Tonight's beer: Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin
Lots of pumpkins, heavily (but not overpoweringly) spiced: mainly cinnamon and cloves, ginger and allspice and maybe ginger. Bread and caramel a sturdy backbone, possibilities of brown sugar and butter in the interstices. Grassy-earthy bitterness emerges slightly around the middle, hangs on as the beer struggles to dry out. Vanilla and smoke waft past, occasionally.
A bit on the heavy and thick side of medium-bodied, with carbonation maybe a little sparse but adequate. Lots of bready chewiness and syrupy stickiness; eventually musters a little drying and edges a little toward refreshing. Some slight warmth in the belly, maybe.
A very nice pumpkin beer, from a brewery I keep meaning to look into in more depth, but keep forgetting about. Intense and complex as hell, wonderfully well-balanced. Supple and graceful and very drinkable. Tasty enough to look for every year, really.
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| Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin |
Lots of pumpkins, heavily (but not overpoweringly) spiced: mainly cinnamon and cloves, ginger and allspice and maybe ginger. Bread and caramel a sturdy backbone, possibilities of brown sugar and butter in the interstices. Grassy-earthy bitterness emerges slightly around the middle, hangs on as the beer struggles to dry out. Vanilla and smoke waft past, occasionally.
A bit on the heavy and thick side of medium-bodied, with carbonation maybe a little sparse but adequate. Lots of bready chewiness and syrupy stickiness; eventually musters a little drying and edges a little toward refreshing. Some slight warmth in the belly, maybe.
A very nice pumpkin beer, from a brewery I keep meaning to look into in more depth, but keep forgetting about. Intense and complex as hell, wonderfully well-balanced. Supple and graceful and very drinkable. Tasty enough to look for every year, really.
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