Põhjala Mets
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"Forest"
A forest-inspired Black IPA brewed with hand picked spruce tips and forest blueberries.
It’s a new version of the now retired Pesakond "black forest IPA" which was also lower in abv (5.4%)
"Forest"
A forest-inspired Black IPA brewed with hand picked spruce tips and forest blueberries.
It’s a new version of the now retired Pesakond "black forest IPA" which was also lower in abv (5.4%)
3.7
249 reviews
Tallinn, Estonia
Community reviews
Bottle @ Mallas Kabakka, Seinäjoki.
Poured near black with a thick white head.
Berries, citrusy, hoppy, roasty aroma.
Flavor has citrusy hops, roastedness, some licorice, mild ashy notes,licorice. Bitter hoppy finish. Solid stuff.
Combi van stout en ipa. Het stout gedeelte is vrij sterk, Ze hadden er beter een stout only van kunnen maken zonder het ipa gedeelte, dat was beter geweest.
Bottle from Clapton Craft. Dark pour with a tan head. Roasted malt, some coffee, smoke, wood, hint of chocolate, pleasantly full body. Nice beer.
Black beer, brown head. Snell is malt and airy spruce. Taste is dark chocolate, spruce, malt, fruit. The spruce really adds something light and refreshing to a big, hefty black beer. Distinctive and very tasty.
0,33 l. Bottle from Spicy Days Zagreb. Dark color with off white head. Dark malt and coffee aroma. Fruit, citrus, bitter, sweet and dark malt aroma. Bitter finish
(> hop (physa, mangue), amande, μ-choco-café, first complexe, violence-douce, très dans-la-forêt & épicéa-esque, wow)
On savait déjà que Põhjala était tombé sur la tête, mais là en plus la brasserie se vautre dans la sciure de bois avec cette Mets, Black IPA qui fait partie de la bien nommée "Forest Series", la bête étant brassée avec des myrtilles forestières et des pointes d'épicéa. La versée est brune opaque dans la grande tradition des brunes de la brasserie qui ne plaisante pas sur le sujet. Mousse très fine beige tirant sur le brun clair et stable sur 2 millimètres. Le nez est tel qu'on se l'imagine : forestier et terrien avec ses malts bruns et ses notes de bois résineux intenses. Mais c'est une Black IPA, donc nous avons également droit à de beaux agrumes et des notes florales qui se marient étonnamment bien avec les arômes de sous-bois. L'épicéa ressort vraiment bien avec une attaque très franche dès qu'on hume le breuvage pour ensuite laisser la place aux autres arômes. Au détour on retrouve des notes de fruits rouges et noirs, du bois de rose, du pamplemousse et du citron vert, de la cassonade, de la vanille et du caramel au beurre salé, du pruneau, des notes de verveine et de menthe ainsi que de tourbe, de foin et d'herbe fraichement coupée. Un sacré melting-pot ! En bouche, très belle texture pleine avec une belle rondeur au palet, amertume douce avec des saveurs d'aromates (thym, romarin, coriandre et marjolaine), sucres impeccables car présents mais en retrait, grande levure très soyeuse, alcool qui fait le job en accompagnant gentiment la troupe. En rétro-olfaction, la terre et les arbres tels une tribu d'Ents en furie ! Sous-bois après la pluie, résineux, champignons, odeurs de silex et d'ozone après l'orage, voilà une bière authentique ! La longueur est excellente avec des notes de café et de cacao amer sur le final... Tout est là, rien à jeter, du vrai, du pur, du véritable. On n'est nulle part hormis dans la forêt boréale avec la brume et les pitons rocheux au dessus des cimes. Une grande bière. Bouteille 33cl, Boissons du Monde, Saint-Egrève.
Bottle from Stanislaus Brewskovitch, Zwolle. Aroma is dark fruits with spruce, fruity and resinous hops, blueberries, dark malt, touch of espresso, some citrus and grapefruit. Flavour is moderate sweet with a firm bitterness. Body is above medium. Nice update from Pesakond, bit more sturdy with a lovely forest fruit and piney hop aroma, complemented by dark malt and coffee.
Bottle from eebria.com. Black cooour with a thick tan head. Aroma berry pine and big roasted malty coffee. Taste light bitter to medium sweet. Full body.
Unclear dark colored beer with a verry good creamy head.
Taste is coffee, dark malts, chocolade, some sourness and a good bitterness.
Потрясающий шоколад в аромате, елочки, ягоды, почему то ассоциации с мятным шоколадом, но мяты тут вроде не ощущается. Внешне пиво темное, с густой кремово-шоколадной пенкой. Есть осадок. А вот вкус кажется простоватым, на глотке четкая сладость, а потом сразу вступает в бой травянистая горчинка, и она остается на послевкусии очень долго. ЦО2 довольно приятно балансирует с этим вкусом.
PrZeciętne, malo wyraziste black ipa. Ładnie mu ze szkla patrzy, barwa jest, ale zalega jakaś popiolowa goryczka wykręcająca. Nirorzyjemmy ten posmak, męczący.
330ml bottle from Good Spirits Co. Wine & Beer, Glasgow (£3.20):
This one got off to a great start with plenty of citrus flavours & subtle hops coming through alongside some pine & various background fruits but it wasn't long before the darker malts started to make themselves known with some chocolate opening proceedings before the caramel malts & roasted flavours started to come through stronger. The beer was a varied one with a nice balance between flavours & a smooth but excellent mouthfeel that helped the beer go down so easily too.
Bottle. Black with strong tan head. Char, licorice, grapes, pine. Very charry with spruce, coffee, vanilla. I can't find the blueberries though. Smooth palate and a full body. Quite likeable and boldly charry for a black IPA.
Bottle at home. Pours jet black with beige head. Nose is faint bitterness and mainly cocoa powder. In taste the bitterness is more prominent, while the cocoa powder remains and there’s come chocolate and some earthy notes as well. Closes with long, cocoa/chocolate-y and bitter finish, has light to medium body and average carbo. I dont get any of the advertised fruits, but other than that it’s a fairly decent brew.
Pours thick pitch black, large brown head and excellent lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, spruce, berries and burnt caramel. Tastes roasty-bitter, very stout-ish, roasted malts, caramel, dark berries, dunk, chocolate, grass, light citrus hops. The stout character takes over the IPA. Which is what I like. Full bodied, viscous, soft carbonation and long finish. Very interesting ale.
Pours black with beige head. aroma: coffee and roasted malts taste: sprucesprouts, roasted malts, coffee, grassy hops and hint of blueberry. nice!
Thick black pour, frothy beige head. Nice nose, roasted malts, coffee, grassy hops. Citrus strong.
Thin to medium body, medium carbonation. Light texture, slight thickness. Rich aroma, lots of stout qualities here. Coffee grains, hops in the aftertaste. Some grassy hops, pine. Spicy herbal notes. Long finish, bitter and dry.
Fine black IPA. Robust and tasty.
On tap at Cafe Sara, april 25th 2017. Dark brown body with a beige head. Aroma of ashes, coffee and grass. Taste is roasted with piny hops and grass. Dry bitterness with a bit harsh fruit finish.
Bottle 330ml at home. BBE 2018-12-28. Batch 578. From Alko. A black beer with beige head. Dark malts, licorice, grapefruit, chocolate, roastiness and hops. Medium body, creamy texture, average carbonation and bitter finnish.
Original rating 7-4-8-4-15 from bottle 330ml at Konttori 2016-10-18.
Aromat przeciętny, trochę żywicy i nic poza tym. W smaku brakuje typowych dla IPA klimatów, za to mnóstwo żywicy. Ciało takie sobie. Gdzieś cała reszta schowana. Jedno ze słabszych piw Pohjali.
Dostałem to czego szukałem. Zniesmaczony poziomem polskiego kraftu w stylu Black IPA, zapragnąłem punktu odniesienia. To piwo mogłoby nazywać się idealny balans, nie ma co prawda szalonego ataku żywic, kawy, itp. itd. ale jest idealna pełnia. Zafiksowałem się co prawda na dodatku "blueberries", i moim zdaniem są i regulują kwasowość w tym piwie. Klasa światowa!
Drank with Masum @Kandinsky 23-04-18. Really good one! Awesome how the forest fruits are noticeable and go well with the subtle dark chocolate.
Blackish brown colour with beige big head on top. Looks damn good. Aroma has pines, grass, berries, dark chocolate, roasted malts, espresso coffee. Taste has roasted malts, coffee, berries and pines, ending is dry with coffee and slightly bitter with pines and grass hops. Fullish body and medium carbonation. Black IPA straight from the forest.
Aus der Flasche im 2018-04 im LagerLager Berlin getrunken. Dieses schwarze IPA hat ein volles, wunderbares Kaffeearoma und ein sehr sanfte Hopfennote. Es könnte fast ein Stout sein doch am Gaumen ist es klar ein IPA. Aber auch hier ist der Hopfeneinfluß mit leichten Citrusnoten deutlich von der Kaffeenote überdeckt. Diese Kombination paßt sehr gut und macht Spaß im Glas.
Tap at armazém da cerveja. Dark opaque appearance. Thin brown head. Medium bitterness. Dryness is high. Aroma and flavour is roasted, cacao, coffee, fruity, hoppy.
330mml. bottle as part of the European Local Swap 1/2018, many thanks to rosenbergh for this one. Tasted on the 14/03/2018 at home. Black colour with a medium to big beige head. Aroma of roasted matls, burnt coffee beans, liquorice and some cocoa nibs. Taste is roasty and cocoa nibs. Finish is roasty and dusty. Next one please!
33 cl bottle served in a snifter. Poured black with two finger tan head. Aroma: intense dominating nose of spruce, then beneath the forest assault there's caramel, grassy hops, some chocolate, vanilla, coffee. I don't get blueberries in the nose. Taste: spruce again, then coffee, caramel, bitter grassy hops, chocolate, wet earth andere leaves,, nuts, light notes of blueberries, vanilla. Light to medium body with a long bitter and full of forest finish. Impressive beer, like a walk through the forest or coming home on a cold winter day and to be greeted by the fantastic aroma of the christmas tree.
Black with creamy head. Aroma has quite a lot of piney hop. Flavour has some fruity berry sweetness too. Full flavoured and pleasantly bitter.
330ml bottle at a private tasting at Zarazbirachi, Ruse, Bulgaria. Pours opaque with a thick foam-and-froth beige head, heavy lacing but no visible bead. Dark brown in colour. On the nose, complex citrus with hints of smoke. Very smooth in the mouth with fine carbonation. At first, strong citrus flavours, giving way to the burnt toast and molasses of a stout. A perfect balance of sweetness and bitterness, with just a touch of sourness. Overall, a citrusy IPA and a stout in one bottle.