Dense from start to finish with a thick booziness, Černá Raketa begins with a sharp bite on your tongue. Not a flicker of light makes it through your glass, and the thick, syrupy, smooth texture of this Black IPA coats your tongue and gives your throat a pleasant little burn as you wash it down. With an underlying hint of the sort of sweetness you taste in molasses, Matuška’s Černá Raketa is warms you from stomach to bone.