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Pumpkin Imperial Spruce Stout
Rock Art Brewery
- From:
- Rock Art Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.56 | pDev: 15.17%
- Reviews:
- 89
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 25, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 11, 2009
- Wants:
- 17
- Gots:
- 16
"A big stout brewed in the colonial fashion with large amounts of pumpkins and spruce tips added to the kettle for flavor and bittering qualities. The pumpkins compliment the malt flavors, and were used to add sugars to the mash. What ever you do, do not think this is going to taste like pumpkin pie. 50 IBUs."
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Ratings by alleykatking:
Reviewed by alleykatking from Indiana
4.42/5 rDev +24.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.42/5 rDev +24.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Poured from 22oz bottle. Many thanks go out to chefmonty for this bottle in the Halloween BIF this year.
A- Poured a black color which was deep in color even when held to the light. One and a half finger brown head has great retention. Nice thick streaky lacing on the sides of the glass.
S- This has a intertesting smell. This of course is not a typical pumpkin beer. Chocoalte malts and light roasted malts come in from the start and stay till the end. The alcohol is very apparent from the middle onward. The spruce tips are very much there in the ending and that really threw me for a loop.
T- Bitter chocolate in the front of the beer. This really comes through the beer for the most part. A light spruce flavor in the middle gets covered up by a coffee ground ending before the spruce has a final bold burst at the tailend of the beer.
M- Medium heavy mouthfeel. Carbonation is good for the beer. Bitter chocolate and light spruce left on the palate. Spruce and light alcohol left in the aftertaste with a hint of pumpkin. Alcohol is lightly drying on the palate. The flavors are well balanced and very clean tasting. The flavors are bold and in your face at times.
D- The beer is great tasting. The drinkability on this might vary depending on if you like the spruce tips or not. I personally had no problem drinking my pint of this and wanted more but I split this bottle with a friend. The ABV I think is well hidden. A delight to drink overall interesting take on a pumpkin stout.
Oct 11, 2010A- Poured a black color which was deep in color even when held to the light. One and a half finger brown head has great retention. Nice thick streaky lacing on the sides of the glass.
S- This has a intertesting smell. This of course is not a typical pumpkin beer. Chocoalte malts and light roasted malts come in from the start and stay till the end. The alcohol is very apparent from the middle onward. The spruce tips are very much there in the ending and that really threw me for a loop.
T- Bitter chocolate in the front of the beer. This really comes through the beer for the most part. A light spruce flavor in the middle gets covered up by a coffee ground ending before the spruce has a final bold burst at the tailend of the beer.
M- Medium heavy mouthfeel. Carbonation is good for the beer. Bitter chocolate and light spruce left on the palate. Spruce and light alcohol left in the aftertaste with a hint of pumpkin. Alcohol is lightly drying on the palate. The flavors are well balanced and very clean tasting. The flavors are bold and in your face at times.
D- The beer is great tasting. The drinkability on this might vary depending on if you like the spruce tips or not. I personally had no problem drinking my pint of this and wanted more but I split this bottle with a friend. The ABV I think is well hidden. A delight to drink overall interesting take on a pumpkin stout.
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
22 oz. bottle to snifter.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a finger's worth of eggshell white foamy head that sat atop for a good minute before gently dissipating. Moderate lace ran about.
The aroma started off with a nice dose of the roasted dark malts, somewhat dark chocolate-like with a little bit of coffee beans and a mild sweet sprucy needle freshness playing subtly with a little bit of pumpkin extract. Quaint amount of allspice ever so slightly at the end.
The flavor moderately blended the sweet fresh spuce to the roast and sweetness of those malts. Pumpkin was faint. Semi-smooth aftertaste of the roast, spruce and pumpkin.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sipping quality about it. Some smoothness along my tongue. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, pretty nice imperial stout with the pumpkin qualities just faintly coming about. Nice Autumn evening sipper, if anything.
Jun 25, 2017The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a finger's worth of eggshell white foamy head that sat atop for a good minute before gently dissipating. Moderate lace ran about.
The aroma started off with a nice dose of the roasted dark malts, somewhat dark chocolate-like with a little bit of coffee beans and a mild sweet sprucy needle freshness playing subtly with a little bit of pumpkin extract. Quaint amount of allspice ever so slightly at the end.
The flavor moderately blended the sweet fresh spuce to the roast and sweetness of those malts. Pumpkin was faint. Semi-smooth aftertaste of the roast, spruce and pumpkin.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sipping quality about it. Some smoothness along my tongue. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, pretty nice imperial stout with the pumpkin qualities just faintly coming about. Nice Autumn evening sipper, if anything.
Pumpkin Imperial Spruce Stout from Rock Art Brewery
Beer rating:
81 out of
100 with
201 ratings
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