Pimp My Sleigh
Fat Head's Brewery in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Winter|
Score
7.04
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Over the river and through the woods to this rich, complex Belgian-style holiday brew. Complex aromas and essence of sweet dark malt, raisins, figs, anise, dark candi sugar, and spicy phenols. This beer will sting the toes and bite the nose, but no worries, the horse knows the way.
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Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12oz can pours out amber brown color topped with a sand head. Nose is Christmas spice and some hops. Taste is as the nose with the spice hit. Meh
stevoj (18327) reviewed Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz can from Acme Fresh. Dark amber pour with some reddish hues.Aroma brings winter spice, not much else detectable. Taste tries to be malty but is getting fcrowded ouit by the generic winter spice flavors. Didin't finish.
patrick767 (7169) reviewed Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours dark brown with a lingering tan head. It smells of Belgian yeast, dark fruit, and caramel. The flavor is sweet and malty with dark fruits, yeast, caramel, clove and nutmeg (but the spices aren’t terribly strong). This is excellent.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle from November of 2019, it is September of 2021 now, so a little aged but holds up rather well. 10.5%. Mild spice, well incorporated. Strong, full bodied, pretty true to style flavorwise.
Gripweed57 (8744) reviewed Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle. Dark brown color is barely translucent. Small foamy beige cap. Notes of dark malt and dried fruit in nose. Rich toasted malt flavor upfront. Earthy yeast notes. Think baked dark bread and raisins. Deliciously spiced with warming notes of toffee, dried fruit and vanilla. Complex and flavorful. Best indulged at about 55 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit to allow the complex flavors to emerge. Warming alcohol is noticeable in finish. Hard to find, but well worth seeking out.
Fruitsalad (2249) ticked Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 6 years ago
cheap (9533) reviewed Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1
Tap bowsers, nice place for a few new beers every week, go bowser! Quite strong no head, boozy initial impressions after the neutral nose. Over the top, quite rude. Spice on top of belgian yeast all across the place. Nasty nellie all alky. Rude, in yer face. Way too much for this cheap pale lager beer lover. Too much for my girlie taste buds, is that sexist? Very uncivilized. Boozy and warming. Just so freaking ruff around the domestic edges. Aging, perhaps for a decade, may smooth this out to something like off-sherry. Not impressed, just dizzy all round. Saw it coming but could not get out of the way fast enough to keep it from nocking me down heheheh.
Maurice (8362) ticked Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 8 years ago
superspak (10160) reviewed Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 11/21/2016. Pours fairly crystal clear dark ruby red/light brown color with a 1 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big raisin, plum, fig, date, cherry, apricot, apple, anise, pepper, clove, light banana/bubblegum, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, anise, and dark/bready malt sweetness; with great strength. Taste of huge raisin, plum, fig, date, cherry, apricot, apple, anise, pepper, clove, light banana/bubblegum, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal bitterness and yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark fruit, cherry, apricot, apple, anise, pepper, clove, light banana/bubblegum, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, anise, and dark/bready malt sweetness; with a great malt/spiciness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitter/spiciness, lightly increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, lightly sticky/chalky, and slightly slick/syrupy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is fairly well hidden; a small pleasant warmth lingers after the finish, with no booziness. Overall this is an outstanding Belgian strong dark ale! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, anise, and dark/bready malt sweetness; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV. Extremely rich, complex, and well balanced between yeast/malt flavors. Superb style execution all around. A highly enjoyable offering.
cellio (387) ticked Pimp My Sleigh from Fat Head's Brewery 9 years ago