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[No Party JKor]

I've had a couple different commercial examples all with a roast flavour - certainly distinguishable from an IPA.

I've only had the one, it was more than an IPA with carafa special. The style really straddles IPA and American Stout, too much roasty and it can pretty easily be called an American Stout.

[cavman]

I've only had the one, it was more than an IPA with carafa special. The style really straddles IPA and American Stout, too much roasty and it can pretty easily be called an American Stout.

The line between american stouts and a black IPA is closing real fast as more breweries keep using carafa in their stouts along with high hopping rates. The major difference is starting to become that stouts are aged longer than Vermontian Darks so the hop flavor/aroma is diminished.

[positiveContact]

The line between american stouts and a black IPA is closing real fast as more breweries keep using carafa in their stouts along with high hopping rates. The major difference is starting to become that stouts are aged longer than Vermontian Darks so the hop flavor/aroma is diminished.

[BlKtRe]

I've only had the one, it was more than an IPA with carafa special. The style really straddles IPA and American Stout, too much roasty and it can pretty easily be called an American Stout.

I actually entered my exact same beer as a American Stout and Specialty as a Black IpA. It actually scored better in the American Stout cat. After reading the score sheets I couldn't tell what to improved on from each cat. One reason why I stopped competing as much (but thats a different discussion). My guess is in the Specialty it didn't score as high because those judges have some cool off the wall beers in front of them.

[Howie]

Black IPA makes no sense.

I brewed one way back in 2004 - I'm an early adapter, I guess. It was actually a pale ale, not an IPA.I called it a Blackened Pale Ale (like cooking fish), which makes more sense and explains the idea better than Black Pale Ale.I think the CDA name is kind of stupid. I lived in Georgia when I brewed mine, so I'm thinking Georgian Dark Ale!