Tonight's beer: Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Bright spice up front—mainly cardamom, I think—with other spices (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, others?) more in the background. Caramel, dark bread, and pumpkins a step behind the spices, then some earthy-grassy bitterness arises and dries the beer out before folding into the spice. Distant traces of whiskey and rum.
Bready and thick but soft; feels well-carbonated, but some of that prickle might be alchol (and that's the only warning of the 8% ABV). Plenty drying and remarkably close to refreshing.
One of my very favorite pumpkin beers (along with Southern Tier Pumking, the Fisherman's Imperial Pumpkin Stout, and Midnight Sun TREAT), and one I buy a handful of every year. New packaging, same awesome beer. A massively drinkable pumpkin cookie of a beer. Intensely and complexly flavorful; lots of stuff all integrated very well (balance here is hard to define and is almost certainly too objective to quantify). A great beer for a pretty raw early-autumnal evening.
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| Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale |
Bright spice up front—mainly cardamom, I think—with other spices (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, others?) more in the background. Caramel, dark bread, and pumpkins a step behind the spices, then some earthy-grassy bitterness arises and dries the beer out before folding into the spice. Distant traces of whiskey and rum.
Bready and thick but soft; feels well-carbonated, but some of that prickle might be alchol (and that's the only warning of the 8% ABV). Plenty drying and remarkably close to refreshing.
One of my very favorite pumpkin beers (along with Southern Tier Pumking, the Fisherman's Imperial Pumpkin Stout, and Midnight Sun TREAT), and one I buy a handful of every year. New packaging, same awesome beer. A massively drinkable pumpkin cookie of a beer. Intensely and complexly flavorful; lots of stuff all integrated very well (balance here is hard to define and is almost certainly too objective to quantify). A great beer for a pretty raw early-autumnal evening.
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