Pepe Nero - Goose Island Beer Co.

Darkmagus82

Montana

3.28/5  rDev -12.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Poured from bottle into a tulip glass with a bottled on date of 5/22/12. The label says it can be aged up to 5 years after bottling.

Appearance – Pours a cola colored brew with a huge tan head. The head has huge carbonation bubbles entrapped within, which slowly pop over time to leave a light level of lacing on the sides of the glass

Smell – The aroma is bready and yeasty with hints of some apple within. Accompanying these smells are notes of banana and some dark chocolate smells.

Taste – The taste starts out with a smoother blend of roasted malt and hints of chocolate. It begins without much of a saison taste, only to develop it more as the taste advances beyond the initial. Some fruit flavors come to the tongue rather quickly off the start being mainly of a banana and light fruit flavor. These remain rather light and are soon meet with some grassy and herbal tastes. A yeasty taste also soon comes to the tongue with the flavor now starting to develop more of a saison like flavor. In the end some bitter chocolate with an increase in a more bitter herbal flavor and some black pepper come to the tongue. These flavors all combined in a rather awkward way to leave a rather odd dark roast, light fruit and bitter herbal flavor to linger on the tongue.

Mouthfeel- The body of the beer is quite light with a carbonation level that is on the lower to medium side. This is a tough one as I can’t say if a creamier body for the roasted flavor would have been better or if staying with a thinner body for the fruit, yeast and herbal flavors was the better rout to take. The same goes for the carbonation.

Overall – Well nothing I really cared a whole lot about for the price that you pay. The tastes were a little confused with none of the flavors really melding well together. The nose, appearance and mouthfeel for me were all just average as well. It may be worth a try, but this is one I will likely not go back too.

Serving type: bottle

01-08-2013 01:45:05 | More by Darkmagus82

ackeeper

Illinois

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%

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Indiana

3.5/5  rDev -6.9%

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New Jersey

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%

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Kentucky

4/5  rDev +6.4%

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Iowa

4/5  rDev +6.4%

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New York

4.25/5  rDev +13%

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Missouri

4.25/5  rDev +13%

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Connecticut

3.5/5  rDev -6.9%

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breakingbland

Michigan

3.59/5  rDev -4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Poured from a 12 oz. bottle marked as "04/28/11 0149" into a tulip.

This beer gave a lively pour with a persistent one-finger, medium tan foamy head. Below the head, the beer itself is an opaque black/brown in the glass.

The aroma is a sweet funk (bubblegum?) with practically no hops.

Predominating is a slightly sweet chocolate taste, followed by a somewhat astringent black coffee taste as it goes down. A very slight bitterness lingers. Overall, the flavor profile is fairly simple but with a very deep character.

This beer has a very full mouthfeel: Good body and a pleasant level of carbonation.

Overall, this was a fun beer to drink. I didn't realize initially that I was drinking a 2-year old aged beer. I'd definitely look for this one again. Another winner from the Goose.

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2013 11:09:50 | More by breakingbland

schaffer9252

New York

4.25/5  rDev +13%

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TheMultiYeast

Pennsylvania

3.85/5  rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Bottled: 05/22/12

Nearly black with a big khaki head and some spotty lacing.

Aroma is dry, peppery, musty. Some raisin and rye malt shine through. Interesting yeast character.

Similar to nose, black pepper, more yeast quality, some bitterness, dryness.

Supremely dry after a year. Lively carbonation.

Very interesting dark saison. Enjoyable.

Serving type: bottle

05-16-2013 02:31:53 | More by TheMultiYeast

avschmitt

Michigan

3.5/5  rDev -6.9%

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New York

4.5/5  rDev +19.7%

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California

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%

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Oregon

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%

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Ontario (Canada)

4.25/5  rDev +13%

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Ohio

4.25/5  rDev +13%

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North Carolina

4.5/5  rDev +19.7%

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Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev -13.6%

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Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%

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California

4.5/5  rDev +19.7%

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New Jersey

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%

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Kentucky

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%

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Kentucky

3.25/5  rDev -13.6%

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