The other one I'm doing for tonight is a limited seasonal release from Jackie O's called Barking Pumpkin. As you can guess from the name, this is a pumpkin ale.



A huge malt bill gives this fall seasonal beer its unique canvas. 60 pounds of locally hand picked pumpkin are roasted and glazed with brown sugar and honey in our pub’s pizza oven. The pumpkin flesh (no skin, it adds an astringent bitterness) is added to the mash melding with the already complex grist. American hop varieties provide a formidable bitterness and some great flavor and aroma. At the end of the boil the wort is spiced with ginger, coriander, cinnamon, all spice, nutmeg, and more brown sugar help sculpt this pumpkin beer. After the fermentation the beer spends a little over a week on vanilla beans and cinnamon sticks!
Poured a clear, red-brown into a Shaker glass with a medium khaki head. Smells like what you'd typically smell in a good pumpkin ale. Pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg but you also get the mentioned ginger and honey. This does indeed have a large malt backbone as they state. The previously mentioned scents are also found within the flavor in well balanced proportion. Pretty sweet with a ghostly bitterness on the finish. The body is on the heavy side and this features a 9% ABV. Not the best pumpkin ale I've had but a very, very good pumpkin ale nonetheless. Definitely recommend!