Basic Biculous
Saloon Door Brewing

 

 

 

Poured from a can into a snifter
Appearance – The beer pours a dark brown color with a one finger head of tan colored foam. The head fades rather fast, leaving just a trace of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is super strong of a roasted malt smell mixed with lots of pumpkin pie spice of clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mixed with these aromas comes a big coffee aroma mixed with sweet smells of brown sugar, molasses, and toffee.
Taste – The taste starts out with a big roasted and toasted malt flavor that is paired with a whole lot of coffee. Right from the start there is big spice flavors of cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg. Other sweet flavors of brown sugar and molasses are there as well, bringing a rather strong sweetness. As the taste advances the coffee and the spice both get stronger, all while the sweet gets more intense as well. Toward the end the spice gets even more intense and starts dominating the flavor, leaving one with a slightly bitter coffee and very heavily pumpkin spiced taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is thick and creamy with a carbonation level that is low. For the style and the tastes, the feel is pretty good, making for a very slow sipper.
Overall – A bit too intense on the spice and sweet. OK but nothing too great.

Appearance: Dark amber body, that is surmounted by a vast and fairly dense tan-colored head, with excellent persistence. Incredibly thick, somewhat coarse lacing adorns the glass wall in a sheet resembling Emmental cheese.

Aroma: The aroma is very pronounced, rather like pumpkin pie, but without any notes of crust or the pumpkin, itself. There is also a strong aroma of brown sugar, and lesser roasted coffee. Curiously, there is no hint of alcohol that I could detect, even at the considerable 11.8% ABV.

Taste: Opens with very sweet roasted coffee, soon followed by generous amounts of pumpkin pie spices. Particularly notable are ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. There is also an undercurrent of dark malt that runs throughout the taste. Despite the very high ABV of 11.8%, no flavor of the alcohol is present in the taste, although it is pleasantly warming. The taste closes with a pleasant wave of roasty coffee and brown sugar, with a lingering bit of burnt caramel..

Mouth feel: Soft, rich and very full, with a creamy mouth feel.

Drinkability/notes: A simply wonderful, over-the-top dessert. It would pair exceptionally well with pumpkin cheesecake.

Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce aluminum can, served in a La Fin du Monde tulip.

 

 

Look: deep dark brown, medium tan head that stuck around for a bit
Smell: coffee, malty goodness, little chocolate, some nutmeg, hint of pumpkin, smells like a dark fall beer
Taste: a coffee mocha choclately-ness, tasty roasted malt, sweet (can't place it at the moment), cloying bitterness on the end, a hint of pumpkin of course
Feel: low carbonation, full body
Overall: big fan, I like this a lot. its like a dark, mocha coffee pumpkin beverage. Does not taste 11.8% at all!