Scotch Irish Perry’s Atomic Punkin

Formerly brewed at Heritage Brewing Limited
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Carleton Place, Canada

Cask. At Volo Casks Days ’07. Hazy orange-copper pour, average head. Aroma of caramel malt and fresh pumpkin, always nice to smell a pumpkin beer that isn’t just pie spices ... also had mild cinnamon/nutmeg spiciness and some dry hops ... smelled like a "Belgian" yeast, but what do I know about that stuff? The taste was simpler than the aroma, more bitter, pungent spice, less of the vegetalbe pumpkin character, had a nice herbal finish. I found the body quite thick, not much carbonation but who cares - and a long pungent dry spicy finish. Very very good, it paled a little as I’d had the Southern Tier Pumking the day before, but better than the other Ontario Pumpkins, that’s for sure.

A bitter and non-descript green vegetable smell. Volo Cask Days 2007. A light brown pumpkin cloudy colour. Vegetable taste, and not V-8 juice.

On Cask at Volo , Canada
Appearance :Fine haze , rose copper with bubbly ring 2+
Nose : Sweet bread with plenty of “Belgian” spice, clove backed by mashed pumpkin.6+.
Flavour/Palate :Soft oily body , pumpkin seed , soapy finish with green raw hops. Quiet fruity (pumpkin) with some smoky malt at finish.

Amber brown body, headless. Strongly spicey aroma, hints of root beer and a peat like substance, one spice in particular that I can not identify. (7+) Carries over to the flavour with lots of spice and only mild pumpkin. Nice but it becomes overwhelming after a while. Full bodied for a cask but a bit under carbonated.

Cask at ’Volo Cask Days ’07’. Pours a cloudy orange-amber with a spare diminishing off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt, pumpkin and spices. Flavour seems a little boozy which is odd for a 6% beer. Sweet malt, spices and a somewhat bitter finish. Good body for the style. Just O.K.

Volo Cask Days 2007 Spicey pumpkin filling nose, hazy, brownish/orange. Flavour is pumpkin all the way(were many pumpkin pies pureed for this?) Medium bodied, very well balanced, spicey, great mouthfeel, a lavish texture. Terrific! Well done again Perry!

At Volo cask Days 2007. Brown, a few bubbles in the head. Good malt, spice, alcohol aroma. Taste is a little syrupy sweet - there is pumpkin and spices here, but I think they would have been better served maybe at 5%? I dunno, for 6% , i found it boozy for some reason. Anyway, I enjoyed it, and am thankful Perry continues to cater to us beer folks by brewing up these interesting one-off’s.

[764-20071020] Cask @ Volo Cask Days 2007 (Toronto, ON). Super ginger aroma with atomic oxo cubes. Slightly hazy, amber brown body with no head. Spicy nutmeg and ginger flavour has a bit of bread crust. Medium-full body is smooth. Better cold, reminds me of a pumpkin pie-like mix.