Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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UPDATED: DEC 14, 2008 [bottle - 12 oz] Clear amber/red color with a nice fluffy head. Nice aroma of cinnamon, nutmeg and pumpkin pie spice. The flavor is lots of spices mixed with a little bit of pumpkin and some warming alcohol notes. Lots of cinnamon and allspice in the beginning with a sweet touch of brown sugar mixed with the alcohol in the end. Tasty and warming.

12 ounce bottle pours a light amber color, aroma of caramel, nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon. Flavor follows the aroma, little sweet aftertaste, decent beer overall

from Mondial de la Bière 2011, Strasbourg - quite clear reddish-amber with a persistent beige foam; a fair aroma of pumpkin and brown sugar; full-bodied and gently sticky; pretty sweet with a late moderate tartness; long notes of pumpkin along some residual sugars in the finish

Pours a light brown color with a two finger thick fluffy head. Feint aroma of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg. Taste follows the nose but intensified. Smooth easy drinking, slightly sweet but not too much. Great beer, something I will look toward to this time of the year

A - Pours a cloudy brown-orange with a thin finger of frothy off-white head. The head fades down fairly quickly leaving behind some lace. S - Aroma is a mix of pumpkin, pumpkin pie spices, including cinnamon and nutmeg, brown sugar, with some sweet caramel malts. T - Starts off with a mix of sweet caramel malts with some pumpkin flavor, pumpkin pie spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, and some sweet brown sugar. Through the middle, some stronger pumpkin flavor comes through with some more brown sugar and spices. The finish is a mix of sweet brown sugar, pumpkin pie spices, and a bit of sweet bready caramel malts and a touch of dark fruit. M - Medium-plus bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth with a sweet and spicy finish. D - Very drinkable. Nice bold pumpkin ale. The beer is fairly spice forward, but the overall balance is nice and there is still a good amount of pumpkin mixed in.

Originally reviewed: 10/17/08. Picked this up with a ’make your own sixer’ from Total Wine. Pours a deep copper color with a very small head. Minimal retention and minimal lacing. I’m pretty disappointed. Smells of nutmeg, pumpkin, fresh-baked bread. Mmmm. This beer is pumpkin pie in a bottle. Great taste of pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, with a finish of molasses. This tastes like Thanksgiving. I like it. This is more watery than I would like. Feels a little thin. I was expecting a bit more robustness. Having said that, it is still quite drinkable, even given the higher alcohol. I like this.

From notes. Pours a nice amber with a thin white head that doesn’t stick around long but leaves a nice lacing. Spicey aroma, nutmeg, allspice, clove, sugar, Pumkin, cinnamon, and a bit of toasty malt. A bit more Pumkin in the flavor, lots of cinnamon, brown sugar and nutmeg. Nice malty backbone. Great mouthfeel, the best part of this beer for me. The flavors really coat the whole mouth, nice warming finish. Pretty full body, and a clean finish.

From notes. First reviewed 10/16/2011. Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass. Punkin ale does its best to look like a pumpkin, coming out of the bottle with a copper amber hue, mostly transparent with a small, fast-fading eggshell head. The aroma has everything that was advertised. In order of dominance, I get cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin, and all spice with light grain notes in the background. The flavor starts a little bit sweet, with some vanilla cream and cereal grain malts. Cinnamon and nutmeg start the spiciness, with pumpkin and allspice provide a lot of the driving flavor toward the middle and end. There is a light spciy bitterness at the end, but it barely interferes with the mostly clean finish. Despite being light colored and transparent, this body has some depth to it. On the full side, it is almost chewy. The carbonation is understated and lightly crisp, and there is almost no residue of any kind left afterward. This was an easy to drink pumpkin beer. With a full body and full character, this is a nice fall sipper.

Slightly hazy bronzed goldish colour with a film of off-white head. Not the first prize winner for appearance, but it could be worse. I’ve had to give this beer a bit of serious warming in order to do it justice (my fault for not taking it out of the fridge an hour ago). As it warms there is already a pervasive aroma of baked pumpkin and nutmeg. If this is what it is like when it is too cold, then there is significant promise as to when it warms up. The cinnamon alluded to on the label starts to make itself known in time... there really is nothing to this reviewing stuff: just look at the label. The same applies to taste: just everything there is to like about savoury pumpkin pie in a beer. Tasty and plenty of carbonation and fizzy mouthfeel. I’ve never heard of pumpkin sherbet before, but I’m sure this is what it would taste like.

had on tap at Winking Lizard in Cleveland Heights, here are my notes from that night a: amber color with thin off white head, reduces into slight lacing s: pumpkin, spice and malt t: sweet malt dominates, pumpkin flavor and spice follow nicely m&d: light to medium body, lots of carbonation. A very drinkable beer despite slightly high ABV.

Clear orange/brown, virtually no head, and no lace. Smell is nutmeg, sweet rich malt, some pumpkin, rich malt, some cinnamon. Taste is sweet malt, lots of spice, little bit of pumpkin and a little alcohol. Mouthfeel is smooth and medium bodied