The day was Sunday, February 1, 2015. While watching a certain professional championship game featuring an oblong sports object made out of pigskiin, a Budweiser commercial came on.

This time, no Clydesdales or puppies. It was just Bud and their contempt for craft beer.

They said we are fussy. That beer wasn’t meant to be sipped. They crowed, “Let them drink their pumpkin peach ales.”

Like the dim-witted bully that got held back in fifth grade and picked on the smart kids who tried to avoid his malarky, our protagontist, Bud, sucker punched us in the belly and whomped us right up the side of our heads. Oww! Whadja do that for?

We hit the books and ISO how to make that pumpkin peach ale.

The result was 24 bottles of Fussy Sipper. 23 beer geeks got a bottle, while we kept one to sample.
Beer geeks: This Fuss is for You!


 

Fussy Sipper Pumpkin Peach Ale

Style Guidelines: Fruit Beer.

Rotation Schedule: Not yet established

Food Pairings: Apricot pancakes; steamed mussels; light white meat; duck and pork roasted with fruit compote; cheesecake; marscapone

Body: medium
Color: bronze

Grain: British Lager, Pale, Victory, Wheat, Carapils and Chocolate

Bittering Hops: German Hallertau
Finishing Hops: German Hallertau, Mittlefrueh

Adjuncts: Belgian light and dark candi sugar; pureed pumpkin and peaches

Original Gravity: 1.066
IBUs (estimate): 20
Alcohol By Volume: 7.2%

Bottle Release: April 7, 2015, on National Beer Day
First Tapped: December 3, 2015