Draft - pours brown tan head - nose and taste of pumpkin, cinnamon, spice and bourbon - medium body

Draught at the brewery with KBHess, 10/9/16.
Clear, dark mahogany-to-caramel colored body is topped by a small, beige head showing moderate retention.
Definite bourbon undertones with easygoing pumpkin notes and certainly some pumpkin pie-like spices, but nothing artificial smelling and for 8.1, it’s not boozy. Strong breadiness from the malt adding toasted sourdough character which is kind of problematic with the spicing. So it comes off very dry, spicy and moderately bourbony.
Dry, as their beers are, with a texture varying between some specialty malt-like hardness and softer base malts. Caramel, toffee and moderate spice, with strong toasted oak and bourbon notes producing vanilla, wood and more liquor character. Drinkable, though a bit too much specialty malt, bourbon and spice for my liking. That being said, I have no idea how you would do a bourbon pumpkin ale without it being rather full of these flavors.