 Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Brutal Battle Beer Break. As everybody knows, one of the most highly acclaimed pumpkin beers is Pumpking by Southern Tier, and Southern Tier is out of Lakewood, New York. And so we have a special version for today's episode of the Pumpking. It is the Imperial Rum Barrel-Aged Pumpking. I think this is the first time they've done this, and people have been going kind of nuts for it because they want to try it because typically everybody really likes, you know, the pumpkin pie type flavors of the Pumpking with the graham cracker to it and all the spices and everything like that. So I'm interested to see how that's going to play with the rum barrel. And honestly, I don't think I've ever had any beer aged in rum barrels before, so this will be a first for me on that front. And certainly my first, oh, my second barrel-aged pumpkin beer. The first one I have was a shipyard bourbon barrel-aged pumpkin beer. This one is 10.7% alcohol by volume, so it's a big one. As you can see, there's, oh, it's a pumpkin guy, check that out. Yeah, and then it just says Pumpking, all the da-da-da, whatever. Interesting. So pop this sucker open, give it a nice pour. All right, as we can see, I mean it's basically the same color you're going to expect from the regular Pumpking. It's very orangy. There's a lot of carbonation in it, but it's like really large bubbles. Very interesting. Let's see how it smells. I can definitely smell spirits in there. I get a little bit of that kind of graham crackery note peeking through. It kind of smells a little bit like pencil shavings too, for some reason. That might be the wood from the barrel coming through. And I actually do get some like straight-up pumpkin. Smells interesting. The amount of straight-up pumpkin I get in it is very much more pronounced than what I typically get out of a regular Pumpking. Out of the regular Pumpking, you mainly kind of get like the graham cracker and the spices. So it seems like the pumpkin is amped up in this. Hmm, okay. It's interesting because I'm still getting that graham crackery taste. I'm getting a lot of pumpkin flavor to it. And the rum barrel aging has kind of given it this kind of smooth butteriness on top. So it's kind of like if you would have like a well-spiced piece of pumpkin pie with a graham cracker crust and then had like some butter laid on top of it. It's given it a little bit of like a vanilla-y note as well to it, which I'm finding pretty pleasant honestly. Ten point seven percent alcohol. I cannot taste that. I would put this maybe eight or nine percent. So I think that they did a pretty good job blending that in. What sits on my palate at the end of each sip is that graham crackery taste, which I typically like a lot of people like about the Pumpking beers. So this is good. I'm a fan. Now that I'm now that's been sitting in my palate a little bit more, I'm getting like a little bit of a marshmallow-y flavor to it as well. So it's kind of like boozy, marshmallow, buttery pumpkin pie. If that sounds good to you, then this is a beer that would definitely hit the spot for you. So yeah, Southern Tears Imperial Rum Barrel Age Pumpking. Thumbs up on that one. Thanks everyone for checking this episode out and go get yourself a beer.