Tonight's beer: Heavy Seas The Greater Pumpkin
Lots of caramel and molasses/brown sugar, some toast; pumpkins and baking spice (cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg) woven tightly in. Vanilla threaded sparingly throughout. Earthy-grassy bitterness around the fringes. Starts sweet, ends ... mostly sweet (which I'm OK with, for the style).
Kinda thick and syrupy-sticky, lightly carbonated. A trace of boozy glow after the finish, pretty subdued for 10% ABV. Gently drying, eventually and gradually.
Yum! A big and slightly boozy pumpkin ale, with more than enough substance to last a while in the bottle—this has had about six months, and seems maybe to have mellowed a bit. Still intense and complex, might be better-balanced and -integrated than fresh. Drinkable as hell, supple and subtle and surprisingly graceful. An excellent beer, from a brewer very local to me.
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| Heavy Seas The Greater Pumpkin |
Lots of caramel and molasses/brown sugar, some toast; pumpkins and baking spice (cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg) woven tightly in. Vanilla threaded sparingly throughout. Earthy-grassy bitterness around the fringes. Starts sweet, ends ... mostly sweet (which I'm OK with, for the style).
Kinda thick and syrupy-sticky, lightly carbonated. A trace of boozy glow after the finish, pretty subdued for 10% ABV. Gently drying, eventually and gradually.
Yum! A big and slightly boozy pumpkin ale, with more than enough substance to last a while in the bottle—this has had about six months, and seems maybe to have mellowed a bit. Still intense and complex, might be better-balanced and -integrated than fresh. Drinkable as hell, supple and subtle and surprisingly graceful. An excellent beer, from a brewer very local to me.
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