Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas The Great Pumpkin
Lots of caramel and pumpkins and spices to start. Bread and toast right behind, with distinct impressions of maple syrup and/or molasses. Hints in the background of some earthy-grassy bitterness, struggling to balance the sweet (with help from the spices, which aren't actually sweet). Maybe a lick or something like whiskey or rum or brandy.
Kinda densely bready, with gentle carbonation. Some soft syrupy stickiness, leads to a long finish. Some dryness, and some gentle boozy warmth. Kinda on the filling side.
A very pleasant big (or at least biggish) pumpkin beer from a brewer that has earned a lot of my trust and has the further advantage of being local to me (less than twenty miles away). Intensely and complexly flavorful, and nicely-integrated. There are reasons I've gotten this the past couple autumns, and will continue to for as long as they make it.
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| Heavy Seas The Great Pumpkin |
Lots of caramel and pumpkins and spices to start. Bread and toast right behind, with distinct impressions of maple syrup and/or molasses. Hints in the background of some earthy-grassy bitterness, struggling to balance the sweet (with help from the spices, which aren't actually sweet). Maybe a lick or something like whiskey or rum or brandy.
Kinda densely bready, with gentle carbonation. Some soft syrupy stickiness, leads to a long finish. Some dryness, and some gentle boozy warmth. Kinda on the filling side.
A very pleasant big (or at least biggish) pumpkin beer from a brewer that has earned a lot of my trust and has the further advantage of being local to me (less than twenty miles away). Intensely and complexly flavorful, and nicely-integrated. There are reasons I've gotten this the past couple autumns, and will continue to for as long as they make it.
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