Infusco
Rock Art Brewery in Morrisville, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.42
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CLW (17000) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
22 oz. bottle from Ryan and Casey’s Liquors for $6.35. Smoked malt nose. Some light dark fruit.Dark brown color with particles of yeast on a slow pour. Tasted is a really funky and loaded with smoked. The smoked peat over powers everything else in this beer. This really should be listed as a smoked beer. Like drinking campfire ashes. I had a hard time drinking 12 oz. of this stuff.
CosmicCharlie (9705) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Pours deep mahogany into a Sam glass. Oh no the head crackles worse than a coke and recedes to nothing. Smoked gouda aromas. Sharp with smoked gouda front to back and into the lasting sour and bitter finish. I like the gouda...but not the appearance, palate or finish.
ben4321 (11632) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Location: 22 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 3/17/12
Aroma: The nose has some roasted malts, a little smoke, and some fruity hints
Appearance: This one pours a dark reddish brown color with a small head
Flavor: The taste is smokey and roasted malts most, it tastes much like the nose
Palate: The body of this one is medium, it has an average carbonation, and a decent drinkability
Overall Impression: This was an interesting one for sure. I have no clue how to classify it, and while I did find it interesting, I didn't find it to be a standout. It's certainly well worth trying.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Deep dark brown coloured body with a muddy glow and a very thin, fast-dying tan head. Aroma of raisins, smoked peat, malt, caramel and a bunch of dirt & tobacco. Medium-bodied; Assertive malty and peaty flavour at first with a bunch of dirt and earthy flavours and a lot of caramel and sweetness to finish it all off. Aftertaste shows more peat and smoked characters with some malt and a very light spiciness at the end. Overall, a decent beer, not sure what category it truly belongs in, but not a bad beer - just not a great one in an overly defined category. Worth trying if you can find it to sample the breweries special beers. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Liquor Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 11-July-2010, sampled at home in Washington on 20-September-2010.
jcwattsrugger (14801) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22oz bottle @Joe’s NYC Gathering shared by jwc215–pours a foamy tan head with mahogany color. Aroma is anise/herbal, almost root beer, yeast. Taste is anise/herbal, almost root beer, yeast, some peat, some pepper. Medium body.
beastiefan2k (4725) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22oz bomber shared by JoeMcPhee at his gathering. I guess I am going against the grain here and believe me I have no love for this usually underwhelming brewery. It pours dark brown and clear. Aroma is strong with alcohol, sugary raisin, and a dry green herbal quality. Very cool, like an amped up Brussels black. Taste is very subtle, much less alcohol, light watery sweetness, and a lively fresh hop finish. It’s herbal, lightly sweet and has a soft mouthfeel. Definitely the best Rock Art beer I have ever come across. 8/3/7/3/16[BR][BR]Re-rate I can’t believe how crappy this beer was the second go around, again at Joe’s gathering. I was more sober but I can’t believe thats the reason. Just tasted like a mess, some weird spice and sweetness that’s followed bu a weak body. I don’t know wtf I was drinking the firs time but it must have been a different beer. 6/3/6/2/13
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2007 bomber drunk on 7/18/07
First of all if this isn’t bottle conditioned, this is one hell of an appearance. Huge, cascading, dense tan head is very stubborn and provides quite nice lacework. Body is a dark brown with deep violet tints on the edges. Clarity is medium-high to high.
I don’t know if this is a fresh batch of bottles (this beer was first released quite a while ago), but it certainly tastes like they put a fresh batch of anise in it, and lots of it. The classic "over-spiced beer that would otherwise be quite delicious". This texture stands first and foremost as the best trait here and would probably hold up against some of the better bottled Belgian beers. Tight carbonation in perfect amounts creates a creamy, soft mouthfeel. Behind the anise is well-attenuated, lightly crackery malt with caramel and toffee drizzled on for good measure and balance. No tacky yeast, not even that estery or phenolic (though this amount of spice would probably dominate any actual phenols in the beer). It does get a bit thin and dry by the finish, not just due to the spicing, but also from some stronger-than-average alcohol warmth. Clove phenols do emerge in time, further drying things.
Aroma is lightly sweet (caramel, raisins, sweet dough) and the malt mixes with the spice to produce almost a pumpernickel/cardamon sort of note. Not as dominated by the spice, is the aroma, but like the flavor, there is some latant alcohol sharpness with warming/breathing on the finish.
Perhaps after a year in the cellar it would lose some of the anise flavor, but the beer is already quite dry and I’m not positive the dark malts wouldnt oxidize prematurely as well. Commendable.
The deviation on the ratings thus far is very interesting...
notalush (7362) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Wow, just when I was about to give up on this brewery forever, they go and make this - dark burgundy pour, with a small ring of white lace - lightly smokey aroma, with notes of berries, leather, and some spicy character - crisp and somewhat tart, with notes of raspberry and other fruit skins - hints of cocoa, cloves, anise - a gentle, woody smoke flavor mingles intself in throughout - notes of cinnamon and dried flowers - alcohol warmth compliments the wood and smoke flavors - this is a really great beer, and is most certainly the best Rock Art I’ve ever had - if only more of their beers were this good.