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Winter Spruce Porter
Newburgh Brewing Company
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- From:
- Newburgh Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Baltic Porter
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 79
- Avg:
- 3.18 | pDev: 28.62%
- Reviews:
- 1
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 06, 2015
- Added:
- Jan 10, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by gorbos from New York
4.43/5 rDev +39.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.43/5 rDev +39.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
The "piney" metaphor that people use for some hops becomes reality here, but without the hoppy bitterness.
It pours dark (of course) from 32-oz growler, with two-finger head that dissipates at a moderate pace. Smells of mint and roasted malts. The flavor reveals a woody backbone to a much weaker mint than the nose (it's that spruce in the description -- definitely not peppermint!), balanced by dry, somewhat milky chocolate. Medium mouthfeel. Not an overly sweet or alcoholic beer by any means, and not a hoppy one either, despite the clear piney note pawing at the relatively rich porter base.
This is really inventive stuff that seems to play on a common hop description -- which may surprise/turn off drinkers hoping for "piney hops" instead of actual pine! I loved it, though. On tap at Jacob's Pickles, NYC.
Feb 02, 2014It pours dark (of course) from 32-oz growler, with two-finger head that dissipates at a moderate pace. Smells of mint and roasted malts. The flavor reveals a woody backbone to a much weaker mint than the nose (it's that spruce in the description -- definitely not peppermint!), balanced by dry, somewhat milky chocolate. Medium mouthfeel. Not an overly sweet or alcoholic beer by any means, and not a hoppy one either, despite the clear piney note pawing at the relatively rich porter base.
This is really inventive stuff that seems to play on a common hop description -- which may surprise/turn off drinkers hoping for "piney hops" instead of actual pine! I loved it, though. On tap at Jacob's Pickles, NYC.
Winter Spruce Porter from Newburgh Brewing Company
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
13 ratings
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