Smuttynose Gravitation

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Bottle thanks to one of my trading buddies. I’m getting bad at remembering what’s in my cellar. I’m gonna go with dchmela, though, because that’s usually a safe bet. Sorry if I snubbed someone. So, the beer: Pours dark brown with reddish/purple tint. Smallish beige head. Nose of lots of sugars and tons of raisins. Looking at the description, I was not surprised to see that it actually has said raisins in the recipe. Some prune and plum as well as Belgian sugars and some fruity yeast and burnt toffee notes. Hope you like raisins...

Clear deep red with a tiny beige head. Aroma had roasted malt, caramel and overripe fruits. Flavour went the same way. Finished sweet and full bodied.

Bottle thanks to SoLan and Beerlando. Pour is deep brown with thin tan head. Aroma is caramel malt, dark fruits, brown sugar, raisins, and light alcohol. Flavor is sweet dried fruit and malt up front with a pruney spicy finish. A solid quad, but quite a lot milder than some others. It did pack a bit more punch than expected.

Draft at Craft. Pours ruby edged with a dark brown body and off-khaki head. Nose is a pleasant medley of figgy fruit, raisins, cherry, blackberry, briown sugar. It is verty complex, with an above average density and flavor notes of dark malt, heavy raisins, berry, and some spicy yeast. This one is great.

22oz bomber from Shaw’s. Pours a translucent dark copper body with a thin film of quickly dissipating tan head. Raisin, date, nut, brown sugar, with a touch of pith and citrus in the aroma. Raisin, date, chocolate, caramel, brown sugar, toffee and coffee toward the finish. Medium in body with ample carbonation. Very drinkable for the style, abv, and complexity. A very good quad, tasty, balanced, complex, and drinkable for the style. Another slam-dunk from Smuttynose!

Bomber. Poured clear ruby with an easily-resuscitated cap of tan head. The aroma was chock full of golden raisins, with caramel and other fruity sweetness present.. touches of vanilla and rum on the back.. spicy warmth was down there, but was well-masked. Sweet again in the flavor department.. raisins, honey, and caramel primarily, with lesser vanilla and toffee.. some spicy, tart cherry dust and mild peppery yeast on the back.. warms up through the finish. Heavier-bodied with enough carbonation to keep it moving across the palate.. too sweet with too much raisin in here, not letting the yeast shine.. still a solid brew, though.

Pours a nice dark copper color with a creamy head. Nice floral aroma with hints of cherries. A very good quad.

Bottle. Aroma of dark fruits and candy sugar. Flavor continues in a sweet manner with all these sweet notes. Neither complex nor robust, which is actually somewhat forgiving given the sickly sweet nature of it. Still can’t really upgrade it for that though. Pretty poor.