Tonight's beer: Cape Ann Fisherman's Imperial Pumpkin Stout (2012)
Dark and toasty and toasty—coffee and chocolate and dark (as in, almost burnt) toast—with pumpkins, molasses, maple, spices—cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg (and maybe something else)—woven tightly in. Some earthy-grassy bitterness emerges around the finish, along with a flash of vanilla. Dim hints of dark spirits like whiskey and rum.
Thick and dense, soft and chewy and sticky. Gently carbonated. Very gently drying. Filing and satisfying, with roughly zero alcohol presence for a 11% ABV beer: maybe a vague glow.
A delicious beer, supple and subtle; mellowed by the extra time (about a year) in the bottle. Nicely intense, very complex; impressively well-integrated, if pretty much sweet-and-spicy from start to finish. Freakishly drinkable, dangerously deceptive. For me, the beer other pumpkin stouts (especially the big ones) are measured against. I haven't seen this yet this year, but there's still time and hope.
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| Cape Ann Fisherman's Imperial Pumpkin Stout (2012) |
Dark and toasty and toasty—coffee and chocolate and dark (as in, almost burnt) toast—with pumpkins, molasses, maple, spices—cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg (and maybe something else)—woven tightly in. Some earthy-grassy bitterness emerges around the finish, along with a flash of vanilla. Dim hints of dark spirits like whiskey and rum.
Thick and dense, soft and chewy and sticky. Gently carbonated. Very gently drying. Filing and satisfying, with roughly zero alcohol presence for a 11% ABV beer: maybe a vague glow.
A delicious beer, supple and subtle; mellowed by the extra time (about a year) in the bottle. Nicely intense, very complex; impressively well-integrated, if pretty much sweet-and-spicy from start to finish. Freakishly drinkable, dangerously deceptive. For me, the beer other pumpkin stouts (especially the big ones) are measured against. I haven't seen this yet this year, but there's still time and hope.
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