Aroma of sweet fruity hops, like pineapple. Smooth clean taste with a very slight hop edge that fades into a fruity taste and mild malt taste. Very slight lingering hop flavor in aftertaste.
4.5 out of 5 stars.
Dark Horse Hazy Crooked Tree
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Dark Horse Plead the 5th
Nice sweet aroma of dark malt and bourbon barrel in the background. Slightly sweet taste at first, then seems to have a brief hop bite that quickly fades, then a mild roast coffee flavor enters in and lingers. Wow, amazing assortment of flavors, all very nicely done. The beer seems to have zero carbonation, but maybe that help makes it so smooth on the palate.
5 out of 5 stars.
Dark Horse Apricot Tree IPA
Sweet aroma of apricots/peaches. Taste is fairly smooth but has a little bitter edge just staying slightly in the background. Overall full palate of flavor that leaves mid fruit sweetness lingering. So delicious.
5 out of 5 stars.
Dark Horse Smells Like a Safety Meeting
It’s been years since I had this. I haven’t seen much from Dark Horse since they were bought by Roak, so I was excited to see a throwback. This was canned on 03/25/23, drank on 04/29/23.
Aroma has faint caramel malts with some sticky hop aroma. Taste starts clean with a slightly sharp hop bite, then slowly builds a thick hop bitterness mixed with some caramel malts. Finally finishes clean as all the flavors somehow disappear.
If you’re in the mood for a caramel-y IPA, this hits the spot.
4.5 out of 5 stars.
Dark Horse Reserve Special Black Ale
Dark roast malt aroma. Smooth initial taste with a sharp afterbite of malt darkness that’s a mix of dark chocolate and almost coffee (but not really ’cause I don’t like coffee). There is a strong hop flavor that then comes in, blended in with the malt darkness, and the whole thing finished very cleanly and dry. No real lingering aftertaste other than a mild smooth black malt flavor.
5 out of 5 stars.
Dark Horse Smells Like a Citra Safety Meeting
Bright sweet hop aroma. Strongish caramel malt bite, followed by hop flavor and a mind hop and caramel malt aftertaste.
4 out of 5 stars.
Dark Horse Joe’s Neighborhood
Faint hop aroma. Nice clean flavor of grain. No real hop flavor, but nicely balanced. Really tasty.
5 out of 5 stars.
Dark Horse Raspberry Ale
Faint raspberry aroma. Clean wheat taste with mild raspberry sweetness in the background. Very well balanced taste with wheat and raspberries balancing each other nicely. No artificial raspberry taste at all.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
Dark Horse Ollopa Dekoorc Eert
Slight sweet aroma. Crisp taste bite mixed with a mild sweetness at first which fades to a mild malt taste and hop flavor. Finishes fairly light with no significant aftertaste.
4 out of 5 Stars.
Dark Horse Smells Like a Safety Meeting
Slightly sweet hop aroma. Fresh flavor bite with some harshness. Leaves the mouth with a crisp flavor with hoppy hints around the edges. Further drinks have much more floral hop aroma, as it warms slightly. Bottled on 5/13/2014, drank on 5/28/2014, so it’s very fresh.
4.5 out of 5 Stars.
