Baseline Pumpkin Ale Senario

This bottle of Honey Pumpkin Ale was bottled as a baseline scenario, the starting point without adjuncts, additives, odd elements (those bottled with Kelp) and experimental flavaz, the ordinary least squares, lowest aggregate, the path of least resistance, and most regression.  

This was the head cornerstone of this batch, made with fresh pumpkin, cored, carved, peeled, roasted and fermented right along with the malts, as if it were grown in the next field over.

It turned out well and suggests good things for the whole batch and any of the odd, offbeat, racy, radical permutations, starting with a nice, if loose froth, and mildly hoppy aromas lingering about the nose, like a summer hobo, outside the pub, soaked in whiskey, next to the single ladies in their perfumes, emitting smoke along with his borrowed cigarette, giving you that heads up that sparks a very slight adrenal spike before you walk in: "who knows, this could be a dangerous place".

But once your in the glass, and this ale floods your mouth and gums you're fine, you're going to be fine, and you know it because it has balanced, full malty mouth feel to complement the dark brown hue, like the light bouncing off the wood paneling or well worked and worn out wood fixtures on the bar top and rail.  It's fine, full bodied, familiar and flavorful.  

Makes me seriously think, if and probs nothing else, the fresh roasted pumpkin may impart a tannic quality that enriches the mouth feel beyond the grains and any Belgian candy canes.  And it makes me glad I added the extra honey.

Here's my prediction-- this Baseline Honey Pumpkin Ale Scenario it a winner, and the variations that I've bottled from it will be one BLITZ after another, stunt after stunt, sack after sack of grain in a Super BOIL a fermented out just in time Superbowl.  That's what my little cabron bubbles have been doing while your little digital guys with the big hearts have been running their routes with Flacco, king of the angry birds.