Super Spruce
Grimm Artisanal Ales

Super SpruceSuper Spruce
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From:
Grimm Artisanal Ales
 
New York, United States
Style:
Gose
Ranked #10
ABV:
5%
Score:
93
Ranked #3,318
Avg:
4.19 | pDev: 7.64%
Reviews:
75
Ratings:
330
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 09, 2024
Added:
Dec 13, 2015
Wants:
  33
Gots:
  65
dry-hopped gose w/ spruce tips.
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Ratings by 2dogbrew:
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Rated by 2dogbrew from Virginia

4.35/5  rDev +3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Feb 13, 2016
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by scootny from New York

4.09/5  rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Great brew. Cloudy liquid with a light head and a bit of lace.

Lemony nose with spruce.
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Delicious. Tart. Salty
Lemony. Perfect amount of spruce. Dry and clean finish.

Crisp carbonation. Thirst quenching. Light and crushable.

The perfect session brew when your want tart and salty
Feb 09, 2024
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Reviewed by mwilbur from Minnesota

3.53/5  rDev -15.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from pint can into cervoise.
A: Pours a clear pale lemon yellow hue with active carbonation jets fueling a 1 inch bubbly white head that quickly settles to a thin skim.
S: Lemon, salt, grass, and some grapefruit.
T: Spruce with soft lemon, mild salt, pithy grapefruit, and dry cracker malt.
M: Light body. Dry with delicate sweetness and a touch of tart.
D: Wish there was a bit more spruce. Decent for style but not excellent.
Jan 05, 2024
 
Rated: 4.17 by cambabeer from New York

Nov 05, 2023
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Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota

3.15/5  rDev -24.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Super Spruce! This damn beer was on my wants list for…six years? I dunno. I love spruce beers. 16 oz. can split with my wife.

Very light yellow with a bit of haze to it (not that kind) with an all-fruit nose of green apple, lemon, and, yes, spruce. I like.

Super Spruce bites. Lots of gentle sour with a spare chintilla of spruce that might be overlooked if you didn’t have your readers on (that one’s for you, fellow olds). The sour melds to make this feel more like lemon, without the true face one makes. Half this can was just fine.

Well. Needs more spruce. Then probably some more. And saltiness. Mostly just tastes like a standard sour. Decent enough.
Feb 18, 2023
 
Rated: 3.88 by Sound_Explorer from Washington

Jan 15, 2023
 
Rated: 3.77 by bschmidt_37 from Illinois

Dec 19, 2022
 
Rated: 3 by prisdefer from New York

Nov 13, 2022
 
Rated: 4 by Knapp85 from Pennsylvania

Dec 13, 2021
 
Rated: 4.34 by 322wingedfoot from Pennsylvania

Dec 13, 2021
 
Rated: 4.13 by edthehead from Maryland

Nov 21, 2021
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Reviewed by mothman from Minnesota

3.5/5  rDev -16.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bottle. From around 2015.

This was an easy drinking sour. Had a big lemon/lime flavor. Very sprite like. The spruce wasn’t that apparent. Was hoping for a much bigger pine flavor.
May 12, 2021
 
Rated: 4 by dsshuck from Delaware

Feb 04, 2021
 
Rated: 3.75 by smcel371 from New York

Jan 15, 2021
 
Rated: 4.15 by caffeinelogic from New York

Dec 05, 2020
 
Rated: 4.35 by The_Kriek_Freak from Pennsylvania

Oct 05, 2020
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Reviewed by TreyIsWilson from Michigan

4.23/5  rDev +1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
A - Pours a lightly hazed bright yellow with a large fizzy white head. The head dissipates quickly leaving leaving spotty lacing.

S - Aroma is lemon, green apple skins, grapefruit pith and spruce tips.

T - The taste is lemon, lime, sea salt, wheat a good punch of spruce tips in the finish.

M - Light body with medium/high carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a crisp dry finish.

O - Really impressive Gose. The flavors are bright and refreshing which make this the perfect beer for a warm day.
Apr 03, 2020
 
Rated: 4.24 by AD17 from New Jersey

Mar 07, 2020
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Reviewed by CraigDeMoss from Kansas

4.25/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Had this for the first time from a can packaged on 11/2019. Reviewing from a bottle packaged 10/2017 (says to drink fresh lol).

Initial ratings 4.25 across the board.

Golden straw with half-finger loose white foam head. Low retention and little if any lacing

Upfront big grapefruit candy and spruce (not pine). Lemony yeast on the back end along with a candy sour scent

Sprite, grapefruit, pine needles on the low.

Round and fluffy, somewhat fizzy, medium to full umami with good carbonation, even after 2 1/2 years. Not a lot to say about this in a bad light. One of my favorite beers of all time (Ratings won’t reflect this) I love spruce and I think sahati is one of the coolest and most beautiful styles of beers. I know this isn’t that but damn, it’s pretty close.
Mar 05, 2020
 
Rated: 3.71 by socon67 from New York

Jan 30, 2020
Super Spruce from Grimm Artisanal Ales
Beer rating: 93 out of 100 with 330 ratings