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Cambridge Great Pumpkin Ale


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77
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A Spice/Herb/Vegetable brewed by
Cambridge Brewing Company

Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

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173.45/5.03.39/5.0Autumn4.2%85.1 Lager glass, Tumbler P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Back by popular (and incessant) demand, it’s CBC’s most sought after seasonal beer! The Great American Pumpkin Ale flows from the taps all Autumn long, through Thanksgiving, Brewed with over 125 pounds of fresh, locally grown, organic sugar pumpkins in each batch, (from our friends at The Farm School in Athol and Wilson Farms in Lexington!) it has an appropriately ruddy orange hue. The subtle pumpkin flavor is enhanced by the addition of traditional autumn spices, and is guaranteed to please even the most finicky of the harvest-time ale fanatics. Come raise a glass in honor of the Great Pumpkin!

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 bu11zeye (3565), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/513/20
Oct 29, 2007  
(Draught) Pours a clear bright orange body with a small white head. Aroma of pumpkin and sweet potato. Flavor of pumpkin, caramel malt, and light clove.


Allie (40), USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Oct 23, 2007  
I had this in a small glass from a tap at CBC. It came to the table with very little head left. The color was very nice, a kind of copper-dark honey look. The aroma was slightly fruity, but I didn’t get much trace of pumpkin in it. The palate was fairly full, carbonation OK. The flavor was rather ’beery’ but rich and warm, with some fruitiness and a moderate hop tang--but, again, little real pumpkin taste. It was very smooth, a nice tail with no nasty dregs. OK overall, but something of a disappointment. If they’re going to call this a pumpkin, they need more pumpkin in it. I’ll take a Dogfish Head Pumpkin over this.


 kitschy (119), Nebraska, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 16, 2007  
on tap at gabf. Smells like a pumpkin pie with buttery graham cracker crust, and tastes like it too! clearly going for the pumpkin pie flavor, this beer includes many pie spices, nice hefty palate, and great malt presence. a true delight.


 gws57 (947), Saint Charles, Illinois, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/105/514/20
Oct 13, 2007  
Had this one on draught at the brewpub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hazy medium orange pour with a thin white head, sweet candy apple nose with some cider, pumpkin and clove. Spicy finish. Good!


 stegosaurus (1883), Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/102/513/20
Sep 24, 2007  
Sampled @ Cambridge Brewing Company with Mad_Indian. Pours copper with an avaerage size white head. Aroma of pumpkins and spices. The flavor is slightly sweet, pumpkin, spices, with a slightly water body.




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