Gypsy Outpost - Samoas Cookie
Humble Forager Brewery
- From:
- Humble Forager Brewery
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Porter
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.16 | pDev: 6.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 9
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 28, 2020
- Added:
- Mar 21, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
91
Outstanding
91
Outstanding
Pastry Porter
This variant of our specialty imperial porters/stouts celebrates the delicious flavors within our favorite Girl Scout Cookie. We brew a thick, rich, chocolaty base beer before conditioning upon toasted coconut, vanilla beans, cocoa nibs and cinnamon. Sip this pastry porter with your friends reminiscing about adventures in the deep woods.
This variant of our specialty imperial porters/stouts celebrates the delicious flavors within our favorite Girl Scout Cookie. We brew a thick, rich, chocolaty base beer before conditioning upon toasted coconut, vanilla beans, cocoa nibs and cinnamon. Sip this pastry porter with your friends reminiscing about adventures in the deep woods.
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Reviewed by chum_husk from Minnesota
4.2/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.2/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
16oz can
Glugs out near-black brown with no head. Nose is all cinnamon and chocolate malt. I would have called this beer 'The Chew'. A beautfully full feeling beer, like you could just chomp on it like a Hershey bar. Heavy choco malts with alcohol hiding but not quite hidden in the background. The added flavors are all there as accents, but I mostly taste the nibs..
For what it is: nearly a perfect beer. I can't wait to try out the other concoctions, as I'd give the nibs the axe
Jul 23, 2020Glugs out near-black brown with no head. Nose is all cinnamon and chocolate malt. I would have called this beer 'The Chew'. A beautfully full feeling beer, like you could just chomp on it like a Hershey bar. Heavy choco malts with alcohol hiding but not quite hidden in the background. The added flavors are all there as accents, but I mostly taste the nibs..
For what it is: nearly a perfect beer. I can't wait to try out the other concoctions, as I'd give the nibs the axe
Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona
3.87/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.87/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours a dark mahogany color with a tan head. Smell is chocolate and cinnamon. Taste is sweet this is desert in a can chocolate and cinnamon play well with some vanilla. mouth feel is smooth and sweet 12% ABV no where to be seen. This can is a good one to split.
Jul 15, 2020
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.98/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Shimmering black with mushroom color foam and slight lacing. Smell is the start here: coconut, milk chocolate, vanilla, caramel, with supporting cinnamon and booze. Taste is good for maybe 8 oz, then the sweetness starts to get to me, cinnamon does its best to cut the sweetness, but ultimately the sugary vanilla, chocolate and coconut prevail. Sticky, surprisingly warm, viscous but not heavy, an interesting porter body that works for me.
May 31, 2020
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.92/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Released April 2020; drank 5/26/20 @ the Yarchives.
Black appearance.
A rough pour yielded a nice, noisy dark tan head which quickly dissipated; almost no lace.
Coconut, dark chocolate, mild booze heat & faint cinnamon notes in the nose.
Thick, sticky mouthfeel.
Coconut, dark chocolate syrup & faint cream flavors; booze heat & mild cinnamon bite on the finish.
A bit much, with too much booze heat and a bit of syrup-y stickiness; however, it's drinkable.
NOTE: the brewery website makes it clear this is the same beer as Gypsy Outpost: Samoas Cookie
May 27, 2020Black appearance.
A rough pour yielded a nice, noisy dark tan head which quickly dissipated; almost no lace.
Coconut, dark chocolate, mild booze heat & faint cinnamon notes in the nose.
Thick, sticky mouthfeel.
Coconut, dark chocolate syrup & faint cream flavors; booze heat & mild cinnamon bite on the finish.
A bit much, with too much booze heat and a bit of syrup-y stickiness; however, it's drinkable.
NOTE: the brewery website makes it clear this is the same beer as Gypsy Outpost: Samoas Cookie
Reviewed by xdtfx from Illinois
3.47/5 rDev -16.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -16.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours dark, opaque with minimal fizzy dark brown head that dissipates quickly.
Not getting much on the nose. Maybe some earthy cinnamon, dark fruit, booze.
Taste is fine. It's definitely sweet and pastry-like. The adjuncts seem to have good balance as far as one not overpowering the other but muddle together. There isn't much harmony, nothing really pops or enhances one another. Finishes a bit boozy.
Starts with some carb but goes flat fast. On the thin side when compared to the other recent pastry porters I've had (Pressed series, Kittywampus series)
May 23, 2020Not getting much on the nose. Maybe some earthy cinnamon, dark fruit, booze.
Taste is fine. It's definitely sweet and pastry-like. The adjuncts seem to have good balance as far as one not overpowering the other but muddle together. There isn't much harmony, nothing really pops or enhances one another. Finishes a bit boozy.
Starts with some carb but goes flat fast. On the thin side when compared to the other recent pastry porters I've had (Pressed series, Kittywampus series)
Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
3.9/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Technically the stay at home order is over: I can go back to the Mall of America. Yippee. Celebrating that dubious honor with a 16 oz. can.
The pour is stout soul black, with a hefty nose of vanilla & cinnamon.
Gypsy Outpost is thicker than a 30 year old pawg. Luscious mouthfeel is the first impression, followed by heaps of big sweet malts, vanilla, mild chocolate, & a pinch of cinnamon at the end. Coconut is MIA, perhaps adding to the overarching sweetness. Holy Neptune, this is 12%? This easy-drinking light beer should come with flashing orange warning lights.
A bit pricey for what it is, but this proves once again that Forager’s game is in the darkness. Very good beer.
May 23, 2020The pour is stout soul black, with a hefty nose of vanilla & cinnamon.
Gypsy Outpost is thicker than a 30 year old pawg. Luscious mouthfeel is the first impression, followed by heaps of big sweet malts, vanilla, mild chocolate, & a pinch of cinnamon at the end. Coconut is MIA, perhaps adding to the overarching sweetness. Holy Neptune, this is 12%? This easy-drinking light beer should come with flashing orange warning lights.
A bit pricey for what it is, but this proves once again that Forager’s game is in the darkness. Very good beer.
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