Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale

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

Very nice aroma as I crack open the bottle. Its that time of year again! Pumpkin pie spice hits your nose immediately. Pour is amber, with a small white head. Taste is of course, pumpkin spice but a little lighter than something like Buffalo bills. A bit thin, but typical for a pumpkin beer. Pretty nice balance overall. A very good Pumpkin ale.

Orange hazy pour off white head. clove and cinnamon aroma lots of lacing clove and nutmeg in the taste ... bitter at the end not a whole lot of pumpkin in the flavor not that great but not bad

Pours a hazy light amber/orange with little head. Aroma was full of pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, maybe a bit of nutmeg. Flavor was a bit weak in the pumpkin and thin in the body. I was expecting a bit more from the Smuttynose people.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange amber with a thick, creamy, long lasting off-white head that never went away. Nose is primarily caramel malt with an undertone of grassy hops, with just a bit of pumpkin in there, but not much. Taste is caramel malt up front with hints of nutmeg and cinnamon, with caramel sweetness emerging as the carbonation pushes past, only to quickly move to a combination of grassy hops, cinnamon and nutmeg, and a definite vegetal pumpkin note. Medium body, with medium carbonation.

8oz: RNH: Gotham Cask Festival: pours a golden red amber, mostly clear. Nose is very spice, slightly floral, some bitters. Tastes like a delicious, spicy pumpkin pie... right on. Chewing only brings out more flavor, crisp hoppiness, deep sugars, pumpkin, cinnamon, spicy. Nice. ***bottle on 10/3: spices all over the place! Enjoyed with fresh pumpkin tortelini, what a pair! rating goes up to 3.4***

Bottled on 8-11-04.Aromas of pumpkins and Spice and everything thats nice(chocolate malt,tease of hops,and even a tease of mint leaf)Very enjoyable, slightly hazy orange color with a nicley retained head and some pretty decent lacing on the way down the glass.Nice medium bodied mouth with spices and smooth abound.Smuttynose comes through on a style I usually don’t care for much.

Bottle - Nice copper pour with a decent white head. Aroma is baking spices: nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves. There’s a smell that alternates between Kool-whip and soap. Just a bit of pie crust. Taste is spicy and yeasty, with lots of dry, almost astringent hops on the finish. Leaves a soapy aftertaste. Way too spicy and dry for me, and the soap flavor really throws me. Not a fan.

Bottle. What better way to ring in the fall season than to tailgate at a UConn football game, and enjoy a pumpkin ale. Orange and clear with a decent head. Somewhat spicy aroma, almost like pumpkin pie, but not totally. Some nutmeg and brown sugar in the nose as well. The flavor has all the aspects of pumpkin pie, but they never come together all at once. It first hits your tongue sweet with pumpkin spices and nutmeg ... like the meat of the pumpkin pie. Swirl it around a bit, and you get a subdued sweetness along with a slight nuttiness. This must be the crust. It finishes very dry and chalky. It appears they forgot to take the stems off of the pumpkins before adding them to the mix. Overall, it’s rather good