Empire Pumpkin Ale

Formerly brewed at Empire Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Syracuse, New York USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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2002 vintage on draft: This is one of my favorite beers from Empire. Of course I’m biased because I used to work for them. Great aroma of pumpkin and spice, reminds me of pumpkin pie. Tastes very similar to pumpkin pie, nice light spice, cloves, very drinkable. Great fall beer, though not always as good every year. Too bad they stopped making it and later went out of business.

Nice pumpkiny flavor but not as spicy as McAuslan's pumpkin. It was good, but would have been even better with a bit more of the pumpkin pie spices.

UPDATED: SEP 17, 2004 I think this is my favorite of their seasonal beers. Problem is, they dont always get it right when they brew it. Ive had some batches that were incredible and others that were just mediocre. A very subtle pumpkin taste that tastes fresh. No heavy malty/spiciness to complicate things, just a good amber ale with some good pumpkin flavor for the holidays.

An interesting beer. I had this a while ago, it had a flavor of pumpkin with a small hint of clove. A good beer to go with a hearty meal.