Rating: 5/5
T.R.E.A.T (The Royal Eccentric Ale Treatment) by Midnight Sun is a 7.8%ABV Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter brewed with Pumpkin, Cocoa Nibs, Cinnamon, Cloves and Nutmeg. While there are many pumpkin beers out there, a very few squadron of hybrid beers are out that combine with chocolate stouts and porters. This, my friends, is the one that rules them all. This is the second time I try this beer.
Intriguing doses of sweet spices, cocoa nibs and pumpkin transform an exceptional porter into a mesmerizing potion. Pour this tantalizing brew into a snifter and experience its many eccentric nuances, which create a royal treat. Demented or delightful?
This is the same award-winning recipe that garnered a GOLD MEDAL at GABF in 2007. Formerly known simply as Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter, we’ve named it T.R.E.A.T.: The Royal Eccentric Ale Treatment.
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So why is this a winner? Well, it doesn’t compare strictly with pumpkins ales directly, but because it is in a class that combines rich chocolate and coffee flavors with it. The flavors are very good. Noticeable flavors of bitter dark Chocolate, Pumpkin pie with vanilla cream, sweet potato, little bit of coffee and mocha, oats, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, caramel, wine grapes, oak and smokiness like that of Madrugada Obscura JP Sour stout, raisin bread, . The fact that it has that sour and bittering agents, it brings the beer to a unique balance that can described and awesome!! I am a fan of sweet beer but also a fan of bitter, smokey and sour beers too. So this sort of displays a lot of great characteristics of beer aside from just what the beer taste like to how is the beer in terms of palate distinction. Yes, for some people, this is very important. Many people who could care less about what flavor a beer is, would certainly like to know about how it feels to their taste buds. So there you have it friends, a great dark chocolate and pumpkin beer. I had this twice to let you know, it is worth a pick up 🙂
2011 Review:
Yes… another pumpkin beer…but one unlike the rest. What if you took a pumpkin pie and made it with chocolate sweetness. That is what this is.. :P… BEHOLD!!!… the ultimate in pumpkin sweetness just because …well I will get to that part in just a moment…I bring forth the T.R.E.A.T (The Royal Eccentric Ale Treatment) Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter by Midnight Sun Brewing….damn that w
as a long sentence and a name for the beer. But even it’s long name does not even begin to describe its royal king pumpkin goodness. Sure this is a fall beer but technically (Even though were in Christmas season) it is still fall until later on this month. So it sorta counts….:P… Anyways about this beer. Dis I mention it had chocolate and pumpkin?…LOL like a zillion times yes…This beer actually won the championship at the Great American Beer Festival. I understand why…. It is damn good…!!… You have pumpkin, cocoa nibs, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg brewed with roasted malts. The fact that this beer is so creamy and sweet, it hides its 7.8% alcohol content. It may not be walloping with alot of alcohol but the flavor of mix spices pumpkin and chocolate just gives it that right Fall before Christmas type of feel. It is hard to say this since I have had a lot of pumpkin brews but this is one is now on my top 3 favorites. This pumpkin beer is king right next to La Parcella by JP and the collab La Citrueille Céleste de Citracado. Maybe cus I love chocolate so much and pumpkin pie and spices so much :P. Who knew Alaskan pumpkins could be so good ♥
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