 JaBier (1219), Capital City, Ohio, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 1, 2009
22oz bottle. Pours a clear amber with a thin off-white head. Actual pumpkin aroma to go along with the spice, sugar and a bit of tartness. Flavor isn’t short on spice, but it’s not really your typical pumpkin pie spice. In fact, it’s bugging me trying to figure out what it is. Resisting the urge to read other ratings. Anywho, little bit of alcohol on the finish with some pumpkin vegetal quality.
dmac (1449), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 10/20 |
Nov 26, 2009 22 oz bottle from Capone’s. Lets keep this one nice and short.....great looking clear orange body with an average sized foamy off white head. Aroma and flavor are both seriously over spiced and with all spice and cloves as well, two spices I don’t really care for. Seek out Pumking instead.
BBB63 (4229), La Porte, Indiana, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 22, 2009 Bottle and served in Duval snifter: Tasted head to head against the Clipper City The Great Pumpkin:
Clean coppery orangy hue with a frothy head and good lace. Shipyard wins the appearance battle (4-3). The aroma has notes of moderate pumpkin meat, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger snaps and pumpkin nut bread malt. The Clipper City wins the aroma battle by a wide margin. (6-8) Now on towards the make it or break it sense data for all pumpkin brews...
The beer does indeed tastes like pumpkin bread with a nice balance of spice and malt and an added very mild bitterness towards the almost tannic dry back end. Despite a noticed diacetyl component (and honestly the butterscotch notes are not a major flaw in this style), this is much more drinkable than the Clipper City. The points go to Shipyard here (7-5). The mouth feel is slightly lively and chewy, the spice and tannic notes add a dryish back end. The alcohol of a 9% ABV beer is noticed but hardly an issue, I give Shipyard a slight nod here as well (4-3). Overall, I found the Shipyard Pugsley Signature Smashed Pumpkin a more drinkable and balanced beer. I guess I like Pumpkin bread more than Pumpkin Pie... who knew (14).
JoeMcPhee (5000), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 19, 2009 Deep amber pour with a sticky white head. The nose is very, very spicy with lots of spice over a sweet heavy maltiness. There is a lot of clove, allspice and cardamom but at the end it leaves a fairly intense woody/spicy character on the back of the palate. It smells nice, but the execution is pretty flawed. Not a fan of this one.
smashteroid (251), USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Nov 16, 2009 Served cold from bottle. Pours clear amber with a thin off-white head. Aroma of pumpkin, cinnamon, bready malts. Flavor mimics aroma with lots of malty goodness. Fine seasonal.
Tripplebrew (493), Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Nov 15, 2009 Pours a clear copper amber with thick cream-tinged head. Aroma is a strong mixture of yeast and malt with undertones of sugar and spice. Flavor is malts, pumpkin pie-undertones of cinnamon, some vanilla and clovey/nutmegish at the end. Body is light/creamy with medium carbonation. Normally, I do not truly enjoy pumpkin ales solely because they are so syrupy but this has an excellent balance of pumpkin, carbonation and sweetness.
harbuck76 (129), El Cajon, California, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 3/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 15, 2009 22 oz. Pours a light orange with small off white head. Aroma is full of nutmeg,cinnamon and spice. maybe a little clove. Flavor is pumpkin and spice. Medium mouthfeel and a nice warming going down.
WisconsinBeer (521), St Paul, Minnesota, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 12, 2009 Bottle. Thanks to Daknole for the hookup! Pours a clear orange color with minimal head. Flavor is sweet syrupy malts with a heavy dose of pumpkin infusion. Nice German hop towards the end, finishes on a sweet note of pumpkin pie. Alcohol presence lingers in the background. This is a pretty solid pumpkin beer, not bad at all.
Jblauvs (573), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 12, 2009 light orange copper pour Aroma is a solid ale with some caramel malt and overtones of squash, pumpkin seed, nutmeg, cinnamon. Flavor is boozey ginger, twice baked squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, very spicey. Pretty good Pumpkin ale, pleasant Shipyard.
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