Reformation Southern Pecan Imperial Stout

Review Date 1/1/2024 By John Staradumsky

  Style: Nut Beer   Brewery: Reformation   Country: USA   State: Georgia   $ Per OZ: $.64 (D)   ABV: 8.7%

If you go to the Reformation Brewery Website, you will find 15 pages of their beers, both active and historical. Reformation Southern Pecan Imperial Stout is not one of them. I know this because I checked. Reformation is, of course, my local brewery, with their Canton location a scant few miles from me (and their Woodstock brewery only about another eight more distant).

I found Southern Pecan Imperial Stout on tap at Taco Mac, though. When I did, I of course ordered a glass. I’m glad I did because it was a decadent and delicious imperial stout with strong notes of pecan. I so love pecan, too.

Untappd says this about the beer, no doubt quoted from Reformation:

A mild and balanced malt sweetness gives this beer a pecan pie like finish. Made for the 2024 Wrecking Bar Strong Beer Fest, this 8.7% Southern Pecan Imperial Stout was mashed with finely chopped & crushed pecans, with whole roasted pecans added in the whirlpool.

I wonder what they do with the used pecans? Hopefully feed them to some lucky farm animals.

Reformation Southern Pecan Imperial Stout has an alcohol content of 8.7% by volume according to Taco Mac. Untappd says it is 8.6%, close enough as makes no odds. I paid $7 for an 11-ounce glass and thought that that was a good deal. I will style this as a fruit/nut beer since the pecans are the star attraction. You could call it an imperial stout and not be wrong.

My glass of Reformation Southern Pecan Imperial Stout arrived jet-black in color with a thin cap of tan foam and a dark roasty nose, Taking a sip, I got more of the sark roast in the medium to full bodied palate. The beer is coffeeish, slightly sweet like a slice of pecan pie, deliciously toasty pecan nutty, rounded out nicely with a warming alcohol finish.

Your holiday pecan pie with coffee all in a glass. You know I’ll be looking for this one again.

 Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??