Big Nugget
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.57
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Big Nugget is a barrel-blended imperial stout brewed with chocolate, almonds, toasted coconut, and a hint of freshly roasted coffee.
It pours with a fluffy head in the glass and puts forth flavors and aromas of chocolate-covered almonds, coconut candy bar, vanilla-chocolate mousse, and chocolate-bourbon cocktail.
Over two years in the making, the depth of complexity in Big Nugget’s flavor profile is to be cherished and enjoy. MMM!
It pours with a fluffy head in the glass and puts forth flavors and aromas of chocolate-covered almonds, coconut candy bar, vanilla-chocolate mousse, and chocolate-bourbon cocktail.
Over two years in the making, the depth of complexity in Big Nugget’s flavor profile is to be cherished and enjoy. MMM!
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8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2026
at 20:35
8/10
Had this bottle since July of 24.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2025
at 22:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Sampled at Charlton location. Does Tatses like candy bar although not a candy I reach for. Dark black pour. Nose is coconut and cholesterol. Tastes much the same, with the rich soybsauce I got in all their stout samples, vanilla and light barrel.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2023
at 18:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a thick oily almost black from a bottle, no head that I noticed. Big dark chocolate aroma, some faint coffee and roasted nuts. Flavor is the same with a thick sweet caramel note. My word this is thick and oily. Pretty good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2022
at 02:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared in NH. Pours oily black with a foamy, tan head. Huge sweet flavour, super think, lots of crfany chocolate, raisins, strawberry, chocolate cake. Full bodied, oily and chewy, with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, sticky, lots of gooey chocolate. Quite sweet but enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2022
at 04:50
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle, 355 ml, shared with Zec, JFK10000, Max and Miro B at Miro's Grande 2022. Black with beige head. Chocolate, cocoa, sweet, bitter finish. Nice complexity. Medium sweetness. Medium to full bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2022
at 18:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottles from Matt: pours black with a small head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, slight roastiness. Taste is sweet, nice dark chocolate and coffee notes. Not too sweet. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2021
at 00:53
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, courtesy of Matt. Pours black. Chocolate, vanilla, raspberry, blackberry, coconut, fig, toffee. Nice oily body. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2021
at 00:51
8/10
Thanks Brian aroma is coconut, chocolate, caramel, light barrel. Taste is sweet, creamy, smooth, all flavors integrated, nice warming in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2021
at 15:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle drunk 5/22/21.
Ebony-dark chocolate, untested clarity. Dark tan head is small and slowly fades.
Big chocolate and butter toffee is pitted vs coffee and light alcohol dryness. Not sure who wins out so in that sense, there's some balance, but there's a lot of rich lactose and milk chocolate character that gets a bit tiresome.
Sweet and thick though perhaps not obnoxiously so, in the mouth with a velvety texture and low but fairly tight carbonation. I guess I'm just pretty over these massive lactose addition stouts; this one isn't even bad or anything and the coffee and dark chocolate character helps alleviate a lot of the monotony. But yeah. Not offering much innovation on the pastry stout here, even if it's a fine drink for what it is.
Ebony-dark chocolate, untested clarity. Dark tan head is small and slowly fades.
Big chocolate and butter toffee is pitted vs coffee and light alcohol dryness. Not sure who wins out so in that sense, there's some balance, but there's a lot of rich lactose and milk chocolate character that gets a bit tiresome.
Sweet and thick though perhaps not obnoxiously so, in the mouth with a velvety texture and low but fairly tight carbonation. I guess I'm just pretty over these massive lactose addition stouts; this one isn't even bad or anything and the coffee and dark chocolate character helps alleviate a lot of the monotony. But yeah. Not offering much innovation on the pastry stout here, even if it's a fine drink for what it is.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2021
at 17:27