Tonight's beer: The Bruery Autumn Maple
Starts with lots of dark sweetness: dark bread as a foundation upon which are layered yams, brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla, baking spices (allspice, cinnamon, cloves). Eventually the sweetness recedes, leaving the spices to mingle with emerging earthy-grassy (maybe floral) bitterness into a long gradual finish.
Medium-bodied or thereabouts, with some soft carbonation. Gently drying, quite refreshing. Just the slightest kiss of boozy prickle, very subdued for 10% ABV. Some syrupy stickiness.
Wow. A supremely drinkable beer that nicely occupies the pumpkin beer niche without any pumpkins. Refreshingly atypical for a fall seasonal, much as I love pumpkin beers. Crazily intense and complex, wonderfully well-integrated, poised and graceful and supple and balanced. A delicious treat of a beer.
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| The Bruery Autumn Maple |
Starts with lots of dark sweetness: dark bread as a foundation upon which are layered yams, brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla, baking spices (allspice, cinnamon, cloves). Eventually the sweetness recedes, leaving the spices to mingle with emerging earthy-grassy (maybe floral) bitterness into a long gradual finish.
Medium-bodied or thereabouts, with some soft carbonation. Gently drying, quite refreshing. Just the slightest kiss of boozy prickle, very subdued for 10% ABV. Some syrupy stickiness.
Wow. A supremely drinkable beer that nicely occupies the pumpkin beer niche without any pumpkins. Refreshingly atypical for a fall seasonal, much as I love pumpkin beers. Crazily intense and complex, wonderfully well-integrated, poised and graceful and supple and balanced. A delicious treat of a beer.
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