Selins Grove Pumpkin Ale

Nitro tap @ Brewpub. we made a special trip just to try this and it was well worth it, not as good as southern tier’s pumking, but still great.. amber body with great creamy head... aroma of pumpkin and vanilla... body is very creamy and smooth, light... low alcohol content... overall very tasty and easy to drink.. well balanced spices and pumpkin flavor

Nitro tap @ brewpub. Not many beers live up to the hype, including 3 hours of driving excitement, but this is by far the best pumpkin beer I have ever had. Dark golden pour with some white head. Pumpkin spices, cinnamon, vanilla, this was delicious and smelled just as nice. Mostly the fact it is only 5 percent and still has a great full bodied texture and flavor is what kills it.

Draft at Selins Grove Brewpub. Pours an amber body with a creamy vanilla head. Huge lush cinnamon notes, like smelling a cinnamon shaker. Pumpkin pie, and vanilla nitrogenous like notes. Creamy whip body with a beautiful cinnamon spiced accent. This beer is phenomenal, it completely blew me away, at 5% per the menu, i couldn’t believe the body that this one had. I had to have myself another and if the brewpub didn’t close at midnight boy i would have been in trouble. Its very rare to find so much quality flavor with such a full body and yet have so little alcohol influence. Absolutely 100% the best beer i’ve had in this style. This blows away any other pumpkin beer i’ve had to date by a landslide. So so so good!

On tap at the brewpub on 10/25/08: Pours a hazy dark copper amber with a dense, creamy light tan head. Aroma of sweet cinnamon and chewy pumpkin flesh with a hint of roasty character. Body starts with good fullness and juicy pumpkin flavor with a nice nutmeg and cinnamon spice balance before a slightly drier doughy finish. A very tasty and well-balanced complex pumpkin brew with great drinkability.

Nitro pour at Selins Grove. Cloudy copper orange color with a fluffy nitro head that lasts. Aroma of pumpkin and pumpkin pie spices with some yeast and breadyness. Taste is smooth and sweet with a lot of spice and crust. Definitely creamy and delicious and one of the most interesting pumpkin beers I have had.

Nitro pour at Selins Grove. Pours a murky hazy woody orange with a thick nice fluffy tight nitro head and great lace. Aroma is your typical pumpkin pie spice, a bit of creamy wheat, toasted malts, light smooth sweet crystal and carapils malt- nutmeg and some clove as it warms. Flavor is doughy smooth light yeastiness, toffee, and lots of all spice pumpkin pie spice with some whipped cream smooth light sweetness. Smooth creamy mouthfeel and a nice overall beer especially for a pumpkin beer but I heard people saying it just wasn’t as good as it was last year. It was really good but just not mind blowing like I had thought it would be.

Nitro on a sampler platter. Great overall pumpkin ale, tough to beat. Smells strongly of cinnamon and nutmeg, looks like a pumpkin pie filling color in a glass. Tart and spicy on the tongue, lacking the sweetness that ruins many pumpkin ales. Nutmeg tones remain after the cinnamon fades from the palate. Smooth and satisfying.

On nitro at the brewpub. I have been wanting to try this beer for a while now, but haven’t been able to arrange to get there at the right time of year. We stopped by for lunch on our way to Hershey and I was not dsiappointed. Pours a hazy orange with a thin-moderate dense, creamy, linen white head that lasted until the end and left ample lace throughout. Very pleasant aroma of pumpkin pie spice including cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. Some pumkpin in there as well, but the aroma is more influenced by the spice than the pumpkin. The flavor is very similar with the same pumpkin pie spices as the aroma. The mouthfeel, aided by the nitrogen push, is silky and creamy and suits this beer extremely well. This might just be my favorite pumpkin beer this year.