BridgePort Witch Hunt Spiced Harvest Ale:
Howdy partners and a hearty and happy greetings to you all on this fine fall day.  Since we are on the verge of fall weather hitting the area let’s look at a fall harvest beer from Bridgeport Brewery out of Oregon.  Witch Hunt Spiced Harvest Ale is one of those beers that wedges itself in the world of fall and pumpkin beers and actually does things well enough to make itself stand out.  Much like New Belgium’s Red Hoptober , this brew combines a nice hop taste and adds a subtle, but still noticeable, taste of cinnamon and nutmeg.  The beer pours a familiar amber color with a nice finger of white head that dissipates to a patch work of islands on top of the beer and some lacing with a nose of hops and a hint of cinnamon.  The initial taste is a heavy nutmeg flavor with a undertone of hops that develops towards the mid tongue where the carbonation really allows the flavors of the cinnamon and nutmeg to really show up and make themselves known.  The back end taste is similar to a weaker pale ale with a subtle hop taste and the after taste is very smooth and a hint of dryness that won’t allow you to forget it and actually pushes you to crave another sip (like a good beer should).  I was really surprised by this beer, much better than I thought it would be though the beer could be named better (this name seems to evoke more of a stout or barley wine style in my mind) but they didn’t ask my opinion when naming this so I won’t harp.  If you can find one, grab it and enjoy but if you’re looking for that really different fall beer, stick with the Red Hoptober.