Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

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

12oz. bottle, Pours brown golden brown with a hint of orange. Aroma is great. smells like christmas cookies. Taste is a bit of a let down, too light and watery. overall a beer worth trying but nothing special.

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Appearance: It had a honey amber color with very good clarity. The head that was produced was light tan in color, average in size and slowly settled down to a thin covering. Lacing was spotty and it quickly slid down the glass. Smell: The aroma was full of spicy clove, cinnamon and nutmeg. Taste/Mouth feel: It has decent pumpkin flavor up front with a good solid malty body. Hints of sweet brown sugar, pumpkin pie spices and vanilla notes mix in well and add a good, well balanced complexity. It finishes on the sweet side and slowly with mild spicy hops and mild warmth from its 7%abv. The palate has a slick, smooth texture with medium to full body and lively carbonation. Notes: Wow this was good. I really enjoyed the balance of flavor and judicious spicing which gives it a great drinkability.

Bottle->lager glass: Pours a large, fivzzy, off-white head that exhibits spare lacing atop an amber body. Light aroma of hops, along with nutmeg and cinnamon. The body is medium, the texture sticky, and soft carbonation. The flavor’s duration is average. I think this beer gets better farther into the season and I’m not sure whether or not it’s a function of how the beer ages or if it is differences in production. Anyhow, I look forward to this beer.

Dark amber pour with no head. Nicely colored DH label. Very congenial aroma - malty sweet with floral tones. Strong character of this brew fits in with the DH style. It is fully hopped and malty rich, with some enjoyable coffee bitterness in the finish. Some sugar and spice, but not as much as promised. Other raters seemed to notice a lot more than I did. I drank mine on the cold side, so that could account for the difference. There is a slight hint of pumpkin that comes thru in the form of a light vegetal flavor. This is not really much of a pumpkin ale, but it is a rockin’ brown ale, and one of my favorite releases by Dogfish Head.

I just moved and have no pint glasses, so I’m currently drinking this out of the bottle. However, it gives off a nice scent of cinnamon and brown sugar. The taste is of a nutty ale with a nice touch of pumpkin spice and cinnamon. Great beer by a great brewery.

Bottle. Pours clear copper with a big, persistent, creamy off-white head that never completely goes away. Nose is nutmeg and cinnamon, a bit of floral hops underneath. Taste is heavy on the spices - nutmeg and cinnamon, underlying bed of sweet caramel malt with a hint of brown sugar, a wee bit of floral hops underneath to balance. Spices tend to get a bit bigger towards the finish, where a bit of yeast emerges to complement the whole ensemble. Kind of a hard to sort out beer, pumpkin never really comes out so much as the complementary spices do, but it’s always there underneath as well. Mouthfeel is middle of the road - reserved carbonation and a medium body.

Bottle. Pours with a copper color, does not seem like abrown ale to me. Aromas are surprisingly subdued. Perhaps a whiff of allspice and pumpkin. The beer tsrats out tame but then builds up. Most porminent is a gingerbread component together with cinnamon. Not so much pumpkin. When it warms up it becomes more overpowering, but not bad.

copper light head....light sweet pumpkin smell... nice slightly bitter taste with a long lasting effect...