Thanks to Bruce for the opportunity to try this one. Pours a solid dark brown/black color with a smallish off white head that quickly dissipates to a cap. Smells of roast caramel and ash with a spicy earthy menthol aroma that I assume is spruce. This beer smells a bit oxidized or maybe that’s a mix of spruce and pumpkin. The flavor is a bit spicy and roasty. Herbal spicy menthol hits up front followed by a roasty caramel and toffee. This finishes with a long lingering bitterness that seems more intense than just hops. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a roasty bitter mouthfeel. This one is certainly out of the box, but it really didn’t work all that well for me. The pumpkin is almost non existent and the spruce adds a harsh bitterness that I really couldn’t get into.

A - Half finger tan head. Dissipated fast. Dark brown S - Mild pumpkin spice, dark malts giving a porter scent T - squash, earthiness, pumpkin spice and spruce tips. Mellow hop profile. M - 30/70 carbonation, heavy bodied, smooth finish O - solid A beer. Could use more spruce tip.

22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a thick tan head. Aroma is dark roasted malty. Roasted dark chocolate malty. Mild fruity, spiced, herbal. Light sprouce note and nutmeg spiced. Lingering dark malty and roasted finish.

Intensiver Malzantrunk mit leicht trockenen Noten, süßlich-intensiv. Dazu leichte Kürbisnoten, auch der Alkohol ist geringfügig erkennbar. Gelungen intensiv, rund, in den meisten Teilen vollmundig. Danke an Travlr! /11/12/11/10/11

bottle at Morrie’s tasting(12Nov10)pours dark brown to black with a medium tan head. Aroma is earthy with oak and moldy wood notes, squash and pumpkin pie spices. Flavor is pumpkin pie, some oak and maple, honey and an extremely dry earthy finish.

On Tap @ Sunset Grill. Pours a motor oil color with a light brown head. Aroma is very faint chocolate, malt, spruce tips, and a touch of pumpkin. After I let it sit for about 15 minutes before drinking. Flavor is Chocolate, spruce, touch of pumpkin, spices, a little smokiness. I get no bitterness at all. Body is thinner than expected for an imperial stout, but this is still good, even though it is not what I expected from a Imperial Stout. I really like my Impy stouts to be thicker and creamer then this one.

Pours black into a Sam glass. Tan head with nice retention recedes to coat surface. Thin spice and cocoa upfront turning to spruce in the lasting finish.

22oz bottle pours a watery, opaque black with a thin, tan head. Nose is chocolately, dusty, earth, stryofoam. Flavor is sweet, chocolate, earthy, pine, coffee, nuts. Full bodied, sweet, dry finish.

Draft at Taste of Tops. Dark maroon color, beige edge head. Subtle chocolate and coffee grounds aroma. Taste is wet grass and chocolate, a very odd combo.

Bottle. Dark brown, brown layer. Light coffee aroma. Strong pine/spruce entry, spicy, orangepeel, coffee in the background. Too many hops.