Tonight's beer: Southern Tier Warlock
Dark roasty flavors—coffee and unsweetened dark chocolate—thickly woven with pumpkin, caramel, baking spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, maybe ginger); brown sugar/molasses and vanilla around the edges. Earthy-grassy bitterness comes forward around the end, as the beer struggles to dry out (and succeeds, at least a little).
Bready-thick, chewy, lightly-carbonated. Some lingering stickiness. Mostly no alcohol presence. Eventually, mildly gently drying.
Egad. I'd forgotten, I think, how completely Southern Tier nailed the pumpkin stout as dessert beer concept, here; they got it at least as right as anyone else's I've tried. Deliriously intense and complex, surprisingly well-integrated and something a lot like balanced, given the obvious intent. Scarily drinkable, with no warning at all of the 10% ABV. I'm obviously a fan of the brewery, and of the beer.
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| Southern Tier Warlock |
Dark roasty flavors—coffee and unsweetened dark chocolate—thickly woven with pumpkin, caramel, baking spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, maybe ginger); brown sugar/molasses and vanilla around the edges. Earthy-grassy bitterness comes forward around the end, as the beer struggles to dry out (and succeeds, at least a little).
Bready-thick, chewy, lightly-carbonated. Some lingering stickiness. Mostly no alcohol presence. Eventually, mildly gently drying.
Egad. I'd forgotten, I think, how completely Southern Tier nailed the pumpkin stout as dessert beer concept, here; they got it at least as right as anyone else's I've tried. Deliriously intense and complex, surprisingly well-integrated and something a lot like balanced, given the obvious intent. Scarily drinkable, with no warning at all of the 10% ABV. I'm obviously a fan of the brewery, and of the beer.
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