New Glarus Unplugged Cherry Stout

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Bottle: Pours a dark brown with a small tan head. Nose is rich with pie cherries and sweet fruitiness and some oak tones. Tastes full of cherries and packs a solid sweet/tart punch. Hints of vanilla too. Thanks Footbalm.

From a 12oz Bottle. Courtesy of footy. Sampled 5/18/07. Pours a semi-transparent, deep ruddy brown color with a nice layer of quickly dissipating, sudsy off-white head. Tons of cinnimon in the nose, along with some freshly grated nutmeg and ginger. Some lightly sour, cidery cherry notes as well. Not really any dark malt or roasted malt presence in the nose. Medium bodied, sparkling, tingling carbonation mouthfeel. Very spicy flavors with some marachino cherry. The nutmeg flavors come through strong on the palate, leaving a pleasant numbness left lingering on the tongue. Finishes slightly sweet, with no real stout like qualities. Thanks, Rudy!

poured into tall tulip. pours a quick dark ebony with full light frothy head. sweet, mild, cherry aroma that begs you to take a sip. my first impression was the lack of body on the palate, it had a very watery mouthful, and is my only criticism to this beer, carbonation is present on the front along with the sweetness from the cherries. more sweet than anything on the initial, behind the sweetness the complexity shines, and the oak aged really compliments well with the cherry sweetness, the 8 barleys add a depth. the aged presents itself nicely on the finish, cherries are on the front, the best part is the middle transition. has a mild aftertaste, I can taste the mellowed nature after some moderate aging. a very good and complex beer, i leave it thinking it was sweeter than I thought, more cherry, and a lot less body than I wanted, but it was wonderful thruout. Thanks to my BA friend ThomasHardy for this.

Thanks to KingpinIPA for this one - Dark brown pour with a reddish tinge and a medium tan-pink head. Aroma has a subtle cherry essence with a bit of cocoa and some wood. Flavor has a nice cherry-sweetness upfront that isn’t over the top, but is very smooth and tasty. The darker malts, oak, and assorted sweet flavors blend well together. So unique and very tasty.

Poured a dark brown/reddish color with a small and quickly vanishing head. Aroma of cherries and smoke. Strong taste of cherries, malt, smoke. Dan Carey is a GOD!

12 oz bottle shared with willblake. Poured a deep dark ruby/brown with an average size hed that quickly disipates. Aroma was lots of wood with a little sweetness, but mostly wood. I found this one to be far to thin and watery and wished it had more body to it. Flavor is sweet with some oakiness to it and an aftertaste of berries. Nice beer but needs more body.

Picked up six pack from The Coffee Grounds in Eau Claire, WI. Pours a hazy cherry cola brown brew with a fast dissolving off white head to a bubbly white ring. Aroma is rich with lots of sour cherries, vanilla, some oak cask and some dark roasted malt. Taste is sour cherry, a touch of molasses, and a touch of vanilla. Finish is slightly sweet/sour and a black cherry aftertaste. Actually quite nice for their unplugged series.

6/16/2007: New Glarus Unplugged Cherry Stout pours a clean, dark brown color. In the glass the color appears to be brownish-ruby/purple! The beer still has an adequate level of carbonation; the bubbles are very fine now. There is also a ring around the edges that is tan/mocha in color and lasts for the duration. The nose is enticed by the aroma of chocolate-covered sour cherries, caramelized malt, some oak, aged alcohol. The aroma smoothes out a bit as it warms. The tongue is tickled by lots of wonderful sour cherry (real) with some chocolate, caramelized maltiness, and subtle oakiness. The flavor is sweet at first, then tart toward the finish. There is a hint of char in the finish as well. Wonderful! Similar to the aroma, the flavors all meld together and become even better as the beer warms. The mouthfeel is smooth and the body of the beer is medium-full. Damn, this is a nice beer. Even the wife enjoyed it! It is well-crafted and very well balanced. I’m not quite sure it’s completely a stout, but maybe more like an Old Ale or Eisbock. Regardless, New Glarus does such a fine job on all of their beers, especially their fruit beers! I would put New Glarus Unplugged Cherry Stout as #2 behind <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer/new-glarus-belgi Glarus Belgian Red as far as cherry beers are concerned...

12 oz bottle from Styles. Thank you very much!
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7/08/2009: New Glarus Unplugged Cherry Stout is holding on quite well. It still has a deep, chocolate brown color, but there isn’t too much of a head or accompanying carbonation left. Cherry and dark chocolate waft from the glass. The sweet and rich beer excites the tongue and delivers flavors of caramelized chocolatey malt, cocoa nibs, soft tart cherry, and aged dark tobacco leaves. The flavors are well-balanced. The body is medium to medium-full and it is smooth with just enough carbonation to open up the flavors on the palate. I believe that this beer has aged well and will continue to due so over the next year or more...

12 fl. oz. bottle from buckybeer. Thanks again Mark!