Southampton Pumpkin Ale

Not as good as Cisco Pumpkin Ale. I wanted to love it because I’m a huge fan of the pumpkin ales but there was just something missing for me. Maybe next year...

Bottle: Vibrant orange, translucent, huge light beige head, fairly nice lacing, light carbonation.   Nose of allspice, and slight pumpkin.   Spicy on the tongue, somewhat dry, dull in the sense that it is not as sweet as others.   Full bodied, moderate to full mouthfeel.   Clean finish, lingering spices.   Not fake at all but could use some sweetness to bring out the spices a bit.   Thanks to Dickinsonbeer for the bottles!

Nice looking beer - bright copper with a creamy orange tinted head. Good lacing. The aroma has the usual pumpkin pie spices - allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon. Can’t smell any malts. Fortunately, the caramel malt pushes forward in the flavor and the spicing is subdued. The finish has a mildly earthy bitterness. Not bad for the style.

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Bottle sampled on 10/23/06: Pours a clear copper amber with a thin ring of off-white head. Has a big cinnamon sugar and pumpkin aroma. Starts with a semi-sweet candy apple maltiness and pumpkin pie flavor drying some toward a toasty spiced finish. A nice pumpkin beer.

of all the pumpkin beers that bill themselve as being liquid pumpking pie, i think this one may come the closest to living up to that billing....deep copper color with a thin layer of persistant white head...big aroma of pumpkin, cinnamon and allspice...that is usually where alot of pumpkin beers end their run, but this one actually keeps that series of sensory inputs running through the flavor and a very nice spicy aftertaste. easily in the top tier of pumpkin beers...now all i have to do is figure out why i had to come to western ohio to buy a beer that is brewed on long island??

Copper colour with a small off white head. Malty, sweet and cinnamon spicy aroma. Cinnamon spicy flavor with a caramel seet note. Light dry and spicy finish.

Bottle from Styles. Medium amber colored, perhaps a slight bit of haze. Fair sized off-white head lingers and fades to a layer over the beer that bulks up around the edge of the glass. Nice lacing. Aroma is spicey, lightest hints of clove, nutmeg and cinnamon. A bit of pumpkin/squash in nose. Medium bodied. Somewhat dry. Spice is a touch sharp about halfway through the glass. Decently done and worth a try.

650 ml bottle

This has been sitting in the cellar for a while now. Since it is not likely to age all that gracefully I decided to pop it open now. Doing triage on a cellar is much easier when you have more than just barleywines, imperial stouts and Belgians. If somebody had taken pumpkin pie and converted it to a liquid this is what it would probably taste like. Unlike some ’pumpkin’ beers this one actually deserves the name.

Aroma / Appearance - A huge pillowy head soon settles down to about two fingers in height. Underneath is a cinnamon colored transparent body. The nose is exactly like that of a hot pumpkin pie, fresh from the oven and topped with whipped cream and nutmeg. There is not much else going on but on the other hand what should one expect from a beer like this? It is easy to close the eyes and be back on a cool fall day after smelling this.

Flavor / Palate - While a little thin bodied, it is just as dense as any other beer in the class. Nutmeg, pumpkin and vanilla ice cream form a sweet gift that is topped with chocolate syrup. It falls apart quickly but lingers just long enough to capture the essence of a Thanksgiving dessert table. This was so esy to drink the bottle was empty before I knew it. I could see sharing this with people who are not on sites like this to expand their horizons.