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Shorts Imperial Spruce India Pilsner

Shorts Imperial Spruce India Pilsner

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An European Strong Lager brewed by
Shorts Brewing Co.

Bellaire, Michigan USA

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333.72/5.03.68/5.0Special10%98.5 Lager glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
A double pilsner fermented with blue spruce needles and high alpha hops, aromatic earth tonic of the resinous picea pungens and humulus lupulus.

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 TURDFERGUSON (1021), Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Jul 22, 2008  
Tasted at the Carolina Crew gathering, Greenville - thanks to Paul Philippon for sharing! Nose has a bit of oregano in there with a whole bunch of spruce and piney hops. Flavor is very sprucey and hoppy but I don’t dislike it at all. Really enjoyed this unique creation and my first brew from Shorts. This is by far the best imperial pilsner I have had.


 ucusty (849), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/55/102/511/20
Jul 21, 2008  
Tasted at the Carolina Crew gathering, Greenville - thanks to Paul Philippon for sharing! Okay this holiday season rip off a branch of christmas tree, chew on for a while and thats the flavor you have here. Tried it twice, but its just to in your face with resinous pine and piney hops. Slightly hot finish. BLAM!!! is right


 JCB (887), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Jul 20, 2008  
Tasted at the Carolina Crew gathering, Greenville - thanks to Paul Philippon for sharing! BLAM!!! Sticky icky pine resin everywhere, no longer on your fingertips from the Xmas tree but right up in your nose and mouth. Incredible spruce aroma with some spice and very aggressive hops. I started off thinking this was too boozy, too one-dimensional. But God help me if I didn’t keep coming back to this one, liking it more each time I sipped.


 incutrav (489), Woodbury, Minnesota, USA
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/519/20
Jul 14, 2008  
I knew long before i ever cracked this 750 that i would love this beer. I love the smell of pine, i love hops, why would i not like this? I was correct, the spruce smell is amazing. Each sip coats your throat with pine resin, almost sap like, in a good way. The hops seemed to get overpowered for the most part, but the pine worked well so it didnt really matter. Slightly sweet, but its all about spruce, spruce and a little more spruce. If only a guy could find more spruce beers around, you would think more would do it with the hop situation like it is. Me likey!


 jcr (811), Jasper, Indiana, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 10, 2008  
750 ml. Brewed on 4-30-07. What an interesting beer — especially if you like a big spruce flavor. Beautiful orange pour with big, frothy head. Huge, delicious aroma of juicy grapefruit, fresh-squeezed orange juice, spruce, pine, resin. Hints of caramel and sweet honey. The flavor is moderately sweet and moderately to heavily bitter. The finish remains bitter and dry. The flavor has the strong taste of spruce, like chewing on needles. In fact, the spruce overwhelms the other nice qualities of the beer. Medium body and velvet texture. If the spruce had been dialed down a couple of notches, allowing the nice malt backbone to share the stage, I would think this right up there with Dreadnaught. But the spruce is just too overpowering. Nonetheless, kudos to the brewery for one heck of a a fun beer to drink.




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