Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale

Decent pumpkin ale. I had it the same weekend as the Blue Moon Pumpkin and Shipyard Pumpkinhead and liked this best. It is a nice ale with just a hint of that pumpkin pie aftertaste.

Pretty standard pumpkin ale. I guess I was expecting more from this brewery

12 oz bottle. Clear honey brown with a thin white head that leaves big lace splotches. Cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg; light sour pie. Tart tomatillos and carrots. Hints of pumpkin. Bitter spices remain. Still waiting to find a pumpkin ale that doesn’t collapse in the aftertaste.

Pours into a nice, fluffy head which slowly dissipates. Not very leggy. Color is similar to honey. Hints of nutmeg as it finishes. Not too rough on the palate as it goes down. Overall, a nice seasonal.

12oz Really nice spiced squash and pumpkin nose - fresh and a little sweet and sugary. Frothy and thick for a pumpkin beer, with sweet squash and husky, nutmeg, green fruit and vegetables. Really nice example, one of the better pumpkin beers out there.

Orange in colour, thin dissipating off-white coloured head, some light lacing. The aroma has large amounts of pumpkin, some hops, lightly sweet, ginger, light spice. The flavour is a lot like pumpkin pie, some light sweetness, floral hops, sugary, some spice and pie dough. Medium sweetness in the mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes sweet, lots of pumpkin. Fairly one-dimentional but what do you expect from a pumpkin beer?

355ml bottle shared by <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=9658 target=blank>beerhugger, thanks Steve.
Opened on June 22, 2007.
No best before date.

Bottle. Aroma is very spicy and medium sweet, brown sugar and all spice with vegetables, cookie dough, mint, raisin, and strong ginger bread. Orange body with a fluffy beige head. Aroma more spicy than sweet, certainly dries out into a sort of rubbery mess by the end, with the dominant taste component reminiscent of the dentist’s office. Medium body and smoothness mingled with crispness. This is not the best pumpkin beer I’ve had, but there is something unmistakably charming about it - something natural, earthy, and organic. And pumpkiny!

Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale is a cloudy pumpkin-colored ale with an off-white, soft, foamy head that has good retention and lacing. The aroma is bready and strong in nutmeg with perhaps coriander, cinnamon and lemon zest. It smells very fresh and homebrewish. The pumpkin is not apparent in the aroma-- pumpkin bread, maybe. It has a medium light body-- reasonably smooth with a dusty, dry finish. All of the aroma’s spices are confirmed in the flavor. There is a thin woodenness to it, like toasted pumpkin seeds. The bitterness swoops in at the end of the swallow and lingers for a bit. The bitterness seems more from coriander than from hops. It tastes autumny without being abusive with pumpkin. Well-spiced.