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23rd January 2012

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Black IPAs are a contradiction in name — they’re black, but they’re India pale ales. New York’s Southern Tier knows this, which is why it named its imperial Black IPA Iniquity, meaning the opposite of good. But the beer is the opposite of the opposite of good: We love its big citrus-hop flavors, which cut straight through the roasted-malt heft.

Black IPAs are a contradiction in name — they’re black, but they’re India pale ales. New York’s Southern Tier knows this, which is why it named its imperial Black IPA Iniquity, meaning the opposite of good. But the beer is the opposite of the opposite of good: We love its big citrus-hop flavors, which cut straight through the roasted-malt heft.


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