Tonight's beer: Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Lots of bright and woody spice: cardamom and nutmeg, some cloves and ginger and cinnamon. A good dollop of pumpkins, backed by caramel and toast and molasses. Flickers of earth and grass and flowers around the edges. Spice-sweet to start, evolves gradually toward dry.
Medium-bodied, soft, decently-carbonated. Gently drying and refreshing, with roughly zero alcohol presence. A little chewy, a bit sticky.
One of my favorite pumpkin beers—there's no good reason I hadn't had any this year, yet. Intense and stunningly complex, nicely integrated if a bit of a spice bomb (which is reasonable for the style); impressively drinkable in a sipping-dessert-beer way. Graceful and supple. A big old pumpkin cookie of a beer.
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| Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale |
Lots of bright and woody spice: cardamom and nutmeg, some cloves and ginger and cinnamon. A good dollop of pumpkins, backed by caramel and toast and molasses. Flickers of earth and grass and flowers around the edges. Spice-sweet to start, evolves gradually toward dry.
Medium-bodied, soft, decently-carbonated. Gently drying and refreshing, with roughly zero alcohol presence. A little chewy, a bit sticky.
One of my favorite pumpkin beers—there's no good reason I hadn't had any this year, yet. Intense and stunningly complex, nicely integrated if a bit of a spice bomb (which is reasonable for the style); impressively drinkable in a sipping-dessert-beer way. Graceful and supple. A big old pumpkin cookie of a beer.
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