Olde Stone Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Olde Stone Brewing
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Peterborough, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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This porter, or any another produced here, could probably be considered this brew pub’s signature. A very good offering, with a balanced dark malt, no carbonation, and pure flavour. Nutty, and with heaven smattering of coffee, this is a very smooth gem Peterborough can take pride in.

Sampled at the brewpub, amber color, with a thick beige head, mild toasted, bready, caramel malt, spicy nose of allspice, with a faint caramelized pumpkin fruity note, with a hint of nuttiness in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a fruity, spicy character of all spice, with a gingerbread, nutmeg, cookie flavour upfront with some toasted, biscuity, caramel malt backbone, leading towards a fruity, biscuity malt, ginger spiciness, lingering leafy hop bitterness finish.

At the brewpub. Dark orange/brown, very little head. Pleasing pumpkin spice aroma. Taste is nice. Medium body (their ESB base?), lots of pumpkin spice in taste. Not much else to say - full falvoured yet simple, good offering.

4oz sample from brewpub. Rich orange colour, with a sparse whitehead. A bit of spice in the aroma. Not much distincitve pumpkin taste to this one, and actually more similar to their bitter. Not what I was expecting, but still good.

(Disclaimer: I really don’t know what pumpkin tastes like!) A pint at the pub. Aroma is caramel, and a little spice. Flavour is sweet, a little malty. Something a little fruity/spicy in there which, I suppose, must be the pumpkin. Kinda like a best bitter. With pumpkin, I guess. Not bad, but I probably won’t get it again. They have others that are better.

Light orange-amber in colour. Aroma was sweet, wheaty, slightly sweet. Flavour of pumpkin, sugar, wheat. Finishes with a medium bitterness.