Tonight's beer: Ballast Point Pumpkin Down
Opens with lots of caramel, some pumpkin and baking spices—cloves, allspice, cinnamon, maybe ginger. Bread and toast through the middle, with earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness arising a little later. Stays pretty sweet throughout, slides slightly toward dry by the finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, with lots of loose soda-like carbonation. Some soft stickiness. Wraps up gently drying, tending toward refreshing.
This is a delicious beer; basing a pumpkin beer on a Scottish ale turns out to be a pretty good idea. Plenty intense, nicely complex; balanced and integrated and superbly drinkable. I saw this beer and based on the style and the brewery I had high hopes for it; I'm happy those hopes turned out to be justified.
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| Ballast Point Pumpkin Down |
Opens with lots of caramel, some pumpkin and baking spices—cloves, allspice, cinnamon, maybe ginger. Bread and toast through the middle, with earthy-peaty-grassy bitterness arising a little later. Stays pretty sweet throughout, slides slightly toward dry by the finish.
A little thicker than medium-bodied, with lots of loose soda-like carbonation. Some soft stickiness. Wraps up gently drying, tending toward refreshing.
This is a delicious beer; basing a pumpkin beer on a Scottish ale turns out to be a pretty good idea. Plenty intense, nicely complex; balanced and integrated and superbly drinkable. I saw this beer and based on the style and the brewery I had high hopes for it; I'm happy those hopes turned out to be justified.
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