Buxton Brewery, Black Rocks

Not sure about black IPAs on the whole. I can understand the concept, but I'm not sure if I can get behind the more extreme versions of it. Kernel do a great one, the Beavertown one goes more towards the darker flavour associations, and this one from Buxton goes further still. This Black Rocks had an amazing fruity nose! The maltiness was definitely in the ascendency over the fruits. The after-zing wasn't especially bitter. (In fact the main fruit flavours seemed to come through then rather than before.) Nice fruity repeat!