This orange-colored, highly aromatic autumn brew comes with a fine and stable head. The spicy bouquet is redolent of distinct notes of cinnamon, cloves, and of course, pumpkin. Likewise, the taste is a rich blend of pumpkin and spice set against a restrained bitterness and stone-fruit earthiness emanating from the English hop variety Fuggle and the American Fuggle-descendent Willamette. The beer’s body is nonetheless slender. In the finish, this beer is refreshing, with a pleasant, almost peppery edge of allspice and ginger, and a mildly sweet pumpkin background flavor.
In the tradition of an American Thanksgiving dinner, this ale goes well with roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, and creamy mashed potatoes; or, alternatively, with a juicy honey baked ham with its crisp, caramelized coating.
Ingredients: Water, Weyermann® barley malt, pumpkin (15%), hops, yeast, cinnamon, clove, allspice, ginger