Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Milton, Delaware USA

Kind of a golden-y lager color. I haven’t had too many pumpkin ales, but I suppose I expected more "pumpkin" flavor. Some nice spice flavors come through but not much in the aroma department. Pretty decent brown ale.

Pours an orange amber with small white head that lasts a little while. The aroma is faint pumpkin, sweet malt, and light spices. The flavor is similar, but also has a dry finish that I didn’t like. Too sweet and too dry for my tastes.

FIRST OFF THIS WAS ONE OF THE FIRST DOGFISH BREWS I EVER DRANK AND IT WAS QUITE SOME TIME AGO, MY MEMORY TELLS ME THAT IT WAS AWESOME , HOWEVER AFTER HAVING A FEW OTHER PUMPKIN ALES FROM DIFFERENT BREWERS SINCE IVE GROWN SICK OF THE STYLE AND NEVER FOUND ONE I REALLY ENJOYED . NOW THAT ITS IN SEASON I GRABED A PACK AND HERES MY THOUGHTS, THIS BEER IS PROBABLY BETTER THAN I REMEMBERED IT TO BE, THE DIFFERENCE THAT THE BREWERY MADE FROM OTHER PUMPKIN ALES IS, THE ROASTING OF THE PUMPKINS, WHICH BRINGS OUT THE SWEETNESS OF THE FRUIT WONDERFULLY AND THE AMOUNT OF SPICES IN THIS BEER ARE PERFECT THE CINNAMON AND NUTMEG COMPLIMANTE THE PUMPKIN TO CREATE AN AMAZING FLAVOR, THIS BEER IS NO DOUBT THE MICHEAL JORDAN OF PUMPKIN ALE’S..

Aroma of pumpkin pie, cinnamon, and other spices, reminded me of a fresh baked pumpkin pie. Flavor was dominated by cinnamon and not much pumpkin. Overall, great version of this style.

Tap @ Isaac Newton’s. Orange pour. Could smell the sweet pumpkin, cinnamon, and spices in the aroma without trying. Flavor isn’t as sweet as the aroma would have you guess, spices take over flavor.

Aroma of cinnamon and nutmeg, faint pumpkin. Appearance is orangish with creamy head. Flavor like the aroma, not enough pumpkin flavor, too much alcohol in the finish. Palate was creamy. Just kinda alright.

Pours a brilliant shade of pumpkin pie with what starts out as a fairly large fluffy light tan head that quickly dissipates into just a thin ring around the edge of the glass. The nose is very pumpkin pie like with notes of pumpkin, nutmeg, and lots of cinnamon. Flavors are somewhat spicy with adequate hopping and a sweet background. The body is fairly medium-full for the style, which i like...and the alcohol level gives the beer some depth you don’t usually find in pumpkin beers. All in all, i quite like it, but at $10 for a 4 pack, it’s kind of stupid expensive.

Pumpkin Beers, I like the way they smell... I can’t go to far into the taste here. Punkin Ale look, tastes, drinks, feel like a very mundane medium ale. The aroma of this beer is great, with those pumkpin pie spices, but other than a little vegetable flavor the aroma does not transfer into the beer. I can’t ’crush it’ because as pumpkin beers go this was solid, but not something I would drink again.