It's been far too long but the sun is finally out and Southern California is acting like what we pay for in cost of living expenses - which means bi-weekly bike rides to Naja's is back!
Poured into a pint glass offtap at Najas. The barkeep tells me this is a Black IPA but I smell no hops on the nose at all. Creamy head retreats to a lace on top - so far I behaves like an IPA. Dark chesnut brown opaque that is otherwise unremarkable. I don't smell a thing that could be hops - some chocolate malt tones but that's about it.
The beer has vague hop taste that lightly rests on the middle of the tongue and then is enveloped by a not unpleasant but unremarkable bready mouthfeel. What i enjoy about the black IPA style is its ability to e compass two of my favorite thigs about beer in one style - great mouthfeel and sticky hoppy bitter taste. This does one of those averagely and the other horribly. Some yeasty undercurrents but otherwise quite meh. The Beer Genius's dad has a saying that encompasses this beer - "yep, it's a beer!"
Life is too short to drink average beers, so I'd avoid this beer as it's not even worth trying to taste what a "bad beer" tastes like. Just go ahead and avoid this beer.
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