Greenport Harbor Leaf Pile Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Greenport Harbor Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Greenport, New York USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Tulip @ RnH with Andy and Tara. Sweet-looking dark apple pour (deep ruby body, bright red hue). Nose is of vapory red fruits, but could be stronger. Palate is fruity - tart cherries, apple, pear, and some faint nuts (peanut?). A tiny bit of spice, but I’d say this is more of a fruit beer, and an awesome one at that. No booze to note. Light, watery mouthfeel, but still full of flavor. Not very sour, just sweet.

Had on tap at rattle n hum. Pours dark. Wonderful dark roasted malt taste with hints of cinnamon. Some pumpkin spices also creep into the taste.

UPDATED: NOV 5, 2012 Digging the deep amber color of this brew. Pumpkin comes through more than the spices with a very mild flavor all around. Great beer, but falls just short of spectacular. Let it warm up just a bit to really shine. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

The brewery poured this for me while I was picking up a 1/2 barrel of the Black Duck Porter. I shared the growler with friends at Bellport Beer and a few customers too. I liked the strong pumpkin-spice taste that was creamy like Cappuccino and the first aromas were very inviting. I couldn’t tell what the abv was, but the medium to light bodied ale was very easy to drink. Having tasted a few other pumpkin ales this week, I was impressed with the quality of this one. It has more of the nutmeg and cinnamon spices to it than most other Pumpkin ales.

Growler fill from Big Z in Huntington. Pours a deep reddish-amber with a small but lingering white head. Aroma is heavy on cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, though pumpkin and malt are also detectable. Taste is a sublime graham cracker/cinnamon characteristic up front, with caramel, allspice, nutmeg, and finally an ever-so-slight pumpkin aftertaste. Beer is smooth, alcohol barely detectable. It’s not the best pumpkin I’ve ever had, but it’s one of the best. A damn good offering and one that leaves me very excited for this new addition to Long Island’s brewing scene.

Tap. Aroma big on the pumpkin and the spices with caramel malt there as well. Flavor again a nice display of the pumpkin flavor, better than most pumpkin ales to me, along with solid pie-spicing, though falls short on the pie-crust aspect. Still, a somewhat different (as different as it can be) and tasty take on the pumpkin.

Growler. Pours an amber body with a scant off white head. Pumpkin pie, light spices. Incense, cinnamon, nutmeg, and light vanilla like notes. Thin and rich. Nicely done guys.

Tap at Against the Grain. Hazy amber pour. Tight white head. The nose is lovely. Softly spicy but with a bit more malt backbone than is typical of the style. Sweet fruit bread/cake with lots of cardamom and allspice character. The sweetness really helps accentuate the warmer spicy notes. Lightly chewy with a bit of rye spiciness as well. Soft and sweet. Quite a lovely pumpkin ale - the spice really pops as it starts to warm up. Tasty stuff.

On tap at the brewery. Pours dark orange with a creamy white head. Aroma of pumpkin, cinnamon, allspice, and gingerbread. On my first sip, my immediate impression was that this was an awesome pumpkin beer--lots of gingersnap, graham cracker, and pumpkin spices. But as the beer warmed and I continued to drink, it got sweeter and stickier with more emphasis on the allspice/pumpkin spices and less emphasis on the graham cracker. So overall, I am not sure what to think of this beer but I suppose that it is one of the better pumpkin ales out there and I would like to try this again and see if my impressions change. 7/4/8/4/14 [3.6/5]

growler at Joes goodbye tasting - caramel malts, light bready and subdued spices. dry grassy and some pepper, light carbonation. not bad, good balance.