Rock Art Extreme Pumpkin Imperial Spruce Stout

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Morrisville, Vermont USA

Serve in Snifter

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Cola brown color with a thin off-white head. Aroma of roasted malt, pine, and hint of pumpkin. Pumpkin sweetness followed by roasted malt, pine, and chocolate. Thin body-more porter-like. A very good beer.

Bottle at a friend’s, picked up in Maine by him. Never would have guessed this to be a stout. Pours a deep brown, not really black with a tan head. The nose is lightly tart, resiny and a touch vegetal. Odd. On tasting, it is again tart with a moderate astringency. The spruce is clashing overall here and more of the vegetal notes come through. Faint brown sugar and cocoa. What a weird beer...

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small white head. Nose is lightly roasty with some chocolate and some piney hops. Palate is full, fluffy with a nice bite. Flavors of chalky malt, piney hops, raisins. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Aroma is malty, caramel, chocolate, and lots of spruce. Color is black with tan head. Taste is sweet and very little bitterness with lots of malts and caramel. Fully bodied, somewhat thick with a bitter finish. Overall, I was looking for more pumpkin, which wasn’t very apparent in my tasting. The spruce was definitely there, but I think it overpowered the pumpkin.

Bomber from Fred. Thanks Fred. This is a good beer. Very seasonal. Spicy and good. It’s a nice match for the impieral Stout. Go find yourself some!

Vermont hippie beer time. Dark and nearly still looking beer. Aroma is roasted squash and spruce. Taste is a bit bitter and astringent from the pine. Just a bit of roasted malt in the back. Bit of hard mineral after taste. very english ale tasting. grows on you but not like any imp stout or pumpkin beer I have tried before. I would say the spruce element is most defining in this.

I believe this is a 2011 bottle. Pours a mahogany brown, almost black color. Half finger head fades after a moment leaving an egg shell colored ring for a head. Aroma of bourbon, chocolate syrup, and charred oak. Taste is juniper berries with espresso beans. Moderate alcohol booziness and slight oxidation on the end. I got this as an extra in a trade and figured it would be quite a bit past its prime. Even still it’s not terrible and I would definitely get this or other Rock Art beers again.

22oz bottle picked up at the brewery in Morrisville, VT. Pours a black body with a finger-width, frothy, brown head that dissipates slowly and leaves a moderate lacing. Aroma is malty sweet with big dark chocolates, caramel, spruce, and a medium roast. Some molasses, dark fruits, and a mild earthy spice. Flavor is similar. Spruce, earth, and roasts stand out a bit more up front with some bitterness before the sweet malts comes in with lots of dark chocolate, caramel, and a bit of a molasses note. Some dark fruits and a slight nuttiness towards the end as this finishes pretty dry and roasty with a burnt note alongside a moderate, earthy and spruce spiced bitterness. Lengthy aftertaste following a fuller body and a moderate carbonation. Overall, a nice imperial stout with a sweeter malt backing and a dry, roasty, earthy bitterness with a good amount of spruce spice. Nothing special, but solid.

A - Half finger tan head. Dissipated fast. Dark brown S - Mild pumpkin spice, dark malts giving a porter scent T - squash, earthiness, pumpkin spice and spruce tips. Mellow hop profile. M - 30/70 carbonation, heavy bodied, smooth finish O - solid A beer. Could use more spruce tip.

Pours deep brown/black with a medium tan head. Aroma is lightly roasty with hints of dark fruit...mild pumpkin but not much spruce. Flavor has plenty of spruce, some tea notes, and very roasty malts. Mouthfeel is medium and the finish is lingering and burnt.