Spring House Kerplunk!

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

Serve in Snifter

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This beer is full-on chocolate from pour, to nose, to mouth, to finish. Great dessert brew.

Notes from old backlog: Dark, near black pour with a fluffy strong lacing khaki head. Quite chocolaty in the nose with a nice barley roast. Light body with a nice mild carbonation. Goes down easy. Simple flavor. Has a great creamy/silky character and is quite chocolaty. Finishes with a hint of salty barley roast. An easy and clean Imperial Stout.

On tap at the brewery. Reviewed from notes. Pours jet black with a tan head and some nice legs on the way down. The nose is straight sweetened chocolate. Delciious. The taste is liquid milk chocolate with some hints of darker, more bitter chocolate. Feel is nice and creamy with great carbonation. Really tasty, but a bit much for more than a six or so ounce serving. Serving type: on-tap Reviewed on: 10-26-2010

A: The pour is almost black with a finger of mocha head which subsides fairly quickly. S: Super, super roasty. There’s a lot of coffee and ash as well as a bit of milk chocolate and some dark chocolate as well. Not a very complex nose as it’s mostly dominated by the heavy roasted malt character. T: The intense level of roast follows through on the flavor. Lots of roasted malt, ash, and char. There seems to be maybe a bit of bleach in there, too. I don’t get too much chocolate, maybe a bit of bitter dark chocolate. It’s also sort of watery. M: The body is a bit on the thin end of medium with a medium level of carbonation. D: I liked Planet Bean quite a bit, so I was looking forward to trying this one, but it really didn’t live up to my expectations.

This is a very good stout. It is plenty "roasty", almost in your face. It held a medium head throughout and had a great full-bodied taste. The balance was maybe a bit off in that it was, as I said, a bit in your face. That does not amount to a bad thing though, it is a nice, hearty, dark beer.

On draft at Capones. Pours a pitch black with a creamy medium sized light brown head. Aroma of sweet malt, cocoa and creamy rich chocolate. Taste of baking chocolate, cocoa powder and sweet malt. Creamy.

Typical stout black color with a thin tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, and coffee. Flavor is mostly chocolate milk with hoppy ending. Nice beer!

5oz pour from a flight at Capone’s. Pour is deep chestnut with an inch of beige head that has decent retention, but very little lacing. Nose is creamy Wilbur’s chocolate (almost overloaded, and I’ve been in the plant) and java. Taste is just the same, but with roasted malt that lasts into the finish. This is a lovely chocolate brew, but it comes off as planet bean that had Wilbur’s chocolate melted into it. This is definitely a tasty brew worth a try if the chance presents itself!

[Draft @ Craft Ale House] Opaque black with a tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, a bit of smoke, coffee, and pine. Taste of roast, smoke, dark chocolate, tobacco, and light alcohol in the finish.

Draft at CAH SH PBW event. Pours dark blackish brown with 1-f tan head. Nose is huge choc malt, dark choc, cacao nibs, choc syrup, backup hops. Tastes rich, velvety, with tons of dark chocolate in the flavor, like a liquid 70% dark chocolate, backup hops, and a rich palate that gets a tad lighter as it warms, but it blows you away with dark choc throughout, and the hops meld well with the huge chocolate malt and rich chocolatee palate. Not sweet by any means, this one was the highlight of a very nice Spring House event evening. If you haven’t had this yet, there’s still some left, so get your ass over to CAh and get ya some, and do it today!