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.
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours out crisp clean golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice light bread malts some dusty wheat. Taste is more of the nice light dusty malts wheat some touch of grass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2024
at 03:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16oz can pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is citrus some soap floral notes and grain. Taste is more of the nice floral notes grass citrus hops and a bread cereal grain.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2024
at 03:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is over ripe peach notes some sour tartness. Nose is nice over ripe peach some light tartness and a great funk.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2024
at 03:14
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2024
at 13:58
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Fles 33cl thuis. THT29-9-2019. Pruim, chocolade, caramel, zoeten, rozijn, maltig, dried fruits, bruine suiker, licht vineus, licht koolzuur, licht boozy. (19-1-2024).
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2024
at 21:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle pours out amber color topped with a fizzy head. Nose is nice Christmas spices and some belg yeast. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts great spice blend and a yeast touch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2023
at 21:06
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Toby. Dark, opaque pour small bubbly head Aroma is malty, sweet, nutty. Taste is brown bread, sweet, nutmeg, malty, savory.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2023
at 06:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
rating #10,100! s: honey - malt - caramelised sugars a: brown - no head t: sweet - honey - flowers p: light peat - earthy malt - pitted fruits o: balanced - clean - sweet 16 ounce can - Total Wine: Alexandria (Potomac Yard), Virginia - 29-November-2021 US$4,99 - canned: 20-October-2021 - sampled: 13-July-2023
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jul 2023
at 07:54
7/10
This BB date was only 6 months ago. Suffers from the lack of freshness but overall it's quite good. Classic style. Would've loved to try their rye IPA or grapefruit IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2023
at 11:03
The only Trappist saison. BB date 16 months ago and I'm bummed this didn't hold up. Syrupy peach cider with oak and Brett. 😢 It's too bad they closed doors. They should've tried a communion wafer pastry stout 🤷🏽♀️
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2023
at 11:00