Gingerbread Whoopie
SoMe Brewing Company
- From:
- SoMe Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 9.97%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 13, 2024
- Added:
- Dec 13, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Fitzy01 from Maine
3.18/5 rDev -16.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.18/5 rDev -16.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Not getting any gingerbread and seems a lil thin
Dec 22, 2020
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
4.19/5 rDev +10%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +10%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I've had both the original Whoopie Pie Stout and the Peanut Butter Whoopie Pie Stout from SoMe, a decent-to-good brewery based out of York, Maine, and I like both of them but have never thought either particularly stood out. The peanut butter one, in particular, felt like a very safe treatment of the adjuncts and failed to wow me, but I'm looking forward to seeing if they can to better with some spices in this, their "Winter seasonal" version of Whoopie Pie!
The pour is pretty damn nice, Dark brown color that builds up to a solid inky-black void in my glass, topped off with a medium-khaki head of suds that lingers for a while before sinking to a full finger, leaving behind some pretty commendable lacing. Nice legs, too! As I recall, the pour for PB Whoopie was good, too, but the rest left me wanting more, so let's move on.
So, this beer's recipe actually includes gingerbread cookies, lactose, molasses, and spices... that's pretty cool and a bit more dedicated to the concept than I originally thought. I mean, even the Hardywood Gingerbread Stout and its variants don't actually use the cookies themselves, or the molasses by my recollection (though it does use honey, now that I look it up... but that seems odd... whatever). The nose here is... surprisingly great! I get a good hit of roast and some sweet chocolate notes before picking up the piquant gingery spice and notes of nutmeg and allspice/clove. There is certainly some "cookie" in here, as well. Wow, I'm actually pretty impressed... at first. However, it seems all good things must come to an end, as this starts to weirdly get metallic after ten or so minutes in my glass, which really taints a good thing.
The flavor profile is pretty good, with a hit of chocolate and roast upfront. It's a tad thin, though it does bear some strong ginger and molasses flavors upfront, soda-like carbonation bubbling forth and disappearing quickly, with a hint of the vanilla in the finish. Like a cream soda, almost, but with a hit of dark, stout-like complexity as well. Slightly-chewy maltiness with a bit of an "English porter" feel overall... hop quality reminds me of Fuggles or Kent Goldings, as it's almost spicy or herbal here and there. A little lactose heft comes out after it sits a bit in my glass for a while. Overall, this is pretty damn good... the metallic weirdness doesn't continue onto the palate, luckily, and a lot of the adjunct elements are felt and tasted to a satisfying extent. Worth a drink!
Dec 13, 2020The pour is pretty damn nice, Dark brown color that builds up to a solid inky-black void in my glass, topped off with a medium-khaki head of suds that lingers for a while before sinking to a full finger, leaving behind some pretty commendable lacing. Nice legs, too! As I recall, the pour for PB Whoopie was good, too, but the rest left me wanting more, so let's move on.
So, this beer's recipe actually includes gingerbread cookies, lactose, molasses, and spices... that's pretty cool and a bit more dedicated to the concept than I originally thought. I mean, even the Hardywood Gingerbread Stout and its variants don't actually use the cookies themselves, or the molasses by my recollection (though it does use honey, now that I look it up... but that seems odd... whatever). The nose here is... surprisingly great! I get a good hit of roast and some sweet chocolate notes before picking up the piquant gingery spice and notes of nutmeg and allspice/clove. There is certainly some "cookie" in here, as well. Wow, I'm actually pretty impressed... at first. However, it seems all good things must come to an end, as this starts to weirdly get metallic after ten or so minutes in my glass, which really taints a good thing.
The flavor profile is pretty good, with a hit of chocolate and roast upfront. It's a tad thin, though it does bear some strong ginger and molasses flavors upfront, soda-like carbonation bubbling forth and disappearing quickly, with a hint of the vanilla in the finish. Like a cream soda, almost, but with a hit of dark, stout-like complexity as well. Slightly-chewy maltiness with a bit of an "English porter" feel overall... hop quality reminds me of Fuggles or Kent Goldings, as it's almost spicy or herbal here and there. A little lactose heft comes out after it sits a bit in my glass for a while. Overall, this is pretty damn good... the metallic weirdness doesn't continue onto the palate, luckily, and a lot of the adjunct elements are felt and tasted to a satisfying extent. Worth a drink!
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