T.R.E.A.T. Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter
Midnight Sun Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
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Intriguing doses of sweet spices, cocoa nibs and pumpkin transform an exceptional porter into a mesmerizing potion. Pour this tantalizing brew into a snifter and experience its many eccentric nuances, which will delight your taste buds.
This is the same award-winning recipe that garnered a GOLD MEDAL at GABF in 2007. Formerly known simply as Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter, we’ve named it T.R.E.A.T.: The Royal Eccentric Ale Treatment.
TREAT melds rich decadent flavors into an enticing brew that is perfect for pairing with both sweet and savory dishes. Add depth to desserts like pumpkin cheesecake, bread pudding and tiramisu. Reduce this porter down then glaze grilled meats. Mix Moroccan spices with TREAT to marinate lamb shanks before slow-roasting. The options are endless. But the most important step is pouring yourself a lovely glass of TREAT to enjoy with the rewarding results of your efforts.
With so many tones and textures to experience, will you find this brew… Demented…or delightful?
This is the same award-winning recipe that garnered a GOLD MEDAL at GABF in 2007. Formerly known simply as Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter, we’ve named it T.R.E.A.T.: The Royal Eccentric Ale Treatment.
TREAT melds rich decadent flavors into an enticing brew that is perfect for pairing with both sweet and savory dishes. Add depth to desserts like pumpkin cheesecake, bread pudding and tiramisu. Reduce this porter down then glaze grilled meats. Mix Moroccan spices with TREAT to marinate lamb shanks before slow-roasting. The options are endless. But the most important step is pouring yourself a lovely glass of TREAT to enjoy with the rewarding results of your efforts.
With so many tones and textures to experience, will you find this brew… Demented…or delightful?
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 65cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #34. ][ Trade by GAManiac ]. Clear dark brown color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, spicy, cinnamon, cardamom almost like a honey cake, cloves and nutmeg. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090612]
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2009
at 07:35
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A pitch black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma is very complex with notes of sweet malt, wood, fruit, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of soy sauce, wood, malt, alcohol, and caramel, leading to a dry woody finish. The alcohol tickles the tongue.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2009
at 19:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
@Pilsner Petes East Coast Gathering-22oz bottle–pours a tan head and dark brown color. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate, pumpkin, spice/clove. Taste is ashy which overrides, dark malt, spice. Thanks notalush for sharing. 100323-Tmpa wkly Gathering-rerate 3.5
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2009
at 09:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Dark brown with a warm reddish hue and a creamy light brown head. Spicy aroma, some roasted malt and vanilla. Medium body, sweetish roasted malt and spicy accents, very sweet. Hardly any bitterness. 120609
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2009
at 13:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From bottle, blind #34. Pours dark brown to black with a small and slowly collapsing tan head. Dark toffee, roasted breadish and caramelish. Light metallic, roasted malt, breadish and light honey note. Smooth and slight bitter finish. Lasting fruity and roasted malt flavoured finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2009
at 13:50
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Thanks to AmericanBrew for sending this my way - 2008 bottle shared at Peter’s NY gathering - foamy black pour - the pumpkin adds a very subtle complexity that gives a nice depth to the roasted malt and chocolate - very subtle, especially for something with "imperial" in the name - the flavor has a lot of dry cocoa up front, and a very mild pumpkin flavor that is enhanced by a mixture of spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, etc.) that arrives late - more subdued than I expected, but delicious none-the-less.
Tried
from Can
on 31 May 2009
at 21:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2008 Bottle (pre- T.R.E.A.T.) thanks to bu11zeye. Had back to back with the oak aged version. Pours with a creamy tan head over a black body. Aroma of chocolate, pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cocoa powder. Taste is pumpkin pulp, cinnamon, light smoke and light chocolate. Light bubbles, a bit syrupy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2009
at 12:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Shared by mreusch, thanks. 2008 bottle. Pours completely black with a small but strong tan head. Aroma starts smoky and woodsy with a little bit of toned down pine tree. I get lots of bacon-y woodsiness, I actually get BBQ ribs with a bit of pine, nutmeg and clove at the end. It’s very weird and original. I am not smelling rauch malt but all these different aspects just come off this way. Taste is less interesting though. Its a but watery with light chocolate, spices, and a bit of a nuttiness. Some burnt chocolate as well. Not heavy at all, goes down well with a medium body. Love the aroma but needs some more of the flavor to really make this special.
22oz bottle, New Belgium large snifter/goblet glass.
22oz bottle, New Belgium large snifter/goblet glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2008
at 00:32
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Courtesy of Geiger. 2008 bottle, pours black with brownish head. Aroma is spicy, pumpkin and chocolate. Taste had more chocolate notes with pumpkin in the aftertaste. One could also note many spices that reminded me of a winter warming beer. Notably cinnamon, nutmeg. Everything was very well balanced, neither too much of chocolate nor pumpkin. An exceptional beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2008
at 21:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black beer. Roasted aroma with a roasted grain flavor mixed with good pumpkin pie spices including nutmeg and some cinnamon. Good, full palate.
Tried
on 03 Jun 2008
at 22:41