Southampton Pumpkin Ale

Bronze-golden with a huge, creamy and lasting head. The aroma is a bit earthy/damp cellar, light spices, malt and slightly sweet. The flavour has sweetness, a touch of damp basement, notes of malt, spices (mostly allspice and cinnamon) and in the finish I also find nutmeg. The spices kind of "burn" in the finish, and it’s a nice pumpkin ale.

A- Pours a clear tangerine hue with a lot of visible carbonation bubbles present. Very "fizzy" 2 finger head that dies out fast leaving behind no lacing. S- Smell is pumpkin with heavy spices, most notably nutmeg followed by cinnamon. Very sweet. T- Taste is super light. A bit of pumpkin along with a malty backbone but not nearly as distinctive as a lot of the other top pumpkin beers. Crisp and smooth but there just isn’t a whole lot of flavor. M- Light and crisp, very refreshing. D- The drinkability of this is by far the best of any pumpkin ale i’ve ever had just because it is so light. A lot of people write off pumpkin beers because they are too gimiky with tons of spices and pumpkin or cloying. This one is neither and it would be easy to knock a few glasses back. With that being said, I respected the balance and would drink it again if someone gave me one, but I wouldn’t seek it out. Glad to have had the opportunity to try it.

Not very impressed with this offering. Pours a pale orange color with off-white head. Aroma is of pumpkin and all spice. Tastes of pumpkin and spices. Not much carbonation and a nutty spice finish. Decent brew, but wouldn’t seek out again.

Bottle. Dark golden colour with a beige head. Aroma is spices, caramel. Flavour is fruit, malt, berries, caramel, spices. OK beer.

Bottle, 22oz. A clear, golden beer with a beige head. Spiced nose with cinnamon and nutmeg, rather sweetish too. Spiced flavor too, with caramel maltyness doing most of the work. Medium body, and spiced finish. Sure a drinkable beer, maybe it needs food to go with it. Anyway, it didn’t turn me on. (080301)

Bottle@Home. Nice spicy aroma with cinnamon, nutmeg and tangerine. Amber color, tiny beige head, no lace. Sweet, light bitter, rather fruity, cinnamon, laurel. Light sticky and flat. Not overwhelming yet interesting complexity. But still more like a soda or fruit juice then a real beer.

Copper of color with a fast disappering beige head. An aroma of sweets, spice, danish glögg and port. A flavor of spice and glögg.

A-Nutmeg,Cinnamon,Corrriander AP-Hazy Orange T-Like a crappy pumpkin pie P-Medium bodied coats very well