Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale

Poured a clouded rusty orange with just a thin white head. Big time spicy/nutmeg aroma, except it almost has a twist of lemon it it. The flavor parallels ... almost citrusy lemon-lime-iness at first, and then the undertow of pumpkin.

Tap- I was helping them blow this keg out. Light orange color. Not much head on this one. Hints of cinnamon, honey, cloves, and brown sugar spices. Starts off a bit sweet and has a dry finish to it. I also had a secon one with some cinnamon sugar around the rim. Great holiday beer.

Cloudy amber. Smell of flowers, pumpkin, ginger, clove, hops and sometimes laundry detergent. Taste of pumpkin, cinnamon and a very heavy tart bitterness at the end. It smelled a lot better than it tastes but still one on the good pumpkin beers out there.

bottle-pours peach/orange with a sudsy white head around the rim of the glass. big spicy nose with notes of opened pumpkin, veggie, and cinnamon. nice nose! comples flavors for the style-afformentioned spices, pumpkin, other cooked veggies, light grainy malts and some earthy hop notes with a touch of shoveled earth. pretty complex as most smuttynose beers tend to be. body is nice and crisp. definately a pumpkin i could drink alot of. smuttynose has not dissapointed me yet!

Thanks to Jeff for this one. Nose is right out of Grandma’s kitchen when she was baking a fresh pumpkin pie. Well almost, but loads of spices clove for sure and maybe pumpkin,but tastes very nice. This is a very nice Pumpkin brew.

Bottled. Beautiful appearance with vibrant amber orange color. Smell of crisp pumpkin and spice. The beer was very hoppy with a light spice aftertaste. As the beer warmed, the pumpkin and fruit flavor became more apparent. Average body with a light burn. Overall an average beer.

Aroma full off spice and pumpkin. Nice thick off-white head. Orange body with mild carbonation. Pretty good pumpkin flavor. Lingering spice and hop finish. Good stuff.

I had not enjoyed the pumpkin ales that I tried before this, but something in the air prompted me to pick this one up. As soon as I opened the bottle I was intrigued. A pumpkin pie spice aroma is very prominent. I was afraid the taste would be too sweet, but it actually had the subtlety of fresh natural pumpkin. Most important, though, was the strong balance of pumpkin and hops. I couldn’t get enough of this.