Southampton Pumpkin Ale

Poured orange with white head. Aroma of spice and some cinnamon. Flavor was mostly of pumpkins with some cinnamon. Finished with some spice.

22 oz bottle. Amber in color with a small to medium off white head. Aroma: pretty nice with pumpkin, and pumpkin pie spices as well as some nice caramel malts. Taste is pumpkin pie, spices, a good amount of caramel to back it all up. This was pretty well done, and very fresh.

Pours a translucent golden copper with a smaller bubbly off white head. Aroma of pumpkin pie spices, some pumpkin...like a pumpkin ale should. Flavors of the same with bready malt...I enjoy pumpkin ales and this one is well done.

Date: 10/18/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear dark copper, whispy beige head, strong pumpkin aroma that dominates the trace of cinamon, good pumpkin flavor, nice sweetness, just enough cinamon and spices to add complexity without taking over,
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Date: 12/11/2006
Mode: bottle

sweet cinamon aroma and flavor, enough pumpkin to provide a backbone, pretty balanced between the pumpkin and spices upon warming

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

22 oz bottle. Pours out a dark orange color with a yellow head that goes away really quick. Smell is sweet and full of pumpkin spice. Alot of allspice too, and just basically this smells like pumpkin pie. Taste is not surprising, full of pumpkins and spices. Pretty good as far as pumpkin ales go, and I think it has a bit more of a kick than the 6% it claims. Also this was nasty with fatalii peppers that I was eating on my food. I had to finish the beer after dinner. Good stuff though.

Bottle from Capone’s. Medium coppey orangy pour, with 1-finger or so off-white head. The aroma is pumpkin pie spice, pureed pumpkin flesh, some mild hops, pale malt, and citrus. Tastes pumpkiny, spicy, with a decent malt undercurrent. As pumpkin ales go, in my opinion they top out at about 3.7 or so, and this one is near that top out point. Very good for this style, but don’t bother if you don’t like the style.

(Bottle) Pours a clear burnt orange body with a thick beige head. Aroma of pumpkin pie, caramel, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Flavor of pumpkin; best pumpkin beer I have tried. Very drinkable.

Bomber consumed on 4/16/07
Very large head is frothy and collapses fairly quickly to cover, and eventually ring, leaving moderate lacing. Clear, filtered and a chestnut-auburn color to the body, with a beige-yellow head.
Pumpkin spices in the nose are diffused by strong, creamy pale malt sugars that slowly mix with caramel malts to produce a rather sweet, sticky nose ripe with cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. Pretty low on the clove, thankfully and without hardly any spicy astringency. More like pumpkin pie-flavored iced cream than actual pumpkin pie. Medium strength of aroma, with some light breadiness and hardness noted on the finish, no doubt from the medium malts and filtration. Some light alcohol vapors noted, as usual, from this horrible brewer.
Significantly sweeter in the flavor, with vanilla and sweet cream being laced fully with cinnamon and allspice. Light, peppery hops almost evade detection, while there is a lightly vegetal, pumpkin meat-like flavor (at least I’ll pass it off as that, it might very well actually be DMS). What’s best about the beer is that as it warms and breathes, the caramel malt deepens in to a very sweet, but not overbearing, toffee flavor with very light toastiness and almost a hint of acidity. Way too much carbonation, though, as usual, makes it difficult to enjoy and the overall texture is very showing of the filtration, being slightly watery on the end. Some light alcohol vapors noted.
No doubt the score is extremely overinflated due to the name on the bottle.