Saint Arnold Divine Reserve #9
Saint Arnold Divine Reserve #9
Rated 3.538 by BeerPals
Brewed by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
Houston, TX, United States
Style: Spiced Beer
11% Alcohol by Volume
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Important: let this beer warm to at least 50° before enjoying. This beer is black with some ruby highlights. The nose is full of pumpkin pie spices and some alcohol. There are notes of nutmeg, caraway and vanilla. The taste starts with chocolate malt with a hint of spice and rolls into a warm spicy alcohol taste which has the effect of creating the balance that usually comes from the hop bitter. There is some hop bitter on the finish, but not much. Overall, this beer finishes relatively dry for such a big beer. As it warms, the spices move forward in the taste and the chocolate moves to the finish. The pumpkin provides a pleasant undertone and a nice mouthfeel. The spices will probably fade some over time; they mellowed considerably while still in the fermenter.
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| Overall Rank | 2665 |
| Overall Percentile | 95.2 |
| Style Rank | 51 of 1281 |
| Style Percentile | 96 |
| Lowest Score | 3.6 |
| Highest Score | 4.1 |
| Average Score | 3.860 |
| Weighted Score | 3.538 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.230 |
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5 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8
Had as Pumpkinator. Pours opaque coffee brown with a light tan head. Aroma offers strong cloves and cinnamon tones plus pumpkin and a little toasted malt. Flavor delivers strong spice notes riding roast malt and fresh, tangy pumpkin. Mouthfeel has good body and fizz. Like drinking a very spicy pumpkin pie.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
After a few years i finally got 2 bombers.. This smells EXACTLY like pumpkin pie with the crust to the almost over baked stage, i really dont notice any of the stout aromas. Flavor is about the same well done crust, the spice to stout ratio is excellent, the spices are well balanced not over or underwhelming. The alcohol is well hidden and some stout qualities coming out. Overall probably the best pumpkin beer yet, I tried Wasatche's Black O' Lantern earlier this year, for me its a toss up between the two.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
22 oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a medium creamy tan head that retains well and laces the glass.
The aroma is roasted chocolate malts with some perfumey pumpkin spice and some vegetal pumpkin.
The flavor is sweet roasted chocolate malts with a lot of pumpkin spicing (cinnamon, nutmeg, clove) and some dark fruit, molasses and alcohol. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.
Overall, a nice imperial pumpkin porter/stout. -
Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
March Tasting: Spicy in a really unique fashion. Detected ginger and possibly nutmeg, but there was one outstanding spicy flavor that pulled it all together....just couldn't pinpoint it for sure. Dark and brooding and fairly smooth. The spices were good, just a bit over the top for my liking.
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9
thanks to Deanna for providing me a bottle while i was ...indisposed. Pours with a low brown fizzy head. Aroma right of is tar and black pumpkin spices. I just want to buy a farm for it and let the bugger run around and make macaroni art. quite a firm bold brew, yet has some mellow qualities. Nice use of spices and alcohol. i'm a big fan of the show! will age wonderfully. warming and easy to drink for such a high octane stout. A good DR release!... in 10-01-09. bottled 11-12-09. got out 12-01-09. drank 12-03-09.
