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Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale

Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale - Spice/Herb/Vegetable

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 Percentile 
71
overall
Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable

Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4013.26/5.03.26/5.0Autumn5%76.5Lager glass, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale is our homage to the craft and heritage of America’s brewers. Recipes calling for the use of pumpkins in beer date back to early colonial times, when brewers sought to extend their supply of costly imported malt with locally grown ingredients, such as squash and "pompions." In that spirit, we brew our ale with the addition of pumpkin to the mash, along with traditional spices to create a delicious American original.
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yankeefan21 (82), USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/516/20
Sep 5, 2007  
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.


 Tanker12 (121), USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/514/20
Sep 4, 2007  
Pretty standard pumpkin ale. I guess I was expecting more from this brewery


 TheEpeeist (1429), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/516/20
Sep 3, 2007  
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.


 NJJereme (261), Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
Sep 3, 2007  
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.


 mj (4973), Colorado, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Sep 1, 2007  
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.


 radiomgb (1920), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 31, 2007  
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.


 EithCubes (2140), Indiana, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/512/20
Aug 29, 2007  
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!


 yesyouam (587), Fairport, New York, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Aug 28, 2007  
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.



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