BLAKKR Black IPA

When breweries come together to create beer, it's just a beautiful and wonderful thing, like making art with a friend.  The fine, fine folks over at Real Ale, Surly, and Three Floyds have teamed up to craft one real hell of a black IPA called BLAKKR.  The beer is dark with a good foamy head and smells sweet and spicy and hoppy all at once.  It's kind of different, like a mix of grapes and hops.  The taste is malty and sweet at first, a nice combination of dark fruit, citrus, and hints of coffee, but those soon give way to the spicy hops and some well balanced bitterness.  There is also a pine note to the aroma and flavor.  All in all, this is one of the best black IPA's i've ever had...so you should drink it.  And at 9% ABV, it packs a nice, solid punch.

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