Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

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

Pours a clear amber with a minimal head... Aroma of faint alcohol, nutmeg, allspice and cherry??? Not very pumpkiny, more spicy than anything, nutmeg, allspice clove, not hoppy.... Medium full bodied, lingering dryness, not severely dry, not sweet, good mouthfeel...

A clear amber colored beer, with a beige head. It disappears quickly. The aroma od spices with pumkin and nutmeg. The taste is sweet, from brown sugar. There are spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. In the back dry. The aftertaste has some bitterness with spices.

Pours light brown , with a med white head. Love the flavor of nutmag, cinnamon, and PUNKIN. This is one of the better punkin ale that i have had. I have drank alot of these beers this year good stuff.

Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of grain, toasted and caramel, herbs for the hops, light leather note for the yeast and background notes of wood and brown sugar. Head is small, frothy, slightly off-white with fair lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is sparkling clear orange/amber. Flavor starts lightly to moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes lightly sweet and acidic and moderately bitter. Palate is on the lighter side of medium, watery with a lively carbonation. Probably because I didn’t get a big hit of pumpkin is the reason I really did like this.

A hazy reddish brown ale with a thick off white head. An aroma of sweet vanilla fudge and pumpkin pie spices, very nice and subdued. In mouth, a hoppier interpretation, with loads of sweet vanilla malt, cloves, ginger, and nice hops lingering on, oily mouthfeel, quite pleasant.

I enjoy this beer. Had it on tap at the Grey Lodge and bottle, and either way is excellent. Smooth and flavorful, with a hint of spice.

Stubbie. Light brown in colour with spice and chocolate aroma. Flavour is spice with some good malt flavour to. There was no real pumpkin flavour to this beer, so I’m not sure what the pumpkin is supposed to add to it. A curious beer for sure, but not one I would drink again.

12 oz. bottle poured a coppery color with frail, dense, off-white head which left no lacing as it melted. Stable, creamy aroma of pumpkin, allspice and nutmeg. Thin body. Flavor of pumpkin, malt and cinnamon with a clove finish and aftertaste of alcohol. I liked this beer more than I had anticipated. It is one of the few pumpkin ales in which I can actually taste pumpkin in addition to the spices. However, I don’t feel that the alcohol was masked effectively and I was hoping for a richer, thicker, more "brown ale" feel overall instead of the watery "macro-micro" feel. I still feel that, as with most of the DFH beers, this one is over-priced and over-hyped. I will say though, in all fairness, that DFH onion rings are the bomb!