Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

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

Bottle, Pours to a clearish-copper with a one finger, white head. Nose is malts, banana, nutmeg and the season of Fall. Really. Taste is malty pumpkin with a thin spice finish. This is a fairly watery product for the folks at DFH. It’s worth having a few times, but nothing to hoard.

[1924-20081222] 12floz bottle. Roasted banana pumpkin aroma has sweet bready yeast leaf notes. Clear, dark orange amber brown body with a quick foamy white head. Flavour continues with a bit of bready pumpkin, slightly burnt, and some allspice and banana. Medium-full body is a little boozy. Not a great pumpkin but not bad.
(c/o GregClow, w/ him, jerc)

Bottle that Hophead22 left @ my place after the fish taco throwdown.. Thanks Tim... Aroma is very nice smell of what else but pumpkins. The pumpkin smell is not too sweet which I like....Appearances is amber with one finger head that dissapears to nothing.... Flavor is pumpkin’y with spices. very tasty and pretty easy to drink... Thank you Tim and thank you DFH for this tasty pumpkin brew!!!

Spicey! not as sweet at other pumpkin ales, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Pounded some of these with pampdogg.

Bottle - Pours deep amber with a big, frothy head. Smells of pumpin pie with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice--all the requisite spices. The taste is unexpected--tastes like a Belgian ale. There’s dough, yeast, spice...I can’t taste any pumpkin at all. There’s a little sweet malt and hops to balance it all out at the end, but what’s the point of calling this Punkin if there isn’t actually any pumpkin?

Location: Wanted to update this rating, so I picked up a bottle at Gilly’s and drank it 9/20/09

Aroma: Nice pumpkin spice aroma, not quite as nice as I remembered, some brown sugar and yeast too
Appearance: Pours a clear copper-orange color with a thin white head
Flavor: Similar to the nose, quite a bit of spice up-front, has a really nice pumpkin flavor, and a yeasty, sweet malt finish
Palate: Nice mouthfell, some fizziness is present, medium body
Overall Impression: I think this is a pretty good pumpkin beer, one of the better ones. As fall comes around again, I realize that this is a style that I really seem to enjoy quite a bit, especially on an early fall evening complete with football and beer. Every year, DFH does a very nice job of achieving what I had hoped for with this brew. I can see why I had previously mentioned a little too strong a pumpkin flavor, but I’m really liking that flavor this time, and not bothered at all by its strength.

Old rating: (Was a 3.3)
Had this one many times.
Overall Impression: Dogfish doesn’t make any bad beers that I’ve tried. This one’s good again, a little too strong of a pumpkin flavor, and a nice taste to it.

Bottle: Poured a hazy orange amber with white head. Aroma is strong with pumpkin and spice mainly nutmeg. Taste is spicey with nutmeg and pumpkin, finish is a slight metallic.

raisin, vanilla, amber, hazy, frothy, heavy cloying sweetness, lightly bitter, average carbonation,