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Shorts Imperial Spruce India Pilsner

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
803.65/5.03.58/5.0Special10%95.4Lager glass
Commercial Description:
• Aromatic earth tonic of the resinous picea and humulus lupulus
• Beer Type: Imperial pilsner brewed with Northern Michigan Blue Spruce needles and healthy doses of high alpha hops
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 Ungstrup (15253), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Nov 19, 2008  
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma is sweet with hoppy notes of grass. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of alcohol and spruce needles, leading to a dry grassy finish.


 Papsoe (14997), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/56/103/514/20
Nov 18, 2008  
(Bottle 75 cl) Hazy golden with a dense off-white head leaving laces. Very fresh piney aroma. Medium-bodied with lightly sweet pale malts. Distinctly bitter and astringent finish. An odd one, interesting but far from harmonious. 311008


 yespr (12180), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/512/20
Nov 28, 2008  
75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a white head. Pinewood and spiced aroma. Light citrusy. Light vegetable note too. Spiced and malty with a solid citric and dry dry dry bitter flavour. Solid citric and spiced finish.


 fonefan (11640), VestJylland, Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Feb 1, 2009  
Bottle 75cl. @ [ Shorts Tasting ].
Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is heavy hoppy, spruce, caramel, earth, spicy, fusty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. It is TO MUCH !! [20081108]


 oh6gdx (8839), Vasa, Finland
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Apr 11, 2009  
Bottled@Konttori, Tampere. Hazy orange colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is lots of juniper, conifer woods and some sap. Flavour is lots of conifer wood, sap, resin and some slight grassyness as well. Really fresh, and kinda strange in many ways. I o like it, but not really sure I would drink that many bottles of it after eachother...


 joergen (8610), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Oct 5, 2008  
Bottle. Cloudy golden coloured with a huge off white head. Fruity aroma of hops, pine needles, spruce and candies. Fruity and perfumed flavour of hops, spruce and pine needles with notes of candies. Hoppy finish.


 kp (8396), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Oct 21, 2007  
Date: 10/11/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewfest, GABF

clear yellow, huge off white head, spicy pine aroma back by light sweet malt, sweet malt flavor balanced by strong spicy spruce, nice bitter finish more from the spruce than the hops,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4


 fiulijn (7170), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/58/20
Jan 10, 2009  
<i>Tasting at Papsoe</i>
Hazy golden color; creamy head. The rosemary aroma reminds me a roasted chicken more than a beer. It seems a very solid Ale, with good malt, some sweetness, good hopping, unfortunately the rosemary (spruce) is so out of place. 10 years ago, following an ancient recipe, I brewed a beer with rosemary from my garden, it was undrinkable. Controversial, and I decide for thumbs down, as I did 10 years ago.



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