Intemperance
Tree House Brewing Company

 

 

 

Canned in December of 2019. Dark brown / black with a small amount of dense dark tan head. Not much retention, but a consistent mini-volcano in the middle of the glass where the carbonation seems to be centering. Aroma is roast and lactose and quite nice. Taste has plenty of roast and the faintest hint of vanilla, but the vanilla has left the building. Still tastes quite good. Medium feel. Good beer despite its age.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aggressive pour yields a 1-2 finger head of extremely dark brown foam, good density at first but you can literally watch it sizzle off, excellent stickiness to the lacing. The liquid is an impenetrable black, overall looks clear and free of particulate. The cornerstone of the nose is a mix of milk chocolate and vanilla, smells like a milkshake, eventually releases some clove and cinnamon, would not consider it nutty nor in any way roasty, might as well stick a Hershey's bar up your nose. Full-bodied, here the carbonation lends enough prickle to break up what would otherwise be a monolithic mouth feel. Spicier than the nose and yet somehow also sweeter, more sugary. Getting that "Christmas cookie" vibe which was advertised. Still not getting much nuttiness. But shows some roast as an afterbite. Arguably too dependent on chocolate flavors. Now, I happen to like chocolate so was generally okay with the beer. But I can see where others might wish for more complexity. (Canned 12/22/21)

 

 

 

 

 

Brown tinted black with a brown head. Cinnamon, vanilla cream, sweet chocolate, a kiss of honey, and lightly roasted malt nose. Taste features milk chocolate, light spice, vanilla cream, chestnut in that order of intensity, very sweet overall. Feel is very sweet almost to the point of cloying, spices are too weak to cut enough, roasted malt abides in the background. Very average christmas stout