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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Dark brown color with tan head. Sweet rich malty aroma. Sweet roasted malt flavor. Piney spruce flavor. Then molasses finish.

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!

Black pour, creamy tan head. Aroma of smoked pine trees! Some citrusy hops too. Flavor is hoppy up front, light lactose, maybe a hint of cooked pumpkin. Finishes with an alcohol warmth. This is pretty damn good. Would get a higher score if it was from a "cult" brewery.

Extremely dark brown pour with a beautiful, thick, tan head. Aroma holds chocolate and roasted malt, sweet pumpkin spice, creamy nougat, caramel, and a touch of evergreen hop. Flavor brings a lot more of the spruce hop out that mixes quite nicely with the roasted malt. The sweet malt presence and pumpkin comes through as well. This is quite a tasty imperial stout- not as complex or full as the top tier of the style, but really good flavor and definitely one of the best efforts coming out of Vermont (excepting HIll Farmstead, which has placed itself head and shoulders above). Palate isn’t super rich, but still holds some good body. Nice genuine brew!

22oz Bottle. Was my palate off last night? I hated one of the best reviewed ciders on the site and really enjoyed an Imperial Stout in the 5th percentile for its style. Anyway...while the nose was quiet on this and a bit soft in roasted character, the flavors lived. A dark, dark brown was the color, with a good finger of cocoa-colored head. Flavors were balanced and played well. Nice bright roast, a tiny bit of caramelized squash flesh and a slightly deodorant-like spruce twinge, however, not overwhelming or punishing. I expected something over-sweet, over-spiced, and over-alcoholic, but got a restrained reasonable mildly nuanced interesting seasonal stout. I appreciated that it didn’t have the overbearing density and booziness of more popular examples of the style, while still packing in a lot of flavor for a relatively drinkable example. Rock Art surprised me here.

Nose of dark roasted malts, dark chocolate and some nice spruce tips. Earthy and roasted, light sweetness, really no hint of pumpkin spice at all. Dark brown, almost black pour with a nice tan head. The flavor starts roasty, moves through some nice dark chocolate, bitter with light sweetness, nice spruce tip notes in the finish. Bitter and roasty with hints of pumpkin meat here and there. Nice and interesting.

Near black pour with a creamy tan head. Aroma of smoked malt, pine, spice and some citrus hops. Flavor is slightly sweet and malty with some pine, hops, spice and a hint of pumpkin coming though on the finish. Interesting, and not bad at all!

Black with brown edges, nice retention, frothy head, nice lacing.. Roasty aroma, milky, creamy, lightly spiced, light chocolate... A little piney, creamy, roasty, not any real pumpkin flavor, a little sweet... Medium full body, creamy, dry finish... Different, nice beer...

Courtesy of Daknole. This beer pours an almost black hue with a short lasting tan head. I wish the aroma were bigger. It is pumpkin and coffee with dark fruit. Flavor only offers a bit of pumpkin and more a big stout. Some nice pine hops that add only a smidge of bitterness. The feel is smooth and rich. Plenty of malt in this baby. It is sweet with a unique kind of spiciness, perhaps it is the pumpkin. This is a delicious and big stout and an underrated one.

Pours a dark brown color with an off white foam head. Has an aroma of caramel, spruce, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Dry, caramel flavor with some muted cinnamon and nutmeg. Very unique. Love that.