Sixpoint Autumnation:
Hello friends and neighbors and welcome back.  As we continue our trek through the month of November we keep making these stops at cans, a lot of cans.  Yes I know, it’s an sudden abundance of aluminum in one month but “new canning” technology has allowed beer to move to the can and not lose its taste or gain a metallic taste from the can.  Some breweries like Sixpoint, which is today’s brewery, only can their beers and only in tallboy cans and that gives them a nice marketing point of some kind I’m sure.  Today’s beer out of Sixpoint is their Autumnation, a pumpkin ale with a more hops than anything else (including pumpkin).  The beer pours a semi-transparent amber with a ton of carbonation that produces a dull white head that leaves plenty of lacing and a nose of grapefruit and spice.  The initial taste is reminiscent of a strong pale ale or IPA with hops taking up most of the flavor, in fact, they take up the most of the palate with only a slight hint of spices on the mid tongue.  The pumpkin flavor shows up as an after taste though it does have to compete with the hop/skunk that a hoppy beer leaves you with.  This is a beer with a little too much going on with it, I don’t mind that they used hops with it but they used so much that it ruins what ever pumpkin there is in the beer.  Not a bad beer but not something I will revisit from them anytime soon.