Culmination Ale (With Chipotle Chilis)
Long Trail Brewing Company in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Regular|
Score
7.23
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ home, acquired via trade. Clear, dark brown appearance with a thin brown head. Aroma has some anise, dark chocolate, roast, vanilla, and a hint of smoke. Moderate sweetness and moderate low bitterness bitterness. Good balance. Nice clean flavor with mild black licorice, chocolate, a bit of dark fruit, and vanilla. Solid beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, 2015 vintage bottling. Pours pitch black color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky tan head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Awesome appearance. Aromas of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, raisin, fig, licorice, toasted dark bread, herbal, light pepper, light smoke/char, and roast/smokey earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, fruity yeast, and earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, raisin, fig, licorice, toasted dark bread, herbal, light pepper, light smoke/char, and roast/toasted earthiness. Moderate roast/char and herbal/spicy hop bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, raisin, fig, licorice, toasted dark bread, light smoke/char, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, fruity yeast, and earthy hop flavors; with a nice roasted bittersweet and hop spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from roast/hop bitterness as well. Medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a smooth, creamy/bready, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is fairly well hidden with only a small warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent English imperial porter style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, fruity yeast, and earthy hop flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sample at Daily Growler UA. Dark cola color with a medium tan head that recedes steadily to a film. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of chocolate, malt and vanilla. Medium to full body with flavors of chocolate malt, vanilla and mild coffee. The finish is roasty with a vanilla mocha aftertaste. Above average overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Location: 22 oz bottle from Buy Rite - Jersey City, 12/3/15, 2013 Bottle
Aroma: Dark, roasted malts, some burnt notes, coffee, chocolate, and a bit of alcohol
Appearance: It pours a dark brown color with a ring of creamy brown head and medium lace
Flavor: Tastes much more roasty and malty - coffee and chocolate, finish is all roast
Palate: This one is medium-plus bodied, it drinks very smooth and rounded on the mouth, the alcohol is rather well hidden (other than in the aroma), with a soft carbonation, and a long, dry finish
Overall Impression: This beer is drinking really nicely now with its 2 years of age. Roasted malt is dominating, palate is smooth, and overall, it is just really tasty. Where's the repeat the last word coach guy when you need him... For you seniors, this marks the culmination...CULMINATION!...of the past four years.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle stamped 2015 in green on the neck.
This was poured into a snifter, treated as an \"imperial\" style. I know ratebeer recognizes the style.
The appearance was a dark brown colored almost to black color with a one finger off white to almost tan foamy head that dissipated within a sly minute. Foamy concave clingy lacing sticks to the glass in a nice way.
The smell takes in dry roasted coffee bean with subtle hints of black licorice and dark fruits.
The taste was dry and roasty initially and then the subtle sweetness of the dark fruits slide in for a slight underneath to almost balance of it all. Cacao nibs create the dryness. The aftertaste and finish are extremely dry.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium in body with a decent sessionability about it. Carbonation feels good as it hits my tongue. Definitely the dryness of it all really hits my tongue.
Overall, as an imperial porter, it works, good for the most part.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
So a strong ale w/cacoa nibs. Dark brown and a bit of haze. Sweet chocolatey character, with a touch of nuttiness. Quite sweet, a touch sticky and then this really strong boozy/barrelly element comes into it. Big rich boozy finish...this is a finisher, and the big bottle for something like this is borderline insane. All told the balance isn’t that great with all the alcohol.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Drought. Dark brown with creamy tan head, mocha aroma, low carbonation, taste of chocolate laced with alcohol, medium finish with alcohol aftertaste. It’s. Like drinking a cold chocolate drink laced with rum.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
22 oz. bottle. Pitch black color with a thin ring of white head. Aroma is sweet and decadent. Roasted malt, cacao nibs, burnt sugar and maybe a touch of anise.
Flavor is a mirror image of the aroma. Hints of vanilla with a light bittering hop in the finish. The body is full for a porter with a creamy texture. I’m sure this is a beast on draft because the porter in my glass is quite nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the EBF Saturday Nice thick porter, the chili’s could be a bit more noticeable. --- Beer merged from original tick of Culmination Ale Imperial Chocolate Porter on 03 Feb 2017 at 18:45 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Had this on tap at New England Taphouse grille. Dark brown with a good sized off white head that persists. Rich caramel and toffee maltiness with a bit of dark pitted fruits and a bit of alcohol especially as it warmed. This was an aged barrel put on tap and honestly I didn’t realize it was a porter until I looked it up on here. Feels more like a strong English brown or an old ale than a porter. Still a pretty tasty beer that has a bit of alcohol warming that I assume was pretty harsh when fresh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours dark brown, no head. chocolate and licorice on the nose. Taste is sweet and loaded with roasted malts. Prety boozy actually but chocolate all of the way. wish there was a little vanilla in this.