Fat Jack Double Pumpkin:
Hello one and all, I hope this finds all of you well, cool, and dry.  Today we venture back into the pumpkin patch with Linus and seek out that elusive great pumpkin and today we get to a beer that falls into a the “possible suspects” category: Samuel Adams’ Fat Jack.  This pumpkin ale is brewed with over 28 lbs of pumpkin per barrel and has the full range of pumpkin spices. The beer pours a deep brown color with a dirty white head and a nose of strong dark fruit and a sweet pumpkin undertone.  The beer’s initial taste is of a good strong pumpkin with a noticeable English ale taste while the mid tongue is a nice rounded pumpkin pie flavor that stays with the beverage through the final swallow and a nice allspice aftertaste.  I was really surprised by this beer seeing how Sam has been flooding the market lately with these new big bottles of limited brews and that is reason enough to look at them with a skeptical eye and palate.  So never fear, dear readers, this is an enjoyable beer, very easy to drink, heavy enough for a warming sensation that is common with good English ales.   If you find this one, grab it and enjoy, I think you’ll be very happy.