Southern Tier Pumking

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Lakewood, New York USA

(Bottle at Pikkulintu) Poured amber and clear with medium sized and white head. Aroma contained sweetness, spices, bisquits and malts. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, spices, bisquits, sweetness and mild bitterness. Aftertaste was malty and mildly bitter.

amber darkened colored and the head is small.. The aroma has strong notes of pumpkin. The flavour has a atrong sweetness and notes of cinnamon, cardamom, pumpkin and some ginger.

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are extreme. Never had this significant taste of pumpkin in a beer before. It makes all other pumpkin alles I have tasted fade into oblivion. It is nothing like any of the other 3800+ beers I have tasted so far. It is closest to what we in Denmark call a "spice cake" or a "beer cake". Really intense pumpkin. Behind all this there is also some caramel, malt, molasses and notes of hops.

This is a really unique pumpkin concoction that is essentially a desert beer. It is REALLY sweet for a pumpkin beer. Take a sniff, and you’ll get pumpkin cake with icing. I dig this stuff, but it is a one-pint kind of beer. Just too sweet to sit with all day. I really love it as an alternative to your typical pumpkin ale, though, but it can be hard to find. Seems like it hits the shelves and is gone within a week or two.

Courtesy of Strykzone this poured a hazy copper color with a moderate white creamy head and some light lacing. The nose is almost overwhelming and of pumpkin and nutmeg. The mouthfeel is somewhat lively and the body medium. . The flavor is somewhat sweet with a profusion of spices. I think I can detect cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon, and pepper. and of course lots of pumpkin. This is a very powerful version of a pumpkin beer and remarkably you would never know it was 9%. Kind of in a class by itself.

A: Pumking pours an opaque amber color with plenty of copper and orange highlights. A fluffy white head sits atop the beer. S: It smells like pumpkin pie in a glass. A great sweetness and all of the usual pumpkin pie spices such as cinnaomon, nutmeg, and all spice. A bit of a graham cracker and marshmallow aroma are present as well. T: Much like the nose would let on. A soft pumpkin flavor and a lot of the sweet and spicy characteristics of pumpkin pie. The marshmallow that was present in the nose is much more pronounced on the palate. There’s a bit of a "pie crust" taste on this too. M: The carbonation is fairly light and this is to the benefit of the beer, I feel. It is very smooth on the tongue and quite full bodied. D: A great flavor and aroma, but like actual pumpkin pie, I’m not sure how much of this I could actually drink.

Last tried from the bottle... but I’m going to rate it off the tap from the Trion. I can’t tell you how important it is that you try this from the tap... I loved it when I had it at the Trion, went to my store and bought our last bottle a few months ago. I opened it last night, and... GOD! The spices were just overwhelming, and the finish almost choked me. Please try it from the tap next year, or maybe a really fresh bottle... the difference in this instance is NIGHT and DAY!

This was so close to liquid pumpkin pie it was freaky. Both the aroma and the flavor was Fall spices and pumpkin. Some nice hop notes. Alcohol was never noticed and I was quite surprised to see it was 9%. Usually this type of beer falls well short but not Pumking. It was a bullseye.