Cape Ann Fishermans Pumpkin Stout

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Pours a deep black with a medium bubbly/creamy tan head. Aroma of pumpkin pie spices, vanilla, pie crust, pumpkin and hints of chocolate. Flavor of bitter chocolate, pumpkin pie spices and a nice toasty balance.

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.

The stout pours dark chestnut brown with a dark tan head. The aroma is delicious light sweet pumpkin, not roasted malts as expected. The flavor sweet malts, spices, and a very light blend of subtle roasted malts and earthy pumpkin. The body is more ale than stout unfortunately.

I poured a 12oz bottle into a stout glass.

Appearance: Typical stout cosmetic features of opaque black body, a large, khaki-colored frothy head which retains well but doesn’t lace.

Smell: Mild pumpkin ale aroma of cinnamon, nutmeg and pumpkin. Slightly sweet dairy-like scents often found in a milk stout as well.

Taste: Fisherman’s Pumpkin Stout is one of those beers that walks the tightrope off being a genuine, unique brew and a novelty act. It wouldn’t seem that pumpkin and stout would work, but they definitely do in the case of this beer. But that’s not to say it’s anything spectacular.

The palate begins with two distinct stages: the first is by-the-book pumpkin ale with light spices and a gentle sweetness. It’s definitely in the pumpkin potpourri style of beer, not the liquid pumpkin pie type. The second half by-the-book stout - a milky, velvety taste and texture with a quick burst of roasted malts and bitterness. But as I drink on the two halves homogenize into one and create for a pub-style stout with subtle pumpkin potpourri flavors. Not that this is bad, but when you combine two otherwise mild palates you end up with one big mild palate. So there’s some uniqueness to it, obviously, but there’s just not enough flavor to garner anything more than a simple "pass" from me.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied, tepid, soft, milky texture. Mild dry aftertaste.

Drinkability: I had no idea that Fisherman’s Pumpkin Stout was 7% ABV while I was drinking it (I hate it when brewers don’t put it on the bottle). From the mild palate and complete lack of alcohol presence I assumed it was closer to 4 or 5%. So in one aspect this beer should get extra accolades from me for masking its alcohol so well. But on the other hand, with so much potential energy it doesn’t seem to capitalize on it