Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

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?U 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.

Did they change the recipe? I remember last year’s brew being sweeter. Maybe that is because I tried last year’s in October, and this year’s version in August. Either way, this is one of my favorite examples of the pumpkin beer, and I found it a bit spicy, but still good.

12oz. Bottle: Lightly sweet aroma. Smells of pumpkin, spices, ginger, and dish soap. Poured orange in color with a small, off-white head that diminished quickly. No lacing. Hazy. Lightly sparkling. Lots of tiny particles. Flavor is lightly to medium bitter. Tastes of pumpkin, spices, cumin, mint, herbs, and medicine. Light to medium body. Slightly oily texture. Soft to average carbonation. Mediciny, minty, slightly dry finish. Not all that pumpkiny.

This beer pours a clear orange color with a decent head. it has nice smells of clove and pumpkin as well as mild hops. the taste is very smooth with hints of nutmeg and mild cinnamin. there is also a nice bitter after taste on the palate.

Pours deep gold. Notes of nutmeg and pumpkinon the nose. This flavors roll into the deeper nutmeg spice flavor with a muted pumpkin flavor. The finish give a nice hop like finish.