Tonight's beer: Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin
First impression is a health dollop (to say the least) of baking spices, including (but not limited to) cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger; there's a solid backdrop of pumpkins, caramel, bread, and toast. Densely braided threads of maple and molasses (and maybe honey) woven in. Earthy-grassy bitterness emerges into the aftertaste (with maybe a dash of peat and/or smoke) as the beer struggles to dry out (and mostly succeeds).
Kinda thick and dense, sparsely carbonated. Chewy and sticky, tending toward pillowy softness. Roughly zero alcohol presence. Filling and satisfying.
A delicious pumpkin pie of a beer, laden with—dominated by—the sorts of spices one would find in a pumpkin pie. Crazily intense and complex, and decently integrated. Quite drinkable, but at 8% ABV (without any warning) it's probably better treated as a sipping beer. I haven't had much Long Trail (and that, not for a long time); I should do something about that: This is probably the best beer I've had from Vermont.
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| Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin |
First impression is a health dollop (to say the least) of baking spices, including (but not limited to) cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger; there's a solid backdrop of pumpkins, caramel, bread, and toast. Densely braided threads of maple and molasses (and maybe honey) woven in. Earthy-grassy bitterness emerges into the aftertaste (with maybe a dash of peat and/or smoke) as the beer struggles to dry out (and mostly succeeds).
Kinda thick and dense, sparsely carbonated. Chewy and sticky, tending toward pillowy softness. Roughly zero alcohol presence. Filling and satisfying.
A delicious pumpkin pie of a beer, laden with—dominated by—the sorts of spices one would find in a pumpkin pie. Crazily intense and complex, and decently integrated. Quite drinkable, but at 8% ABV (without any warning) it's probably better treated as a sipping beer. I haven't had much Long Trail (and that, not for a long time); I should do something about that: This is probably the best beer I've had from Vermont.
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