Manzanita Witch’s Hair Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Manzanita Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Santee, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Taster pour at Bev 4 less. Pours an amber color with a a small dissipating white head. Aroma of pumpkins and spices. Taste of roasted pumpkin and mulling spices. Palate was a bit thinner than I would have preferred, carbonation was soft. Finished medium in duration and dry. Overall: A good effort at a pumpkin ale, but it did not knock my socks off.

Clear light reddish with a fizzy white head. Strong earthy pumpkin and sweet spice aroma and taste.

Pours a amber-orange color with very litte head. aroma is of pumkin, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice. taste of pumkin meat, cinamon, cloves, allspiice, carme, and some hop bitternessl. has a medium body with watery mouthfeel and a dry, bitter finnish. overall, a deecent pumkin ale.

You might get mad at my perfect score but when it was available 5 gallons went down very smoothly.not to mention a little too quickly. Did not feel I was eating pie just drinking a great anytime beer. I will be ready with my keg in hand as soon as it returns!

9.5% abv. SD Strong Ale Fest 2010. Orange amber color/ off white head. Nice pumpkin, brown sugar, molasses, cinnamon, fall spice aromas. smooth medium body. Good vegetal raw pumpkin meat, brown sugar sweet flavors with earthy molasses, caramel, mild fall spices.

A: The pour is a murky dark amber-orange color with a slightly off-white head. S: An intensely sweet nose to this beer, almost like melted candy. All spice, clove, and cinnamon are here as well, but there’s a bit of a "turned" nature to them. Almost like the spice container was left out in the Santee sun for about 10 years. T: Mostly pie spices on the flavor, and they are a bit overwhelming. It’s also somewhat chalky and bitter. There’s only a mild malty sweetness, and not really any pumpkin flavor. M: The body is medium with a moderate carbonation and a pretty dry finish. D: This recipe needs some work. Not a very good pumpkin or spiced or whatever you want to call it style beer.

Taster and then a growler fill purchased. I think this might be the best crafted beer they have done. I am a big fan of pumpkin desserts. So it is really easy for me to detect allspice, clove, cinnamon, some sweet roasted pumpkin and maybe a little pepper. A good pumpkin ale! I also tasted the IPA again and something has changed since the first time I had it. More hops? I liked it.

Draft at the brewery. Pours a cloudy orange/light brown, with off-white head. Roasted pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, allspice, clove, and bready malt. On the dry side of pumpkin ales, not very sweet; also it is pretty high in alcohol, I think it was close to 10%, and the abv does come through a little.