Spencer Brewery
Microbrewery in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 2013
Closed in 2022
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Description
St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, is home to a community of Trappist monks and the first American Trappist brewery. Following the Benedictine tradition of ora et labora (prayer and work), the monks pursue a simple life of contemplative prayer, manual labor and hospitality. The brewery helps support the monks and their charitable outreach. The brewery, being far into the abbey's land, is not open to the public for tours or tastings.
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dark amber color with beige head. Aroma: caramel, toffee, biscuit. Taste: light coffee, toffee, biscuit. Not a charmer.
Tried
on 19 May 2021
at 20:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at tasting. Malty aroma and taste, roastyness, light cocoa, spicy notes, medium to high bitter. Medium to full body, malty spicy roasty bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2021
at 20:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at on-line tasting. Golden color with small white head. Aroma of malt, Belgian yeast, candies. Sweet taste with malt, caramel, candies, yest. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2021
at 13:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Fox & Hounds, Sønderborg. Pours hazy dark brown with stable light tan head. Clear aroma of dried fruit, yeast and malt, with very mild roasty notes. Hoppy and roasty onset, complemented by citric notes and touches of yeast and malt. Hints of liquorice and fruit. Roasty and coffeelike aftertaste with estery and acidic touches. Not bad!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2021
at 20:09
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Thanks, Jim! Ozzy70) Bottle. A- White pepper, clove, hay, yeasty, mild stone fruit. A- Orange color, cloudy liquid, white head. T- Yeasty, straw, mild peach, peppery. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, soapy finish. O- An American made trappist is always a treat and while good, just doesn't quite match up with it's Belgian counterpart. Nice spice levels and a fair amount of stone fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2021
at 22:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours translucent orangey gold with a creamy white head. Aroma of peach with a hint of sour. Med body or so. Flavor is peach, just a little tartness, and something suggesting brown sugar - despite the tartness. It's a bit like peach juice diluted - also has some earthiness like a saison. Not getting spice as such. Quite refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2021
at 23:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours amber with a small head. It has a yeast spice, dark fruit, and malt aroma. Flavor is of sweet malt, yeast, dark fruit, some mild oxidation, and more hop bitterness than many quads, but it balances it nicely and it’s still mild.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2021
at 05:50
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Best before 9/27/19. Drank a few months after that IIRC. It smells of dark fruit, malt, and yeast spice. The flavor is sweet with dark fruit, malt, spices, and mild earthy hops. It’s oxidized a bit, but is still pretty good.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2021
at 02:57
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Black color, creamy foam. Very good aroma, powerful, strong bourbon barrel, vanilla, sweet bourbon, prunes, strong, dried fruit, blue raisins, a little acetone. Taste: sweet, caramel, liquid chocolate and coffee, vanilla and bourbon, good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2021
at 16:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 33cl, BB 19/09/2022.
Acajou, col fin café au lait.
Arôme est complexe et offre une belle palette d'une quad belge - fruités secs à souhait - rétro rappelle un peu ce côté 'crusted marinade' d'un bbq avec un effet caramélisé - retrouve presque un côté anise voire abricot fermenté.
Palais est fruité sur les fruits secs - raisins, figues et dates, léger pruneaux avec un retour un peu caramel, toffee, sucre candi avec une petite pointe de réglisse accompagné par une petite pointe oxydée-Jerez.
Sécheresse plus marquée avec un côté grains qui n'est pas en reste.
Si devais donner mon avis - cette dernière est un cran en dessous de la Quad de St Feuillien (hors label 'Trappistes'). Reste très complexe - à mettre en cave et à savourer à t° de cave.
Acajou, col fin café au lait.
Arôme est complexe et offre une belle palette d'une quad belge - fruités secs à souhait - rétro rappelle un peu ce côté 'crusted marinade' d'un bbq avec un effet caramélisé - retrouve presque un côté anise voire abricot fermenté.
Palais est fruité sur les fruits secs - raisins, figues et dates, léger pruneaux avec un retour un peu caramel, toffee, sucre candi avec une petite pointe de réglisse accompagné par une petite pointe oxydée-Jerez.
Sécheresse plus marquée avec un côté grains qui n'est pas en reste.
Si devais donner mon avis - cette dernière est un cran en dessous de la Quad de St Feuillien (hors label 'Trappistes'). Reste très complexe - à mettre en cave et à savourer à t° de cave.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Dranken Geers
on 13 Mar 2021
at 15:43