21st Amendment Back In Black - TheFoamingHead's Beer Reviews Volume 1 Episode 52

Style: Black IPA
ABV: 6.8%

From 21st Amendment:

Back in Black is our newest year-round beer available now in six pack cans and on draft. Brewed like an American IPA but with the addition of rich, dark malts, this beer has all the flavor and hop character you expect with a smooth, mellow finish.


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[scribisneato]

I had this beer tonight at a newly opened bar and I found it quite tasty but it is not an IPA. There is no hoppiness to it all. I found it to be much more like a stout. If it were labeled as a stout I would enjoy it. Unfortunately, I ordered an IPA that the bar was out of and I asked the bartender for a suggestion regarding a good IPA substitute. He suggested this one... complete fail. tasty beer, wrong category.

[TheFoamingHead]

@scribisneato This is a fairly new style and I think brewers are still trying to figure out exactly what they want out of it. With that being said, that was a poor job by that bartender.

[beerbrain420]

Wow, I had no idea that 21st Amendment was canning their product! I visited their brewpub in San Francisco a few years back and everything I tried there was excellent. I'm going to see if my local microbrew distributor can snag some of this stuff for me.

[TheFoamingHead]

@beerbrain420 Yea, they have jumped full force into the canned revolution.

[TheFoamingHead]

@TheEndosymbiosis It was interesting, thanks. I have seen some of his stuff before. I am currently researching a lot of very old brewing history.

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@TheFoamingHead I agree with your perspective, but thought you'd find the article interesting. Ron Pattinson (author of that blog) unearths a lot of really interesting brewing history -- fascinating if you're interested in the history of beer styles before about thirty years ago.

[TheFoamingHead]

@TheEndosymbiosis I did see the Post Road video, thank you. Also, thanks for directing me to the Barclay Perkins entry. I have several points of contention in that the article quotes a black pale ale instead of a black ipa. While this may be splitting hairs, they are two different styles. Secondly, just because it was brewed then doesn't mean that a style per se was created. It was brewed over 100 years ago and disappeared.

[TheEndosymbiosis]

The Brits don't like it when we claim too much credit for this style. The blog Shut Up About Barclay Perkins has conclusive evidence that they were brewing something like what we now call a Black IPA way back in the 1880s. I'd include the link but this is youtube so I can't -- but it's the first link that comes up if you google black ipa barclay perkins.

Otherwise, very nice review. Did you see that I name-checked you in my Post Road Pumpkin Ale review?

[ChadzBeerReviews]

@TheFoamingHead I think it was called "Patrick's Black IPA". They had it contract brewed, my bad. I forget who made it for them. But they said Patrick oversaw the brewing.