Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Pumpking
Lots of caramel and toast, with pumpkins, baking spices (cloves and cinnamon) and maybe some vanilla emerging quickly. Flickers of molasses, possibilities of butter. Dim hints of earthy-grassy bitterness around the finish. A sweet beer, pretty much from start to finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, with carbonation a bit on the light side. Lots of stickiness and chewiness—syrupy and bready—manages a little drying on the very finish. Roughly zero alcohol presence.
Wow. That's probably my reaction every year when I have this beer. There were a couple autumns early on in my beer nerd path when this beer didn't come around here reliably, but now it's here every year in good quantity—this is a *very* good thing for me. Intense as hell and remarkably complex, not particularly in the same universe as balanced but holds together superbly. Definitely a dessert beer, but drinkable in a sipping-beer way.
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| Southern Tier Pumpking |
Lots of caramel and toast, with pumpkins, baking spices (cloves and cinnamon) and maybe some vanilla emerging quickly. Flickers of molasses, possibilities of butter. Dim hints of earthy-grassy bitterness around the finish. A sweet beer, pretty much from start to finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, with carbonation a bit on the light side. Lots of stickiness and chewiness—syrupy and bready—manages a little drying on the very finish. Roughly zero alcohol presence.
Wow. That's probably my reaction every year when I have this beer. There were a couple autumns early on in my beer nerd path when this beer didn't come around here reliably, but now it's here every year in good quantity—this is a *very* good thing for me. Intense as hell and remarkably complex, not particularly in the same universe as balanced but holds together superbly. Definitely a dessert beer, but drinkable in a sipping-beer way.
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