Midnight Sun Oak Aged Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter

Brewed by Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Anchorage, Alaska USA

First of all a big thanks to Hannont for this awesome 22oz bottle, 2009 vintage! Pours black with a smallish tan head that falls away very quick leaving a thin solid layer of tan foam cover the beer. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, pumpkin, spice and oak. Flavor is very much the same, roasted malt, chocolate and pumpkin are up front, vanilla, oak and bitter sweet chocolate in the finish. This is a very complex smooth drinking beer, everything just seems to be going right with this one. I love it! This is exactly what a pumpkin beer should be all about and the oak aging just seals the deal for me. awesome!

22oz bottle. Pours dark brown. Light pumpkin aroma. Flavor is much more smooth than the non-Oaked version. Rich malt character. Much more balanced.

Super dark with an off white head that fades fast. Aroma is great. Wood, vanilla, pumpkin. Taste is smooth, rich, and creamy. Nice spice balance and very sweet and delicious. Not much vegetable, pumpkin character. Some wood and creamy chocolate and vanilla taste too. Great!

22 oz bottle. Pours a dark brown, almost black, body with a fleeting fizzy light brown head that remained as a thin ring. The nose is just beautiful. Says it right there in the name: Chocolate, pumpkin, and oak all blending seamlessly. Great subtle spices play off of the chocolate malt really well. Just a little bit of oakiness. Beautiful complex and softly subtle flavor, the cocoa powder and pumpkin lead the way, but the nutmeg and clove work wonders on the back end. Very light on the oak, just a subtle raw wood taste on the finish before the cocoa powder comes on and lingers forever. Medium bodied with one of the softest textures that I can remember. Perfect gentle carbonation. This is just s beautiful beer.

I really liked this beer. It pours very dark brown, nearly black with a two finger cocoa head. The aroma is of chocolate, oak & pumpkin. The mouthfeel is creamy. The flavor is a great combination of chocolate & pumpkin. yum!!

Bottle… This beer rocks!… Pours tar-black with a small, creamy, well-tanned head. Excellent retention. The aroma is fantastic chocolaty decadence engulfed by autumn spices – cinnamon, clove, nutmeg – and real pumpkin with a woody, vanilla component that pushes my olfactory system way over the top. Not quite the aroma of CCB’s Good Gourde, but pretty darned close. Ultra full-bodied with a satiny mouthfeel and gentle carbonation. The flavor is luxuriant, sweet and buttery with notes of brown sugar, graham and cinnamon. Despite all the residual sugar, at no point does the taste become cloying… thanks to the time spent mellowing in oak and sufficient bitterness provided by carbonous black malt and aged hops. It’s like drinking a liquid S’more with a dab of pumpkin pie filling stuffed amongst the chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker. Major kudos to ygtbsm94 for making it possible for me to try this world class pumpkin porter!

Dark brown with a tan head. Big toasted wood aroma with pumpkin flesh, cocoa, sweet spices. Super smooth, rich mouthfeel. Fantastic flavors of rich, sweet chocolate, vanilla, malty spicy pumpkin pie, with some blackened malt bitterness to finish. Only Pumpkin brew better than this is a fresh draft pour of the un - oaked ICPP; looking forward to that next month.

Bottle, at BA Throwdown #2. Pours a very dark brown, creamy head, nice lacing. Very spicy nose, allspice, nutmeg, pumpkin, some woodsy notes. Spicy flavor, chocolate, pumpkin, some roast, big notes of allspice, cinnamon, some creamy vanilla. Creamy body, spicy, big roasty finish, medium body, and feels lighter with every sip.