Post Road Pumpkin Ale

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

Tap @ Boston University Pub, Boston, MA (Rated 9/06). Pours an orange-copper color with a prominent white head. Aroma is strong pumpkin with small hints of clove, cinnamon, and what appears to be allspice thrown in. Taste is overpowering in pumpkin, which ultimately takes away from the beer. A miss for Brooklyn.

Rated 9/3/06: The temperature is dropping and the fall seasonals have been popping up. Pumpkin Ales are meant to be enjoyed this time of year and this is a rather good offering. Nice full pumpkin aroma with spicy hints of clove and cinnamon. Golden dark copper color with a huge creamy head that ultimately settles and leaves some decent lacing. Mouthfeel is good and crisp, wish it were a bit thicker and creamier though. Flavor has a nice balance, the pumpkin is easily detected but not overdone. Good spiciness of clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon. The aftertaste lingers for a while giving a nice sweet finish. Out of the ordinary and well done I’m sure there are better out there but this one still hits the mark.

you see the label,you drink it. there’s a pretty good beer that has a good pumpkin flavor decently balanced with appropriate spices, good carbonation and mouthfeel. better than one might expect. satisfying bottle of beer. they marry the flavors well. one beer wonder.

On tap at the brewery. Probably the best pumpkin ale I’ve had. Poured copper-colored with a thin white head. Sweet aroma of spices including nutmeg and cinnamon, maybe the faintest hint of cloves? Spicy taste full of pumpkin flavor, very enjoyable. Perfect for those autumn days.

Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of pumpkin, nutmeg, sweet malts, yeast, and some slight floral hops. Flavor starts off with the nutmeg and pumpkin then gives way to the sweet malts, yeast, and floral hops. Doesn’t have too much of an aftertaste but it’s mostly the nutmeg and pumpkin. A decent brew even though I’m not really a big fan of pumpkin ales.

This is my favorit pumpkin ale. Many pumpkin ales are too sweet or taste too strongly of pumkin spice. This one is nicely balanced. It tastes like a beer (a relatively good beer), but you can tell that there is a bit of pumpkin pie, some cloves, and maybe even some nutmeg in there. When you smell it there is just a hint of pumpkin spice. The taste is also relatively crisp, so you don’t get a lot of aftertaste. While a pumpkin beer isn’t something you want to drink every day, this one sure does hit the spot in the autumn months. My rating may be higher than it deserves for that reason alone.

a better than average autumn seasonal. pumpkin flavor is faint, also detected typical spices, cinnamon, some ginger...there are both better and much worse pumpkin beer attempts out there, try it out.

Bottle. Transparent orange pour with a white head. Like most pumpkin brews there’s an overwhelming amount of clove and cinnamon with some pumpkin as well and not a whole lot else. The flavors are similar with the spices standing out with nothing under it to support it. Spicy mouthfeel...undercarbonated with a dry finish.