Tonight's beer: Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin
Lots of sweetness to start: caramel, cooked pumpkin, toast, molasses; woody baking spices fill in, nutmeg and cloves and cinnamon and cardamom. Spice melds with earthy-grassy bitterness as the beer transitions toward dry. Flickers of vanilla in the background.
Soft, thick, chewy, gently but adequately carbonated. Quietly drying, surprisingly refreshing. A little chewy and sticky but mostly clean. Just the barest sparkle of boozy warmth.
Not all that atypical a pumpkin beer, though the spice selection is a bit idiosyncratic; it's a delicious one, though. Smooth, graceful, intense, complex; supple and drinkable and balanced and completely integrated. There are lots of pumpkin beers released every fall (or thereabouts) and this is one I make room for every year.
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| Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin |
Lots of sweetness to start: caramel, cooked pumpkin, toast, molasses; woody baking spices fill in, nutmeg and cloves and cinnamon and cardamom. Spice melds with earthy-grassy bitterness as the beer transitions toward dry. Flickers of vanilla in the background.
Soft, thick, chewy, gently but adequately carbonated. Quietly drying, surprisingly refreshing. A little chewy and sticky but mostly clean. Just the barest sparkle of boozy warmth.
Not all that atypical a pumpkin beer, though the spice selection is a bit idiosyncratic; it's a delicious one, though. Smooth, graceful, intense, complex; supple and drinkable and balanced and completely integrated. There are lots of pumpkin beers released every fall (or thereabouts) and this is one I make room for every year.
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