Big Time Hopgoblin Pumpkin Ale

Light brown with small head. Aroma of pumpkin pie spice. Chocolate, cinnamon and bitter hops in the taste. Very solid.

(Draught) Sampled at Elysian Pumpkin Beer Festival on October 20, 2007. Dissipated head and deep copper body. Mince meat nose. Flavour of mild malt with overtones of nutmeg. Good.

10/20/07 On draught at the Elysian Pumpkin Festival. Aroma is solid pumpkin and cinnamon spice. Appearance is hazy brown low tan head. Flavor is very similar to the aroma, just the pumpkin and cinnamon are more muted. Medium bodied and warm, this has a very low grain texture and carb bite. Not bad and very easy drinking, the flavors are very mild versus most of the other pumpkin brews.

Hazy amber. Very spicy nose with light brown sugar and caramel. There’s some spice in the finish. Good, but fairly straightforward.

This pumpkin ale--is exactly that--a medium bodied ale with a touch of pumpkin wound into it. The appearance is a moderately full amber with a ring of head and the subtle notes of pumpkin waft up with small tints of spice and cholate detectable in the aroma as well. The flavor is balanced more towards the spicing than the pumpkin, with the allspice becomng more pronounced as the beer warms. The finish is somewhat sour--but this could be attributable to a pork and sauerkraut hangover from an earlier meal. A decent ale with a dash of pumpkin--it’s hard to believe the alcohol content is as high as listed.