Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Warlock
Baking spices—nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, cloves—on top of a thick slab of roasty-toasty bittersweetness: toast, caramel, chocolate, coffee, dark bread; maybe a smear of molasses. Pumpkins sprinkled throughout. Earthy-grassy bitterness struggles to assert itself as the beer shifts slightly toward dry.
A little thicker and heavier than medium-bodied, carbonation a bit on the sparse side. Some chewiness, some stickiness; eventually softly drying and refreshing. Just a touch of boozy prickle.
Yummy, if the caramel backbone of Pumking doesn't put you off; it doesn't me. Intense and complex, entirely integrated if kinda dominated by the pumpkins and the spice. Pumpkin bread, not pumpkin pie; the bitter in the stout-malty backbone keeps the beer from seeming as sweet as many pumpkin beers. Superbly drinkable. I don't knot that this is a particularly cellarable beer, but it holds up well enough in the short term.
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| Southern Tier Warlock |
Baking spices—nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, cloves—on top of a thick slab of roasty-toasty bittersweetness: toast, caramel, chocolate, coffee, dark bread; maybe a smear of molasses. Pumpkins sprinkled throughout. Earthy-grassy bitterness struggles to assert itself as the beer shifts slightly toward dry.
A little thicker and heavier than medium-bodied, carbonation a bit on the sparse side. Some chewiness, some stickiness; eventually softly drying and refreshing. Just a touch of boozy prickle.
Yummy, if the caramel backbone of Pumking doesn't put you off; it doesn't me. Intense and complex, entirely integrated if kinda dominated by the pumpkins and the spice. Pumpkin bread, not pumpkin pie; the bitter in the stout-malty backbone keeps the beer from seeming as sweet as many pumpkin beers. Superbly drinkable. I don't knot that this is a particularly cellarable beer, but it holds up well enough in the short term.
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