Spruce Goose
Steamworks Brewing Company (US) in Durango, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.18
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
From May 2007
Purchased at Wilbur's Liquors in Ft Collins.
This one pours from 22oz bottle(best by March 07) a clear amber with a small head of foam that shrinks quickly and theres' just some spotty foam and almost no lacing.
The smell hits my nose with spruce and some spiciness.
The taste has big spruce notes up front with some sweet caramel malt and spice...I'm getting cinnamon flavours galore.
Further sips in and there's some earthy flavour coming through along with a touch of alcohol. The aftertaste is pretty spicy, again cinnamon, and overall, the flavours don't seem to work particulary well with each other. I think I'll let it warm up a bit as I had this one in the fridge.
Well, I let it warm up and I can't say I notice any improvement. Too bad. I won't seek this one out again.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle 2009: Barley and toffee nose. Hazy ochre, headless. Slightly sweet malt and toffee. Not very dynamic, but nice texture. Alcohol not noticeable. Not very woody, no hops. This probably wasn’t a great beer when fresh, but the age hasn’t hurt it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Pours a mostly clear amber with a medium, white head. Aroma of spruce and pine, with faint notes of caramel malt. Flavor is intensely piney, what I would expect drinking sap might be like - and not in a good way. Didn’t get much sweetness or [pleasant] bitterness. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with more spruce, sticky and not very enjoyable. Perhaps thisdeserves another try, but my first experience was decidedly not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750ml bottle sampled at the DC Local tasting. Pours a transparent, amber brown with very little wispy white head. Aroma is... spruce, shocker. Nose is also slightly vegetal. Flavor is sweet, almost candy like, root vegetables, caramel malts. Flavor is a lot better than the nose.
Drake (22934) reviewed Spruce Goose from Steamworks Brewing Company (US) 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
C&C 750 mL bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear reddish brown color with a thin head. Aroma is caramel, gummy bear like jellied fruits and spruce. Taste is the same gummy bear notes, mild spruce notes and caramel. Bitter finish. Medium bodied. Pretty good, actually.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Ugh, what the hell is this, this is absolutely not a spruce beer, there isn’t any spruce that I could pick up. has flavors of light toffee, and watered down hops. So upset, I was so looking for a spruce beer, damn it. 22oz bottle poured into a New Belgium goblet glass.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
pours a light tan head with orange/red color. Aroma is plenty of spruce. Taste follows, not sharp or overpowering, and blends with the malt nicely.