FABPOW! Buxton Black Rocks & Heinz Alphabetti

Once upon a time, in a blog not too far away, Mark Dredge came up with the term FABPOW when writing about his food and beer pairing of the week. So it must be time for me to shamelessly appropriate - I mean, pay homage - to the term.

For this pairing, you will need:

- one bottle of Buxton Black Rocks
- two tins of Heinz Alphabetti
- four slices of bread (Warburton's Crusty preferable)

Warm Alphabetti. Toast two slices of bread. Pour Alphabetti onto toast. Pour Black Rocks into pint glass.

Serve.

Then, if you have far too much time on your hands, open the other tin of Alphabetti into a dish whilst toasting the other two slices of bread. Sort letters. Think about how good the food and beer pairing was. And say it with spaghetti-on-toast;

Calculate the total scores for looks, aroma and taste:

Find one-word to summarise

And be honest with how you feel about the term Black IPA:

Buxton Black Rocks is a great beer. Huge grapefruit nose, a kind of Black Jack chew flavour - in fact, if you're of a certain generation, try to remember what is what like to chew a Black Jack and a Fruit Salad at the same time. That gets you close to what's going on with Black Rocks. No roasty, big fruity. Is it a Thornbridge Raven-beater? For sure. Dude.