 nickd717 (788), Palo Alto, California, USA
May 21, 2009 Bottle. Clear amber with a white head. Aroma of pumpkin, spices, and sweet malt. Flavor is the same, nice pumpkin but lacks a little balance. Dry finish with high carbonation. Middle-of-the-road pumpkin ale.
ben4321 (562), Rockville, Maryland, USA
May 13, 2009 August 2008 Beer of the Month Club
(Rating is from 10/6/08)
Overall Impression:
Pretty Standard Pumpkin, you’ve had it before. Better then a Jack’s or a Blue Moon certainly, but nothing special.
SpudClampDawg (1006), Jasper, Indiana, USA
May 4, 2009 12oz bottle: Reddish gold pour with a fantastic pillow top head that laces all the way down. Looks like an autumn beer to me. The nose lots in the spice department - cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice immediately come to mind. Some deeper whiffs reveal ginger, white pepper and lemon zest. An interesting mix. The body adds a nice caramel malt sweetness to the mix, but could be a bit beefier to stand up to the heavy spices. Dries nicely on the tongue, almost becoming a bit chalky. Good.
jcr (1027), Jasper, Indiana, USA
Mar 3, 2009 Bottle. Clear amber body with short, off-white head, mostly diminishing. Spicy nose of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove with hints of caramel and malt. The flavor is lightly to moderately sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes like a lightly spiced pumpkin pie. It finishes lightly sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body , watery texture and lively carbonation. Clean, crisp.
jvmiller (471), Bel Air, Maryland, USA
Feb 15, 2009 Not bad spices. Certainly not weak in that respect, but the body was weak and insubstantial, just watery on the finish and kind of dry/bland. But the pumpkin/cinnamon/nutmeg character was there and not too shabby.
probstk (851), Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Feb 11, 2009 12 fl. oz. bottle from LCBO, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. DE16/08.
App.: Clear deep amber with a smallish white head.
Aroma: Lots of ginger and clove, some molasses, like a spice cookie, some caramel and sweet malts, slightly buttery, butterscotch (diacetyl?).
Palate: Medium body and carbonation.
Flav.: Like the nose but slightly less spice, less malt, slightly more butter; dry (seems like it should be sweeter), basically no bitterness.
Fair for the style I guess.
bconley (299), Fern Park, Florida, USA
Feb 11, 2009 dchmela gave this to me at the Superbowl party. Not bad. Orange color (imagine that). Felt like a carbonated soda. Nice allspice and pumpkin aroma. Cool cinnamon and sugar hints in the taste.
daknole (2143), Plantation, Florida, USA
Feb 8, 2009 Bottle from my cousin Sam. Orangish color with an almost white head. Aroma is full of pumpkin pie. Flavor is also loaded with pumpkin pie flavors but has some lemon notes and a tiny bit of bitterness. Good pumpkin beer.
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