Spencer Brewery

Microbrewery in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2013

Closed in 2022

Contact
167 N Spencer Rd, Spencer, MA, 01562, United States
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.

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Dranken Vandewoude, Veurne, Belgium. A golden/orange coloured pour with a thin white head on top. Sweet, malty, yeasty, fruity, spice taste/aroma. Not overly complex but it's fine.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Feb 2023 at 16:10


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

(bottle 0,33l from beershop.cz online shop) Overall: Very nice. Dried fruity, strong, spicy. Aroma: Prunes, dried fruits, sweet, light spicy, later alcohol, some roasty/woody/smoke notes. Appearance: Dark brown color. Medium, pale brown head. Taste: Medium sweet, prunes, dried fruits, alcohol, spicy, caramel, later some dark malts, chocolate. Palate: Full body. Spicy, warm finish.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2023 at 21:53


8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle thanks to wombat23. Brown with a creamy, beige head. Full-bodied, rich and chewy. Aroma a mix of brown sugar and spice with an underlying dankness. Initial taste is mildly sweet, full of toffee and prunes. Dry and sweeter yet at the finish, which is thick and malty and full of prunes and roasted brown sugar. There’s enough roasted bitterness underneath though to keep an overall good balance. A good one. Too bad about the brewery. :(

Tried from Bottle on 08 Feb 2023 at 17:52


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle at home, by the fire, 5th February 23. Pours a chestnut brown, a lacing of head. Aroma is nutty, caramel, malts. Taste is sweet, complex, yeast, dark fruits, caramel, malts, bitter and sweet: authentic to the style and very good

Tried from Bottle on 05 Feb 2023 at 20:32


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle bought from Beers of Europe about a year ago. The brewery sadly has done in that time. The beer is dark brown and opaque with a small layer of tan head. Molasses, salted caramel, fudge, yeast extract in the aroma. Sweet taste, lots more molasses, a little bit peppery with considerable hop bitterness in the finish. Medium to thick body, oily, soft to medium carbonation. A real treat.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2023 at 19:25


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Pours a deep brown colour wirh a rocky brown head that has little retention. Aromas''s of sweet malts, dried fruit, Belgian yeast, brown sugar. Retronasal it's sweetish, toffee, fruit, light spices. Flavour is above moderate sweet, light bitter. Medium bodied. Warming alcohol. Good carbonation. Long finish with increasing bitterness.

Tried from Bottle from Bierbaum (De Pijp) on 17 Nov 2022 at 20:54


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Spencer India Pale Ale, 355-ml-Fläschchen (MHD: 22.10.22) von Hopfen & Malz im Wedding. - Goldbraun, trüb; üppiger und dauerhafter Schaum. - In der Nase kräftige aber gediegene, trocken zitrusfruchtige Hopfung mit deutlicher Altersnote aber gerade deswegen reizvoll. - Antrunk füllig weich und knackig hopfenbitter mit alten Hopfenaromen von kerniger Zitrusfrucht, Zitronenöl, Bitterorange. Schwerer Malzkörper mit tiefer Süße, Honig. Milder rezent, vollmundig, tief. Im Abgang satte zitrusfruchtig-harzige Hopfenbittere. - Außerordentlich gediegenes, satt malztiefes und wuchtig hopfenbitteres IPA, dem leichte Altersspuren zusätzlichen Reiz verleihen; trotz intensiver Hopfung rund und reich. Vielleicht bedurfte es der langen Lagerung, um sein ganzes Potential zu entfalten. (15.10.2022.)

Tried on 15 Oct 2022 at 20:19


8.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle, 10.2%. Brown sugar aroma. Cloudy dark brown colour. Good stable creamy off-white head. The flavour is sweet and spicy. Distinct spicy maltiness. Warming alcohol finish with tobacco and more spicy malts. Creamy mouthfeel.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2022 at 17:04


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330 mL bottle dated August 10, 2019. Overcarbonated like the first two bottles I opened, but I was ready this time. A very deep red pour with a lot of debris and an off-white head. Spicy aromas (ginger, clove, nutmeg), malty with grape and molasses. Flavor has the clove, ginger spices, with dark malty molasses and green and red grape. Medium body, a bit lighter than the ABV would suggest. It's quite good.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2022 at 01:36


7

We've moved! Excuse the #DGM still don't have glasses. Subtle peach but fun.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2022 at 18:43