Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

On tap @ Dogfish Alehouse Falls Church. Clear amber with a small off white head. Pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice aroma. Flavor is about the same, lots of sweet pumpkin flavors with some hop bitterness thrown in, no detectable alcohol taste. Medium body with mild carbonation and a soft thick mouth feel. Pretty good as far as pumpkin beers go.

Poured amber/brown with a white head that slowly dissipated. Smells and tastes of pumpkin, nutmeg and cinnamon. Delicious, but somewhat overpriced at just over $10 for a 4-pack.

Looks exactly like a pumpkin when poured, it is orange with dark brown hints throughout and holds onto an off-white head for a little bit. The smell is quite nice and includes hints of cinnamon, apple spice, and a dash of pumpkin. The taste is a little lacking for my liking since I always enjoy a nice strong beer with a kick. It is somewhat watery and tastes like a good light ale with a hint of pumpkin spice and cinnamon.

This beer poured a nice amber color with an orange hint that reminded me of pumpkins. It was pretty transparent and had a nice head that collapsed to a fizzy film. It smelled of...SURPRISE!...pumpkins. It also had a nice little spice from the nutmeg and auxiliary spices in the beer. It was also slightly sweet from the brown sugar in the brew. It had a very classis lager taste with a pumpkin aftertaste that lingered quite nicely for a while. It also had a slight tinge of spicy and sweet. The texture was very fizzy - it had nice carbonation to it. It was rather smooth and easily downable. It had a very nice flow of flavors from lager, to all the subingredients, to the pumpkin.

Pours clear, pumpkin orange, with a lasting medium cream-colored head, very fine lacing. Spicy aroma, pumpkin, toast, caramel, with some earthy and grassy notes. Medium body, velvety and crisp. Not very sweet, herbal and pumpkin notes dominate the flavor, allspice and nutmeg come through pretty clearly, with some lingering vegetable gourd, grass and earth flavors. Mild bitter finish. Even though it’s not syrupy, it would still be hard to drink very much, due to the strength of the flavors. Cheers to the guys at Dogsfish Head for giving pumpkin ale some style.

BOTTLE: orange/reddish pour, appearance is a little fizzy. Aroma of mild pumpkin, nutmeg, brown sugar, taste is similar. Nothing over the top, but tasty.

I have drank so many of these puppies over the last several weeks! We recently visited the brewpub in Rehobeth Beach and got to sample many brews! This little going concern knows how to brew beer! I love what they are accomplishing! Medium golden color; not too spicy (a drawback for me when it comes to pumpkin ales) - great mouthfeel, well balanced! Good stuff!

12 oz. bottle. I had this, surprisingly at a sports bar in the area - not something I expected to get...I was envisioning some lovely swill to accompany my evening...but alas! I was delighted to find out that they had Dogfish Head and on special none the less! So what’s really important here, the beer of course, not the bar! It had a very nice amber color, although not quite as dark as I would have expected from a pumpkin beer. It had a lovely aroma of spice, malt, and light on the pumpkin. Generally speaking, I felt this beer had a very light taste, however as I sat with it a bit longer, the spice - it’s crowning glory shown through quite nicely. This beer had a very light mouth feel, and was a nice accompaniment for my meal. Nice for the season, I saw it on sale at a local store and will probably pick some up to stash.