Superchunk
Foam Brewers in Burlington, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.88
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Tasting notes, espresso beans, dark chocolate, rich berries
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Viper666-Qc (10199) reviewed Superchunk from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dégustée au printemps 2017 sur place (De mes notes). .
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Superchunk from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Draught at the brewery, 3/22/17.
Dark ebony with deep amber-mahogany highlights and a tan head atop showing good retention.
Rich char, vanilla, oily roast and treacle with tons of baker’s chocolate and ash on the end. Some alcohol comes through and the attenuation seems very high here, as there’s little fudge and only moderate to light caramel-like character.
Odd soy, peanut brittle and tar-like notes in the flavor seem heavily given over to the specialty malts with little regard for balancing base malts. I got a lot of strange off-notes, with tons of peanut and soy, almost DMS-like. Low carbonation, medium-bodied and not really boozy but just strange. Not trying to go against the grain here, but that’s how this one came off. Neither Nelson nor I wanted to finish it.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Superchunk from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks to whoever corrected this right away, props to you. I’m really not an idiot.
But I poured my portion into a snifter.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black sort of color with a nice looking waft of foamy off white head. Gentle dissipation. Sliding lace.
The aroma had some intense roasty coffee beans beating at a nice sweet cocoa powder. Tough sort of espresso sweetness seems to come out as it warms.
The flavor blends the sweet espresso and cocoa powder to the roast ever so nicely to glide into the aftertaste gently. Quick dry blended finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body, perhaps just a touch closer to medium, the more I think about it. Good semi-dry to wet feel along my tongue, very nice balance.
Overall, another high quality imperial stout by Foam Brewers. Perfect for a snow day in mid March in Vermont.