Laughing Dog Dogzilla Black IPA

Brewed by Laughing Dog Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Ponderay, Idaho USA

650 ml bottle courtesy of ditmier. Thanks Eric. Pours a dark brown color with amber highlights when held to a light. The head is beige and huge with great retention and crazy lacing. The nose is piney with resins, citrus, thyme and yeast. The flavor is biter hops forward with a moderately biter piney hops, some earthy dust, walnuts and sweet roasted malts. The mouthfeel was a bit uneven, with great carbonation. The finish is long with lingering earthy hops. Overall: A very solid IPA, but just a bit harsh.

Extra large beige head over the aptly named black body, along with very good lacing. Sniff this while the head is stilll intact and there are citrus and herbal hops. Beneath the head the earthy aroma is engulfed by the roasted caramel malts. Taste seems to flip flop a bit as well. The initial hoppy bitterness gives way to flavors of caramel, coffee and rye bread, before the hops reappear in the aftertaste and linger for awhile. Interesting; a step above ordinary and a step below complex.

Reddish tinted but mostly black. Very large pillowy tan head. Sweet roasted malts and pine. I quite like the flavor. Nice mix of big resinous hops and roasted malts. For as large as the head is it is not at all over carbonated.

22 ox bomber. Pours a hazy ruby amber in color with a larger than average tan head. It has a slightly roasted hoppy aroma with slight notes of spice. Tasting, it shows a little more of the hops, toasted nut, spicey pepper, honey, pine, and citrus notes detected. Interesting brew.

Poured a hazy brown-red color with a small off-white head. Roasty aroma with notes of glue and dough. Mildly sweet. Dry roasted malt flavor. Long and moderately bitter finish. Light-medium bodied.

Bottle pours a murky redish brown with a hugeh tan head., hoppy lightly roasted aroma and a a little papery. Flavor was, well, a roasted IPA. Not just adding the roasted porter flavors but exchanging some of the fresh citrusy IPA notesfor the dark roasted ones. Moderate body and this one was a bit more carbonated. Each time I poured a bit mre into my glass I was more careful. It didn’t matter,. it foamed like crazy. Over all it was interesting and nice.

22 oz bomber for $5.49 at Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville. Pours a dark brown with a gigantic frothy tan head. Reminds me of a rootbeer float. Aroma is rich in grapefruit and pine- strong and nice. Flavor is soap, pine, plastic, and malts. Would be better if not for that strange plastic flavor.

(22oz bottle) Large beige head atop cola brown body. Aroma is moderately sweet, roast, caramel, pine.earthy, light anise. Taste is moderately sweet, pine, grapefruit, caramel, roast, light dark chocolate. Soft, light-medium body, low carbonation, very drinkable.