Divine Reserve 9
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Brewery: Saint Arnold Brewing
Alcohol By Volume: 11.00%
Beer Style: Imperial Stout
Availability: Limited
Average of 3 ratings: 2.7 stars.
Description:
Important: let this beer warm to at least 50° before enjoying. This beer is black with some ruby highlights. The nose is full of pumpkin pie spices and some alcohol. There are notes of nutmeg, caraway and vanilla. The taste starts with chocolate malt with a hint of spice and rolls into a warm spicy alcohol taste which has the effect of creating the balance that usually comes from the hop bitter. There is some hop bitter on the finish, but not much. Overall, this beer finishes relatively dry for such a big beer. As it warms, the spices move forward in the taste and the chocolate moves to the finish. The pumpkin provides a pleasant undertone and a nice mouthfeel. The spices will probably fade some over time; they mellowed considerably while still in the fermenter.
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Appearance - 4.0
Pours about 1/4 inch of tan head that fades quickly leaving a thin ring of lace. The beer is almost black, but when held to a light you can see through the top, even though it has a plum color to it.
Aroma - 4.0
The nose blends the typical pumpkin spices like nutmeg and cinnamon with dark roasted malts and a touch of chocolate. The spices stand out the most, though.
Mouthfeel - 4.0
Medium-Full in body with light carbonation.
Taste - 3.5
A little bit of roasted malts up front followed by all the spices from the nose. The abundances of spices mask some of the desirable flavors of the imperial stout. It finishes with a mixture of spices and roasted malts. It's fairly dry in the finish.
Overall - 3.5
An interesting brew, but I'd prefer if the spices were toned down a bit more making more of a balance b/w the spices and imperial stout flavors.
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