Pumpkinator Imperial Pumpkin Stout
Saint Arnold Brewing Company in Houston, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular|
Score
7.39
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Imperial Pumpkin Stout
Important: let this beer warm to at least 50° before enjoying. This beer is black with some ruby highlights. The nose is full of pumpkin pie spices and some alcohol. There are notes of nutmeg, caraway and vanilla. The taste starts with chocolate malt with a hint of spice and rolls into a warm spicy alcohol taste which has the effect of creating the balance that usually comes from the hop bitter. There is some hop bitter on the finish, but not much. Overall, this beer finishes relatively dry for such a big beer. As it warms, the spices move forward in the taste and the chocolate moves to the finish. The pumpkin provides a pleasant undertone and a nice mouthfeel. The spices will probably fade some over time; they mellowed considerably while still in the fermenter.
Important: let this beer warm to at least 50° before enjoying. This beer is black with some ruby highlights. The nose is full of pumpkin pie spices and some alcohol. There are notes of nutmeg, caraway and vanilla. The taste starts with chocolate malt with a hint of spice and rolls into a warm spicy alcohol taste which has the effect of creating the balance that usually comes from the hop bitter. There is some hop bitter on the finish, but not much. Overall, this beer finishes relatively dry for such a big beer. As it warms, the spices move forward in the taste and the chocolate moves to the finish. The pumpkin provides a pleasant undertone and a nice mouthfeel. The spices will probably fade some over time; they mellowed considerably while still in the fermenter.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle with a faint marking of 111209 on it for a bottled on date. Pours with a near black body and a largish deep brown mocha head. Head slowly flattens out. Stays as a ring and leaves decent legs. Certainly a pervasive aroma! Highly spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon with a slight alcohol tinge. Bits of ginger and sweet milk chocolate. No dark roast, just sweet chocolate. A bit of pumpkin as well and a touch of leather in the background. Taste is very up front and strong in alcohol. A bit smokey too (oddly, tastes like it could have been pitched on the yeast slurry of DR8). Bitter and aggressive at first with pumpkin and sharp notes of nutmeg and ginger. This will be a love it or hate it beer on the taste. I dig the forwardness of it. Medium to high bubbles for the style. A bit of a thin alcoholic finish; its big but needs a bit more body. I look forward to seeing how this ages.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2009
at 17:22