Table Talk Chocolate Pecan Pie Ale
Wormtown Brewery

Pours a three-finger brown head that fades slowly, leaving a ring. Black color, no highlights. Medium carbonation and medium bodied. Nose is light chocolate. Flavor is hints of chocolate and pecan. 16oz white can. $3.95 Beverage Warehouse, Winooski, VT.

 

 

Okay ... so this isn't a terrible stout'y-porter or whatever it is supposed to be. It tastes like a KBS if you took all the flavor and punch out of it. So basically what you get is an average headless stout. You could probably put a lot of these away as there isn't too much taste here.

There lies the biggest thing which makes me rate sub-3. There is NO pecan pie taste!!! I envisioned a chocolatey carmel beer with nutty undertones. You get ZERO caramel ... and maybe a slight barely present taste of pecan. The ooey gooey picture of a chocolate drizzled slice of pie? Yeah ... that ain't in there.

Oddly, if you were going to partner with Table Talk to make a beer, why would you pick a flavor of pie thats not even that readily available? I mean, everyone remembers eating those little blueberry pies. Why not make a beer that tastes like blueberry, graham cracker and aluminum to recreate a Table Talk pie? Or a Boston Cream Pie?

Sorry but Wormtown makes a great IPA in aland of pulpy juicy IPAs its nice that their IPA is not juicy. But when companies start doing partnerships like this and putting out bland product with little-no promised flavors, it errodes my trust as a buyer.

So the mouthfeel is like cold black coffee ... little to no head ... tastes like chocolate, dust and water with ever so slight pecan shell notes. A bit of flat store brand diet cola note. The smell is of coffee, chocolate and a faint cinnamon.

Overall, sorry Wormtown ... this is a dud. (And I've heard that about the previously released Pumpkin Pie collaboration as well.) Good brewery. Bad beer.

 

Poured into a 16 Snulip glass canned on 12/22/2020. Pours a very attractive brown with a 2 finger sticky khaki head that leaves a bunch of thick streaks of lace, with excellent retention. 4.5

Aroma cocoa nibs, pecan, toffee, and vanilla beans. 4

Taste follows cocoa, pecan, toffee, toffee, and vanilla pretty basic but tasty. 4

Mouthfeel is bigger than average, not really dry, soft creamy carbonation, and at 6.6% ABV it drinks a little bigger. 4.25

Overall this is a nice, I will say Stout but not really sure what they call it. 4

Can from the Packie shared with Paul
Dark brown bordering on black with a thin off white head that dissipates. Big milk chocolate flavor with maybe a hint of nutty sweetness. Decent enough chocolate porter but light on the pic flavors imho.