Black Creek Pumpkin Ale

Black Creek Historic Brewery
Brewed at Trafalgar Ales & Meads
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Toronto, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Bottle [500ml]. Pours a cloudy, bubbly orange-amber with a small lasting fizzy off-white head. Decent but simple aroma of pumpkin, some sweet vanilla, spices and caramel malt. Slightly watery flavour follows the aroma but it’s a little subtle for the style. Light bitter finish. Average bodied. Like I said, it’s decent but I like more flavour in my Pumkin beers.

Pours an orange amber with a frothy white top. Aroma is light pumpkin and sweet malts. Taste is a light combination of spice, pumpkin and caramel malts.

500ml bottle from the LCBO. Clear bubbly copper with a smallish fizzy off-white head. Sharply spicy slightly vegetal aroma - plenty of nutmeg and cinnamon. Taste follows, a bit buttery. Light body, sharp carbonation, weirdly oily - taste fades incredibly fast. Meh.

Bottle from LCBO. Pours clear orange with a thin white head. Aroma of yoghurt, slight pumpkin hints, and no spice. Taste, however, is just pumpkin and spice. Thin-bodied. Not bad, but not great.

Orange ambery red to light orange golden pale away. 1 finger head. Fast amount of carbination then bam go’s slow with all carbination. Smell is pumpkin pie. Taste well 1st sip was real pumpkin insides with roasted pumpkin seeds and was a tad sour. The roasted seeds came back on sip 3. It leav’s me dry and the wetness go’s fast but you also get cinnamon as the base, cloves that scrach up the throat and mabye some nutmeg. All pumpkin beers rock but some r better then other’s and there’s better. Fan of pumpkin beer’s.

Pours a slight hazy amber colour with a creamy off-white head that gives out a bit of lacing. Not really enjoying the scent. Reminds me of when you forget your pumpkin puree in the fridge for a while and they start turning bad. OK, not as bad as it sounds, but kind of outdated (maybe gets better near the last pour). Cannot smell the spices either. The taste is a bit better. Creamy mouthfeel with the Black Creek grain malt flavours. Still, not much spices. Preferred the new Rickards Cardigan for the spices of Autumn.

Bottle, pour is dark aroma is nice and spicy the flavour is spicy as well, pretty yummy, a light spice, and a good malt base. Nice offering

Poured from 500ml bottle. Poured clear copper orange colour with decent head, but disappeared quickly. Slight pumpkin aroma, with spicy malts. Taste about the same. Pumpkin flavour malt. Different, a nice change, but nothing spectacular.

500mL LcBo bottle. Pours a nice clear orange with no head. The aroma is a lifeless spiced pumpkin type character that fails to impress in any way. The flavour is marginally better, with some standard pumpkin spice aspects propping up a mediocre malt body. Feels light with some residual sugars. I don’t know, this stuff was so bland I really can’t give it much points for anything really. I usually expect better from this brewery, even the stuff made at Trafalgar.

Bottle 500 ml
Aroma: bold for pumpkin ale, vanilla, sugar with spicess, touch of clove and fruit. 6+
Look: fine haze on bright amber, lighter off white top.No lace. 3-
Taste etc: lighter bodied. Gingerbread with spicess. Not overly sweet , just tad light. Proper seasonal spice feel. Bitterness from cinnamon. Decent.