I posted a couple days ago about mixing .5# of roasted barley in my IPA grain bill, at the LHBS. I got all picked out that I reasonably could. The brew is under way, but I now seem to have a black IPA. Oh well. I’m still making beer, eh? :
I didn’t know you actually brewed beer ???
DUDE!
You shoulda left it all in there
How can have a Black Pale ale?
Keith, do drunk you think you is?
And weaze, most beer styles were mistakes… Stout for example, imagine the cheap bastard that burned his barley and made beer with it anyway. Post pics, I’m interested.
I have an answer but there is NO WAY it is PC
“Brew beer” is a very loose term I use for what I do.
ha. ha. ha. FWIW it is not the beer that bugs me, it is the semantics. 
I love the idea of a Black IPA - even asked Babalu for a recipe recently) I just wish someone would come up with a more clever name. Not me. I’ve tried. I’m not clever enough. :
Deschutes Brewery has a Black IPA at their Public House. Here is the info from their site:
Hop Switch Black IPA
Pub Exclusive
The Black IPA (becoming widely known as a ‘Cascadia’ Ale for it’s inception here in the Pacific NW. Made with wonderfully complex dark malts and a myriad of hop varieties, you might just find yourself rethinking your favorite beer.
IBU’s 68.5 | Alcohol by Vol. 6.3%
You must be a white middle class male. Anyone else woulda just said what they were thinking and it’d be funny. :P
IPA - Noir
Roasted IPA
Black IPA is probably the best.
-OCD
Just doesn’t make sense. How can something be Black and Pale? The term “pale ale” came about because the beers were not brown or black.
How about India Black Ale? Like DFH’s India Brown Ale.
It’s an oxymoron; like Jumbo Shrimp.
Why does it have to make sense? It’s just a name not a new style.
-OCD
I guess if it is an oxymoron I can go along with that.
I didnt want to get into politics but:
We have a man residing in the White House who is half American (white), half Kenyan (black) and raised by his white Grandparents yet he is our first black President?
Its a Black IPA ;D
I think if they ever make it a style thats what they’ll go with
Just to be clear, I have no qualms about the style. For me it is purely semantics. I am no style nazi. But, IMO “Black IPA” has a certain ring to it I like better than India Black Ale (IBA). I just get hung up on the Black/Pale part. If you could change the “P” to another term that would better reflect the beer that would make more sense.
There ya go, now don’t you feel better?
And it was funny!
Thanks for sharing.
-OCD
“P” can be piceous (which means brownish-black) - but then if you use black it’s redundant -
and if you omit black it’s confusing to the original IPA.
BTW - that’s \pieseeus\
-OCD
I’m a Scorpio.