Põhjala Pesakond

A black IPA brewed with fresh spruce tips and blueberries for the 20th anniversary of the Pesakond comic strip.

Malts: Pale malt, Cara pale, Crystal 150, Black malt, Carafa type 2 special

Hops: Columbus, Chinook, Mosaic, blueberries, fresh spruce tips

3.7

178 reviews

Tallinn, Estonia

Community reviews

3.5 Musta olut melko runsaalla keskiruskealla ja höttöisellä, pitsiä jättävällä vaahdolla. Eksoottisen hedelmäinen, lähinnä greippinen sekä havuinen tuoksu. Maku greippinen, pehmeän pihkaisen maltainen, hieman kitkerän paahteinen ja havuinen. Keskitäyteläinen, matalahiilihappoinen melko mielenkiintoinen kokonaisuus.

3.4 Bottle. Pours a dark brown black color with a long-lasting off-white head. Has a slightly roasted malty caramel hoppy aroma. Fruity malty caramel hoppy bitter flavor. Has a slightly roasted malty caramel hoppy bitter finish.

3.7 On tap at Grünerløkka Brygghus, april 2nd 2016. Black body with a tanned head. Aroma is roasty with blueberry notes and pine. Taste is floral, coffee, mild licorice. Pleasant roasty finish with a mild berry note. Pretty good.

3.8 Bottle@artturi. Opaque black color with tanned head. Aroma has roasted malt, tropical fruits, caramel. Taste is fruity with long malty and somewhat bitter aftertaste. Flavors of caramel, roasted malt, coffee, cocoa, berries.

3.8 ON bottle from great shop in Tallinn, (Humula something). Pitch black color, good foam. Medium aroma intensity; hops, pine, roasty, leather, malt and very light bluberries (hard to notice). Medium/full body & complexity. Solid bitterness, balances well. Very enjoyable

4.0 Aroma: Medium aroma of malts, caramel, dark fruit, tropical fruit, pine, roasted malts and hops. Appearance: Turbid/opaque ruby/dark brown beer with a medium brown head. Taste/Palate: Starts medium sweet with malts, caramel, dark fruit, chocolate, tropical fruit and pine; ends slightly bitter and dry with roasted malts and hops. Overall: This beer is rather intense, complex and balanced. Especially for the 5.4abv, this beer is extremely pleasant. The ’beer ingredients’, malts and hops, and the added ingredients, blueberries and pine needles, work great together.

3.8 Black with lasting head. Interesting flavour with lots of fruity, berry notes. There’s some tartness and sweetness. Finish has roasted malt bitterness.

3.2 Bottle 330ml. Pours black with decent beige head. Aroma of hops, grapefruit, soft pine, roasted malts, some coffee, fruity, spruce. Light bodied with a good carbonation. Flavor is medium sweet, watery, harsh, roasted malts, light ashy, light pine, coffee. Bitter finish and short. Thin and harsh bipa, had much better.

3.7 330 ml bottle. Black, with a thin tan head. Aroma of resiny hops, notes of citrus and roasted malt. The flavour is grapefruity, with roasted malt and resiny notes, and a lingering, dryish, bitter finish. Tasty.

3.5 Bottle. Deep brown color with a thick foamy beige head. Aroma of spruce, licorice and vanilla. Welk balanced, bitter taste with some initial sweetness. A bit oily feel. -- rated with beerbasher/winphone

4.5 Põhjala Pesakond has a lot going on and in a good way. Pours pitch black with a thick tan head. Aroma is like a spruce forest. Taste is an interesting mix of spruce, peat, chocolate and blueberries all in a drinkable medium body. It really is an interesting balance. Pesakond is highly recommended and I am looking forward to my next Estonian beer! Who would have thought.

4.0 Really dark brown color with tan head. Aroma has dark malts, dark fruits and lots of dank hops. Taste starts fruity, slightly smokey and roasty. Finish is also fruity with berry notes but also bitter coffee. Light to medium body but the mouthfeel is really smooth. Overall it’s a unique tasting black IPA with lots of forest fruits and roasted malts.

3.4 Bottled. A black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, bill berries, spruce, and straw, leading to a bitter finish.

3.4 33 cl. bottle. Hazy dark brown colour with an off-white head. Aroma and flavour of malt, hops, fruit, bitterness, berries and roasted notes.

3.5 Bouteille achetée Au PiBar - De couleur noir avec une bonne mousse fauve qui tient longtemps et colle bien au verre - Au nez des arômes torréfié, café, légèrement reglisse et chocolat, des houblon resineux, herbacé, légèrement agrumeux, pin - En bouche toujours beaucoup de torréfaction, café, pin, fruits (framboise ou autre chose), résineux et herbacé - Corp moyen, amertume moyenne/forte, carbonation correcte, sèche et amère, final amère et résineuse - Bonne black IPA, dommage que les friots et plantes ajoutée ne ressorte pas plus

3.6 Sample from 33 cl bottle. Pitch black with a fluffy, lightly tanned head. Fruity aroma with citrus fruits, caramel malts, dark malts. Taste is bitter. Medium bodied. Finishes dry and bitter with toasted notes and citrus fruits. Nice.

3.6 Bottle@yesprs - Black pour with off white head. Medium roasted and toasty malty with some hoppy notes, some definitive blueberry notes coming in, pretty decent overall.

3.2 33 cl bottle. Pours hazy dark brown to blqck with a small brown head. Aroma is solid hoppy, fruity and roasted malty. Bitter, toasted and fruity. Dry, crisp hoppy, herbal. Dry amd bitter finish.

2.8 This looked nice but had a tartness that I just didn’t enjoy. My wife liked it but it just tasted off to me. Not that hoppy

3.8 Bottled. Pours deep brown nearly black with an average tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, blubbery, citrus notes, herbal too and strong pine. Sweet flavor that ends up dry and nice bitter. Medium bodied, oily texture and soft carbonation. An excellent BIPA. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

3.7 Bottle. Sensoric. Pitch black with medium, semi-densed, light brown head. Poor head retention and lacing. Nice medium citrus (grapefruit) and piney aromas. Some roastiness in the background with moderate earthy notes. Taste is medium bitter, semidry to dry, with another sip it becomes more intense. Medium body, creamy texture, average carbonation, finish is medium bitter with roasted notes. In overall nice, refresinh black IPA with strong hoppy finish. Not very roasty.

3.8 Bottle from Boxbeers. Almost black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, rpasted malt, blueberries and moderate hoppy - pine. Flavor is medium sweet and rather bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish with a slight acidic edge. 180516

3.9 Nice aroma of red fruits, roasted malts coffee and chocolate. Nice black colour with a small bit foamy off white head. Flavours of pine meets chewinggom,.. a nice mix of bitter vs sweet. Red fruits and coffee, vanilla and earthy pine. Medium body, dry bitter aftertaste. Great!

3.8 Draft at tread well park for lunch. Black pour nose is hoppy and dark chocolate. Tastes of dark chocolate, grapefruit, pine, roasted malts, some earth. Can’t say I tasted any blueberry. Fine bitter and roasty palate. Tasty.

3.9 33cl exchanging Freiburg Friendly Fire during Berliner Weiße Gipfel, tänan Peeter. - Blueberries, exotic hop fruit oils and spruce tips mixed to a mutually refreshing sparkle, mixed on cocoa-ashen malts. - Expressive nose, blueberry sweetness travelling in a minty-fresh spruce forest, contained by US C-hops. Well-engineered. Taste sees some ashen chocolate or dark malt accents which become more prominent towards the finish (filter coffee dregs), especially for a 5,4% "BAPA". Over all captures the essense of Schwarzwald quite originally, in fact with much more freshness and elegance, at such an Estonian distance than many a chocolate stout with brandy-soaked cherries.

3.7 Bottle 330ml. [ As Põhjala Pesakond ]. Unclear dark brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, fruity, pine - licorce wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, roasted, dark malt, grapefruit, pine - licorice wood. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20150926]

3.8 33cl bottle. Pours very dark orange brown colour with a huge good lasting beige head. Aroma of dark malt, bitter green hops, coffee. Taste of mild roasted dark malt, vanilla, bitter grassy hops, some coffee, okay!

4.0 Na początku z butelko aromat palonego słonecznika. Po przelaniu do szkła wychodzi nuta amerykańskiego chmielu, żywica, lekki owoce tropikalne. W drugiej nucie jagody. W smaku średnia goryczka. Znów pojawiają się jagody, szczególnie w posmaku. Lekka nuta leśna, pewne od świerku. Dość wytrawne. Nie bardzo mocno wysycone.

3.6 Drank with Liedewij 22-4-16. Okay black IPA, fine fresh nice hoppy taste, with the hints of the black malts. Easily drinkable.

3.3 donker bruin tot zwart met licht beige kraag. aroma van fruitzuur, den, hop, hars, natte bladeren. smaken zijn redelijk bitter, laurier, den, zwak/matig zoet, zwak zurig, rood fruit, glad/romig, matige body, nope.....