Year of New Beer: Black Vanilla IPA, Horny Goat Brewing (WI)

Written By: Dion on 02/19/2015

On the surface, I thought this just might work. Roasted malts and woody tones on the nose, with a mild undercurrent of vanilla. On the tongue is a fairly rich, dark chocolate bitterness, which is followed by a pretty good piney hop bite...then comes the vanilla. And it's just weird. I like black IPAs. I like vanilla. I don't like black vanilla IPAs. Maybe it's for the same reason I don't eat bacon with coconut cream pie.