Although there is a subtle, underlying difference between a India Style Brown Ale and a Black IPA, the initial massive hoppy bitterness in a beer that you are not expecting it, is still the takeaway.

Light burn all over the place, the beer is brash, aggressive and jarring, all the things that brown ales really shouldn’t be – I hate this combo of unnecessary aggro in a style that should be caressing me, not kicking me in the nuts.

The maltiness and the nuttiness of a brown ale are interrupted and broken buy the hops – not my thing at all.

Apparently dry hopped with Amarillo and Simcoe, the beer speaks green hops which clash violently with the brown ale malt base.

18.8°, bottled May 2014.