Sunday, 11 December 2016

Beer Advent Calendar 2016 - December 11th

Woo! Black IPA! Woo!

One point before today's beer.  I looked at the 'traffic' for this site.

Firstly - there are just under 100 page views showing in the audience stats (which doesn't seem to specify a time period. 42 of them from Russia, 37 from the US, 10 from Portugal, 6 from France, and 2 from the UK.  Fascinating...spam-bot-blog-monitoring-strangeness, I'm sure.

Mad Dog Brewing Co - It's all propaganda

Another new Welsh brewer for the calendar. Jeez - maybe I should start brewing beer.
A black IPA flavoured with lemon and grapefruit.  It smells a little bit of coconut, in a strange desiccated coconut kind of way.
Nice carbonation, fine and mild.
I'm not getting much of the flavours described on the bottle when I drink it, there's a big coffee hit at first, and a nice subtle grapefruit note - the roasted flavours are pretty dominant.

5% is a relatively low abv for a black IPA, and it's missing any really hops.  Not sure how I feel about it. It's nice enough, I guess.



On the scale of
  • Damn tasty.
  • Pretty damn tasty.
  • It's beer.
  • Not really tasty.
  • Ew.
This beer gets

It's beer.


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