Tonight's beer: Elysian Dark o' the Moon
Lots of roast and toast: chocolate, coffee, burnt bread, blackstrap molasses. Cinnamon, backed by other baking spices; some earth and grass and peat in the background. Maybe a glimmer of smoke in the distance. Pumpkins a rich and constant contrapuntal presence. Darkly bittersweet, then quite dry.
Pretty thick and dense, well-carbonated. Chewy and a little sticky, very drying and close to refreshing. A dim possible glow of alcohol. Very filling and satisfyiong.
Yum! A very excellent pumpkin stout, with tons of intense and complex flavor for a non-imperial (6.5% ABV) beer. Extraordinarily well-integrated, if tending heavily to the roasty and cinnamon-laden. A marvelous beer to have on Hallowe'en. If this had been my first pumpkin stout, it would probably be my definitive one (but that was a different beer). Very impressive.
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| Elysian Dark o' the Moon |
Lots of roast and toast: chocolate, coffee, burnt bread, blackstrap molasses. Cinnamon, backed by other baking spices; some earth and grass and peat in the background. Maybe a glimmer of smoke in the distance. Pumpkins a rich and constant contrapuntal presence. Darkly bittersweet, then quite dry.
Pretty thick and dense, well-carbonated. Chewy and a little sticky, very drying and close to refreshing. A dim possible glow of alcohol. Very filling and satisfyiong.
Yum! A very excellent pumpkin stout, with tons of intense and complex flavor for a non-imperial (6.5% ABV) beer. Extraordinarily well-integrated, if tending heavily to the roasty and cinnamon-laden. A marvelous beer to have on Hallowe'en. If this had been my first pumpkin stout, it would probably be my definitive one (but that was a different beer). Very impressive.
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