Post Road Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Brooklyn, New York USA

Warm spicy aroma of nutmeg reminiscent of fall. Pours a beautiful burnt seinna/copper color, very much what I had hoped for in tasting my first pumpkin beer. Thin but carbonated mouthfeel, initially bready taste followed in middle palate with earthy, yeasty tones to finish with mild hoppy cinnamon notes. All in all a nice experience for my first foray into a pumpkin beer - good enough to keep trying them, but could have been a bit heavier for me in keeping with fall and cooler weather.

Appearance: Pours a bright, cheery copper body with a lush, eggshell-colored head. Smell: A fairly bland aroma, with only a minimal amount of pumpkin and spices. Taste: Light, sweet bready maltiness with an all too mild pumpkin flavor. The spices surface just before the dry, lightly bitter finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: After finishing the entire bottle, it’s hard not to come down with a small case of hurt feelings, especially if you don’t have a rich, delicious Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale to follow it up with.

The aroma is a bit odd but I do detect pumpkins and spice (nutmeg). There is also caramel, biscuits, and yeast. The appearance is amber with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall I like this quite well.

The intial aroma smells a bit funky with an almost bathroom smell. The aroma looks great with a sharp Amber color with red overtones. tastes pretty well with some pumpkin in the background. The rest works pretty well.

Tastes like a brooklyn octoberfest with a little more pumkin taste. Amber color with not a lot of head.

Date: 11/03/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta

clear dark yellow, thin head, sweet cinnamon aroma, thin body, sweet malt flavor, nice touch of spices with cinnamon being the dominant player, slight bitterness from the spices in the finish,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 4/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

I enjoy the smell of this pumpkin ale! It is very aromatic. I actually smelled the beer without having to put my nose up to it. I can smell the sweet nutmeg and cinnamon. I also smell the sweet smell of autumn pumpkins in the beer! What a relaxing aroma considering, fall and winter are my favorite seasons. As the beer warms the cinnamon really starts to pop, and the spicy characters really come out at your nose. A nice amberish/orange color. The beer is transparent, and looks decent. I must comment on the head. The head has yet to fade away. I have not tried my beer but the head is nice and creamy looking, and is just very thin and sits on the top of my beer. The cinnamon flavors come through at the beginning and mix in with the pumpkin flavor, but the beer should be creamier and thicker if you ask me. Why is this beer so thin. I feel that it needs a body to carry along that great spice and pumpking aroma. A thin pilsner and/or lager palate. The spices don’t touch my tongue as I though they would they hit the very back of my throat. The beer is just way too thin to have this great aroma and flavor move around your mouth. Great aroma, appearance, but the flavor and palate are directly related in this beer, and unfortunately they both didn’t meet up to par. I enjoy this pumpkin ale, but a time try is good enough for me.

I think this is my first road post. Flighty airy spice aroma. Light iced tea look. Creamy off white head. Good carbonation. Building processed metallic industrial bitterness on the back of the palate. Veggie and spice flavorers make this unique beer feel quite malty.