Spring House Big Gruesome

Brewed by Spring House Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Conestoga, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: FEB 18, 2012 Served on nitro-tap, regular tap, growler, and from the bottle....at the Spring House Taproom. A – Pours jet black with a thick, creamy, two finger tall tan head leaving thick rings of lacing down the glass. S – Smells of rich peanut butter, bittersweet chocolate, dark roasted malts, and a faint whiff of coffee grounds. While the PB aroma seems to be fading a bit there is still plenty there to let you know what this one is. T - Starts off with a taste of the bittersweet chocolate quickly giving way to the strong peanut butter flavor and some dark roasted malt. The PB and chocolate are the perfect compliments to each other. The creamy feel begins to die down toward the end of the glass, leaving the body a bit thin. The finish is mostly dark roast, lingering for short while. I really liked this one, the flavors were all there. M - Heavy body and flavor with moderate carbonation. Creamy feel with plenty of dark roast in the finish, lingering for some time after consumption. O - Damn, this sure is one "yuck" beer. Not! If you can’t get chocolate PB from this beer I don’t know where you are gonna find it. I am glad we made the side trip down here to the taproom to try this one. Good stuff for sure.

UPDATED: MAY 17, 2013 Sample from Bill at Barcade. Poured dark brown with tannish head. Notes of chocolate wafer cookies, and light peanut butter. Thats about all she wrote. Pretty nice brew. Straight up sugar wafers.

This stout is full of flavor. Nice bitterness with chocolate and peanut butter throughout. Thick and creamy. Good stuff.

Delightful dark beer with a rather unusual taste...can't identify quite what n -The Djinn

Great peanut butter and chocolate nose with a nice chocolate after taste. Great unique stout beer. I will definitely be drinking again.

Opaque black color with a medium tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malts, floral hops, cocoa, and lot of peanut butter. Taste of roast, some lighter cocoa, pine, grass, and more peanut butter in the taste.

7/28/12 bomber from gettysburg tommy’s. pretty much black pour with a tannish head...creamy. aroma and flavor are of the most real, non infected peanut butter brew i’ve ever had.... roasted nuts, cocoa, toast, concord grapey-ness, toast, brown sugar and roasty grain....reminds me of nutter butters. creamy mouth feel from a medium body but nice and dry from the roast. 8/4/8/4/16+

Sampled at the Richmond 17th Gathering. Thanks Matt! Wow. How the fuck do they get the peanut butter aroma out of this???!?!?!?!?! Black pour with ring of tan head. Smells like a confectionary treat, like a nutter butter. Flavor is like peanut butter wafer cookie. Cool lable too.

Draft at mari’s. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. The aroma Is big peanut butter, milk chocolate, sweetness. The taste is medium sweet chocolate, rich peanut butter, really good. Nice medium palate.

Excellent beer. Obviously, very dark in color and dark head. Smells just like chocolate and peanut butter. Tastes just like it should. Good flavor. Nice aftertaste. Great beer! Will have another one for sure!