Tonight's beer: Elysian The Great Pumpkin
Lots of caramel, some brown sugar/molasses and maple undertones. Plenty of pumpkin filling in all around, with appropriate baking spices—cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, maybe ginger. Bread and a little toast in the background, with vague hints of earthy-grassy bitterness. The beer does dry out some through the finish, but the overall impression is very much mostly sweet. Vanilla arises in the aftertaste.
Kinda bready-chewy, just a little thicker than medium-bodied. Very well-carbonated, but still tends strongly to the sticky. Gently drying, with maybe just a kiss of boozy warmth.
Yum! A very tasty pumpkin beer from a brewer that brews several different pumpkin beers (all of them at least excellent, that I've had). Intense and complex, but accessible; balanced and integrated and massively drinkable. I do not think I've had a bad beer from Elysian. It's kinda of a shame these beers are only around in the fall.
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| Elysian The Great Pumpkin |
Lots of caramel, some brown sugar/molasses and maple undertones. Plenty of pumpkin filling in all around, with appropriate baking spices—cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, maybe ginger. Bread and a little toast in the background, with vague hints of earthy-grassy bitterness. The beer does dry out some through the finish, but the overall impression is very much mostly sweet. Vanilla arises in the aftertaste.
Kinda bready-chewy, just a little thicker than medium-bodied. Very well-carbonated, but still tends strongly to the sticky. Gently drying, with maybe just a kiss of boozy warmth.
Yum! A very tasty pumpkin beer from a brewer that brews several different pumpkin beers (all of them at least excellent, that I've had). Intense and complex, but accessible; balanced and integrated and massively drinkable. I do not think I've had a bad beer from Elysian. It's kinda of a shame these beers are only around in the fall.
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