Tonight's beer: Flying Dog The Fear
Dark bread/toast, caramel, strong impressions of chocolate; pumpkins, toffee, spices (cinnamon, cloves, allspice; touches of ginger and nutmeg) filling in the gaps and the background. A flicker of earthy-grassy-floral bitterness at the finish. Sweet at the start; spicy through the middle; dries out nicely at the end.
Medium-bodied, maybe a bit heavier, nicely carbonated. A little bready-chewy and substantially syrupy-sticky. Some roasty-drying on the back end. A gentle warming kiss of alcohol is the only hint of the 9% ABV. Pretty smooth, all in all; definitely satisfying and almost refreshing.
A startlingly enjoyable beer—astonishingly drinkable—that straddles a boundary between pumpkin stouts/porters and more conventional pumpkin beers. Intense and complex; amazingly well balanced and integrated. Delicious. I missed this beer last year, and I'm glad I found it this year.
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| Flying Dog The Fear |
Dark bread/toast, caramel, strong impressions of chocolate; pumpkins, toffee, spices (cinnamon, cloves, allspice; touches of ginger and nutmeg) filling in the gaps and the background. A flicker of earthy-grassy-floral bitterness at the finish. Sweet at the start; spicy through the middle; dries out nicely at the end.
Medium-bodied, maybe a bit heavier, nicely carbonated. A little bready-chewy and substantially syrupy-sticky. Some roasty-drying on the back end. A gentle warming kiss of alcohol is the only hint of the 9% ABV. Pretty smooth, all in all; definitely satisfying and almost refreshing.
A startlingly enjoyable beer—astonishingly drinkable—that straddles a boundary between pumpkin stouts/porters and more conventional pumpkin beers. Intense and complex; amazingly well balanced and integrated. Delicious. I missed this beer last year, and I'm glad I found it this year.
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