Full Grown Jack
Tupps Brewery

Pour is pitch dark, attractive head. Aroma is a genius mix of ginger and dark chocolate (works amazingly well). Pallette is a great mix of molasses, pumpkin, nutmeg, allspice and a hint of black coffee bitterness. This brew knocks you into place and demands your attention. Luckily, it's delicious, bring on the heavy abv!

 

 

L-Three fingered head right off the bat. Leathery tan colored head. Wasn't expecting this sized head. Pleasantly surprised.
S-Nice smell of cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and pumpkin spice. Some hints of roasted malts and dark chocolate give it more depth. Some dried fruit in there, as well as some earthy undertones. Very nice!
T-Follows the nose. Cinnamon, ginger, allspice and pumpkin spice, followed by some bitter dark chocolate. Very nice. The sweetness is balanced so well with the earthy and spicy notes. The pumpkin is very much prominent, but not overly so.
F-Full bodied mouth feel as expected. Some nice carbonation too.
O-A really fun and festive imperial stout. This is the best of this series that I've had. by far. It's a heavy hitter alcohol wise, so be careful!

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing opaque black in the glass with a one finger dark khaki head with great retention and nice lacing. Aroma of dark toasted malt, cinnamon, allspice and chocolate. Flavor is dark toasted malt with light char, cinnamon, allspice, bakers chocolate. Lingering dry chocolate and cinnamon finish with a touch of bitterness. Medium bodied with moderate creaminess, nice mouth feel. This is apparently a pumpkin spice stout rather than a pumpkin beer per se, but the malt is so rich it hardly matters (I like pumpkin in beer, so would have liked a bit of actual pumpkin). This delivers what it promises, a big, dark malty stout with a variety of pumpkin pie spices and a bit more with great bakers chocolate character. The chocolate notes really taste like semi-sweet baking chocolate, very authentic flavor that I've not noticed in stouts that don't have actual chocolate in them. Very nicely done. I like this a lot.

 

 

A: The beer is close to being jet black in color and has traces of dark brown near the edge of the glass. It poured with a short tan head that left a narrow collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of pumpkin spices are present in the nose along with hints of bourbon.
T: The taste follows the smell but has stronger flavors of pumpkin flavors and spices.
M: it feels medium- to full-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation. The bourbon lends some warming to the finish.
O: The combination of pumpkin spices and bourbon in this beer are interesting and unique.

Serving type: can

 

 

Pour is black with a huge thick cinnamon head. Great retention.
Nose is cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie, brown sugar.
Taste is cinnamon, brown sugar, nutmeg, pumpkin pie, chocolate. Hint of roasted malt. pumpkin is super overpowering

Thick, creamy body

 

Appearance: Deep pumpkin brown with amber highlights, impressive coarse and dense head. Also head is very good wrt retention. Thick tasty lacing that looks great on the glass chamber.

Aroma: An epic surge of molasses and cloves smells, then nice caramel, cinnamon, bananas,, very sweet alcohol.

Taste: Caramel followed by pumpkin pie spices, then ginger and cloves appear with some cinnamon,. Its a spicy, warming alcohol including molasses hints.

Mouthfeel: Very thick and rich, exceeds most IPAs.

Drinkability/notes: Outstanding and I can enjoy a single can like I do with bourbons sniffers.

Presentation: Impressive Jack pumpkin design 12 ounce aluminum can. I have poured many into large tulip glasses for best enjoyment

 

12 fl oz can:

One of the better pumpkin spice stouts I've tried to date, marrying both base stout and pumpkin spice (clove, allspice, maybe cinnamon) to good effect.

Could be roastier and more dry, but it's a drinkable brew for its monstrous 12.1% ABV. I'm impressed how well disguised the ABV is.

High B- / WORTHY

 

 

 

pours deep brown with a tanned foam head with moderate retention and leaving blotches of lacing as it settles to a barely defined halo around the cap.

smells bakers chocolate, molasses, and roasted malt with heavy doses of fall spiced pumpkin jazz (cinn, nutmeg, clove, brown sugar, yams and melted marshmallow)

taste is straight forward yet slightly muted version of the aroma.

lower carbonation and thick body. finishes slightly bittersweet but smooth with a slight booze heat