Dark O' The Moon Pumpkin Stout
Elysian Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Winter|
Score
7.14
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Spookily smooth and chocolatey, Dark O' The Moon will leave you howling for more. This pumpkin stout touts a full body with a creamy texture and features notes of cocoa, brown sugar, vanilla, dark fruit, and pumpkin. A perennial favorite and 2010 Silver medalist in the Great American Beer Festival Field Beer category, Dark o' the Moon is brewed with Great Western pale, Crisp 77° Crystal, Munich, Cara-Vienne, roasted, chocolate and Special B malts. Pumpkin in the mash, kettle and fermenter. Bittered with Magnum and finished with Saaz and crushed cinnamon.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at blind tiger. A very nice stout, good blend of malts & the pumpkin contribution is minimal.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2025
at 00:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Very dark, black brown color. Brown head. Aroma is spice cake and chocolate. Flavor is a burnt toast, fruit cake type of flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:37
10/10
Heck yes!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz. bottle. Black, with a smaller, frothy, brown head. The aroma is raw cacao, chicory, resin, nutmeg, and grass clippings. Not very sweet, with a harsh, sticky bitterness. Medium to heavy body, grainy, and clingy. Kinda aggressive, but not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2024
at 23:05
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours oily black with a thin tan head. Aroma of chocolate and rye bread notes. Taste has burnt malt, heavy cocoa. Palate has cinnamon, burnt nuts, coffee, cocoa. Eh.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2024
at 22:48
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Thanks, Jim! Ozzy70) Bottle. A- Cocoa, strong holiday spice. A- Black color, dark liquid, no head. T- Pumpkin, clove, cinnamon, strong nutmeg, cocoa, slightly tangy. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, astringent finish. O- I was excited for this but the nutmeg was so ungodly overpowering that it was a bitter spice bomb. Combined with a tangy gourd flavor of rotten pumpkin. Either a bad bottle or very unbalanced considering it's sorta high rated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2024
at 18:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep brown pour with a slight orange tinge. Smell goes more with toasty and roast malts, and is not overwhelmed by pie spice. Also picking up roast pumpkin or pumpkin muffin. After that great nose, the taste is kind of a letdown. A bit over roasted. And now there's too much cinnamon coming in. But at least the slightly bigger abv can be detected. Just gets kind of harsh for a fall beer.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2023
at 01:41
8.4/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2022
at 17:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Shared bottle at BBT november 2021. Dark brown with medium beige head. Aroma of pumpkin spices, dark malt, nougat, chocolate. Taste, chocolate, pumpkin spices, nougat, marzipan. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2021
at 20:07
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Shared with the boys at BBT 11/2021. Med-thin body, surprisingly so. Med-high carbonation. Lots of malt flavours, crackers, biscuits, slightly nutty, caramelly, also chocolate, light coffee. This is combined with moderate pumpkin spice mix, it works together really well. Med-high sweetness, medium bitterness, med-light warmth. Rich, complex, intense, well balanced. Very good.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2021
at 20:06