Southampton Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Southampton, New York USA

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.

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??