Cape Ann Fishermans Pumpkin Stout

Brewed by Cape Ann Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Gloucester, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

12oz bottle from Premier Gourmet. Opaque black with a large fluffy/foamy tan lasting head. Mmmmmm - deep roast and pumpkin spicing - that’s lovely! Taste is a bit weird - same as aroma, but some bacon and ... campfire - not much alcohol. Average body, some astringency from the dry spice, subtle finish. I liked this a lot - and nice that it’s in a small bottle.

Bottle, winter beer tasting. Pours opaque black, sour-rotten nose, milk in the mouth, sour and weird. sweet and short finish. Love stout, love pumpkin, but the two didn’t mix well.

An average pumpkin beer which lacks the thick creamy palate that the imperial version has. Taste is pleasent and spicy with notes of chocolate and lactosey? sweetness.

12 oz, dry and bittery roasted. Some pumpkin flavors and spices but the roasted malts really take over. I remember this having a lot more body. Oh well.

Bottle at a winter beers tasting at Norma Jean. Very dark brown to black with a beige head. Sweet and sour aroma with a bit of pumpkin, spiciness, a bit of smoky notes, light roastiness, milky notes and other weird stuff. Sweetish flavor with light roastiness, sweet spiciness and a drier finish. Medium-bodied. Pretty weird.

oh man was this good, stout like with delicous pumpkin spice, why isnt this more common, a sweet stout with pumpkin? could have it everyday and not get sick of it.

Aroma is more pumpkin than stout, with a little cinnamon and yeast. Flavor starts like a typical stout with malt and a little chocolate. Nice, creamy mouthfeel, and pumpkin and spice come back in the finish. This is the way seasonals should be--really good, solid base beer with something a little different thrown in.

Pours a two-fingered light cream head that fades quickly to a ring leaving some lace. Black color, no highlights. Medium carbonation and medium-heavy bodied. Light chocolate/pumpkin nose and flavor is almost sweet pumpkin and chocolate. $2.25 for a 12oz bottle from Julio’s Liquors Westborough, Ma.