just more dank hop character) dank, herbaceous, with a lot of skunky °hemp°, a large woodsy peppery notes, a nearly caraway like note. Backing notes of tangelo zest, roasted wholegrain notes, a floral citrus character, and a little tropical fruit character that leans towards lychee, possibly kumquat, and a little peach.
Plenty of fruity hop character is apparent in advance, because the beer moves over the tongue it accumulates an even roasted grain character, a natural hop character, some peppery hemp like notes, a woodsy pine character, a chalky dark malt character, along with a nice chocolate flavor that gently influences the conclusion. The fruit character contributes flavors of tangelo, ample peach notes, some lychee, an even kumquat zest note, and a lot of floral citrus notes. The bitterness here's quite smooth a lot of it is contributed through the roast malt character, the remainder through the hop character, but it's really quite smooth, however with sufficient bite to help keep things moored here. Your body of the beer is rather light for any Double, her quaffability it needs, and it has the viscosity it must offer the ample hop character.
The aroma certainly captures the beers title very well, the taste might be a less dank, and much more fruit focused, this will make the beer a little more likeable for me personally, although it loses a little bit of skunkiness, but it's still sufficiently dank. I like how smooth the roast malt character is here you go congratulations, and enables the hop character to stand out very well. This can be a beer that's greater than a amount of its parts, the mixture just works for me personally, which is much better than I had been expecting especially since i have was concerned about the provenance and chronilogical age of this beer.
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