Splinter Black
Tröegs Brewing Company

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From:
Tröegs Brewing Company
 
Pennsylvania, United States
Style:
American Imperial Stout
ABV:
11%
Score:
85
Avg:
3.78 | pDev: 18.52%
Reviews:
100
Ratings:
172
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Oct 10, 2021
Added:
Oct 21, 2010
Wants:
  89
Gots:
  68
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Ratings by RandomBattle:
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Reviewed by RandomBattle from New York

3.65/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
They should release this in the summer time so I don't have to freeze my nuts off to get it. Anyway...

Appearance - Whoa head! This was one seriously carbonated beer. I thought perhaps it was my pour, but not so much. It looks awesome though, off white rocky head that dissipates REALLY slow, which is not always a good thing.

Smell - When reviewing stouts a lot of people tend to use the word oak in their general listing of smells. I never really get a sense of that with most stouts, maybe if its aged in bourbon barrels and the bourbon isn't polluting the aroma of the beer. This beer is almost all oak, and for obvious reasons. Great oaky smell as well as some fainter vanilla, chocolate, roasted malt odors.

Taste - Yep, more oak. Yay, I guess. If you like your beers aged in oak this one will not disappoint. Great oak flavors, along with sweet vanilla, caramel, coffee, and some chocolate, with faint raisin notes in the finish. Enjoyable.

Mouthfeel - As I said before this beer is a bit of an overcarbonated mess. It has a pretty average mouthfeel for a stout, not too thick and not too thin.

Overall - I wouldn't really travel far and wide to get a hold of this one (even though I already did). However, it is a very solid offering from Troegs though. I am looking forward to the next beer in their Splinter series, whatever it may be.
May 04, 2011
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by edthehead from Maryland

4.5/5  rDev +19%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Rich dark brown appearance with a fizzy tan head, low retention, sparse lacing. Cocoa, caramel, tobacco, oak. Medium to thick body, medium to high carbonation.
Oct 10, 2021
 
Rated: 4.36 by SadMachine from New Jersey

Oct 09, 2021
 
Rated: 4.33 by madelf66 from Pennsylvania

Nov 18, 2016
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Rated by brother_rebus from Maine

2.96/5  rDev -21.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Thin soy sauce
Aug 29, 2016
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

3.9/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Man I remember the hype behind these before they were released. I think it was prolly on the backs of splinter gold and blue that this one came in ultra hyped. Then it fell flat on the demand side, and for good reason says I.

Poured black, absolutely nothing wrong with the appearance here, other than maybe a gripload of carbonation. The head was that cherry cola head appearance. The aroma dropped a substantial amount of wood, vanilla to a lesser extent, but man, fresh cut wood.

Taste, wow, did they puree some toothpicks into this? So woody. The carbonation seemed livelier than it should have been, it was very much so. The heavy wood amount contributed lots of dryness inside the mouth.

Interesting beer, super heavy oak presence. Solid viscosity all around.
Apr 24, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by birchstick from Colorado

Jan 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3.85 by wethorseblanket from California

Oct 04, 2015
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Reviewed by portia99 from Massachusetts

3.81/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
750ml C&C bottle poured into a snifter.

A - Pours near black in color, clear enough to see bubbles rising through the body up to the finger of cappuccino colored head that slowly falls leaving behind lots of lacing on the glass.

S - Roasty, a bit caramelly, light astringency, licorice, woody oak, mildy boozy.

T - Roasted malt up front, some charcoal, wood, chocolate, mild vanilla tho not nearly as present as I expected given the process to make this beer.

M - Medium-full bodied, light carbonation, roast and char, caramel and chocolate. Pretty much par for the course for the style.

O - Hoped for more than this when I traded for it, pretty much got what I expected based on reviews. Solid imperial stout, but so many excellent examples out there that this just blends with the rest of the pack.
Feb 15, 2015
 
Rated: 3.25 by mrn1ceguy from Illinois

Feb 12, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by PA-Michigander from Pennsylvania

Dec 07, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by spycow from Illinois

Nov 01, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by barflybastard from Pennsylvania

Oct 24, 2014
 
Rated: 2.6 by Draesith from Pennsylvania

Oct 20, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by lpotter from Pennsylvania

Jul 21, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by zestar from California

Jun 26, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by dfhhead25 from Pennsylvania

May 23, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by Thesoundandthefury from Washington

Apr 27, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by thebigredone from Wisconsin

Mar 16, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by BARFLYB from Pennsylvania

Jan 01, 2014
Splinter Black from Tröegs Brewing Company
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 172 ratings