Diabolically dichotomous dark ale hybrid effectively contrasts brown-sugared cinnamon spicing and pumpkin pie sweetness against brooding black chocolate-embittered coffee milking, fudgy cocoa richness and salty pumpkin seeding. Mildly creamed caramel malting brings out ancillary gingerbread-spiced Graham Cracker nicety to counter ashen charcoal acridity. Tertiary chocolate rum cake, glazed pecan, hazelnut praline, charred walnut, dried cherry and dry burgundy illusions graze cinnamon-toasted nutmeg, cardamom, sage and sandalwood licks. Tenacious!

Essentially, a more robust and intense version of brewers’ pumpkin stout. Larger dark-roasted black chocolate contingent rides above dry ginger-cinnamon-nutmeg spicing and brown-sugared molasses creaming. Beechwood-like smokiness drapes rich mocha malting. Distant florality adds depth to pumpkin-spiced backdrop.

Ripe pumpkin pie surge integrates lactic mocha-molasses expectancy and sharp-hopped cinnamon-nutmeg spicing, but earthen autumnal seasoning may preclude frothy brown chocolate sweetness and mild espresso bittering a tad. Cola, hazelnut and walnut dot fungi potassium soiling to peated vegetal bottom. ’12 version: earthier pumpkin-seeded astringency, weedier black tea bittering and sourer stove-burnt coffee trove enhance pungent Brit-styled gourd spicing and dry stout tendencies.