3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
This beer was worth trying, it is far from a standard pumpking beer with extensive spruce addition and little else to offer. The beer is worthy trying, but seems more like a novelty save the opportunity for a gin lover’s beer to shine.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle shared by a friend. Pours a dark brown color with a medium tan head. Malty and sprucy nose with some grassy hops and a bit of a vegetal character. Chocolate malt flavor with a bit of fruit before a sprucey and grassy hop finish.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
This is a big thanks to mcox90. Pours deep deep brown the head is large bubbled and fades quickly to nothing. Nose really let’s the spruce come out with big pines, herbal notes, purfume, potpourri, roast, and sweet malts-also some piney herbal hop aromas mixed in. Flavor lends the same only a very intense pronounced piney herbal resinous flavor along with fruity and sweet sugary malt flavors. Medium full body. really really interesting twist. liked it but hard to drink the whole thing.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a two finger light tan head that fades slowly leaving some lace. Opaque brown color, some yeast left in bottle. Medium carbonation and medium bodied. Spruce nose. Brewer is right - nothing like pumpkin pie, spruce (there’s a whole forest here) adds the bitterness, malts are in background, not finding much pumpkin. $4.54 for a 22oz bottle from Beverage Warehouse Winooski, VT.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle share at Paul’s. The aroma is chocolate, brown sugar, pine. The appearance is translucent brown, tan head. The flavor is chocolate, brown sugar, pine needles. The finish is pine needles. Medium to medium/thick in body. Good.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle shared at Paul’s Dec 3rd tasting. Pours a deep murky brown body with thin lacing. Aroma is pumpkin spice and chocolate. Mouthfeel is nice with notes of spice, roasted malts, chocolate, spruce.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Paul’s tasting. Pours a ruby tinged mahogany with a thin white head. Spices, dark malt, coffee and a hint of roast. Dark sweet malt, earthy notes. Malt on the finish, a bit more spice and roast. Nice enough.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours dark brown/black with a medium tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, spruce tips, faint chocolate and some spices. Flavor was slightly sweet and roasty with chocolate, piney spruce tips. a hint of pumpkin and notes of spices with a earthy dry finish.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 17/20
12oz on tap at Farmhouse Tap and Grill.
Appearance : Pitch black with small head.
Aroma : Roasted malt with very light pumpkin spices.
Taste : Roasted malt with light coffee. Light spruce. Very light pumpkin. Finish is rather dry. A bit thin even.
Overall : Interesting stuff. Interesting spruce notes but not enough pumpkin flavors. I immediately compare this with Midnight Sun Threat and it’s not helping at all. Feels a bit too thin for an imperial stout.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
The stout pours dark chestnut brown with an off white head. The aroma is light sweet spruciness that comes off as candy hops a bit, no roasted malts. The flavor is light spruce hoppiness that serves well on a lighter body than expected for a stout.
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