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512 Black IPA

512 Black IPA

Rated 3.260 by BeerPals
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Brewed by 512 Brewing Company

Austin, TX, United States

Style:  American Black Ale

7% Alcohol by Volume

70 International Bittering Units

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Rather than simply darken up our current IPA, we decided several months ago to design an entirely new beer from the ground up. The beer features our Organic 2-Row base malt accented by additions of Crystal 60 and Weyermann Carafa III malts. This last grain is a special type of de-husked roasted barley imported from Germany that lends a charred black color and notes of roasted coffee and chicory without any tannic bitterness that would normally be contributed by the husks. The hop additions are many and generous, featuring Apollo, Horizon, and Nugget, clocking the beer in at 70 IBU. Over 22 pounds of Nugget hops were added directly to the fermenter in our first ever batch. The sum of these parts is a befuddling, beautiful beer with an ABV of 7%. Big juicy hop flavors meld with rich roasted malts to create distinctively delicious ale. Hop bitterness is significantly more aggressive than our normal IPA, providing an interesting departure from the hop “niceness” that is our norm, all in all, something worth savoring, though perhaps not for the faint of heart.

ID: 43206 Last updated 12 years ago Added to database 12 years ago

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Statistics

Overall Rank13687
Overall Percentile74.4
Style Rank162 of 342
Style Percentile52.6
Lowest Score3.4
Highest Score3.9
Average Score3.650
Weighted Score3.260
Standard Deviation0.000

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  • VIPINVELP 2001 reviews
    rated 3.4 8 years ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Clear black, small lacing foam. Chocolate, coffee aroma in taste and aroma, while also still bitter aftertaste. Great beer and my first of this brewer. want more. (Houston 201505)

  • SUDSMCDUFF 3781 reviews
    rated 3.9 12 years ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

    well, 512 in on the black ipa racket, lets see .. . Pours a deep brown with fantastic head, lacing is superb .. . the bastard gave him your home address .. . nice roastiness and a good dose of hops- this is how an american black ale should taste, balanced .. . another winner from 512 .. . My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

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