Southampton Pumpkin Ale

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

Pours orange with a thin white head that disappeared immediately. Pumpkin pie, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a little hop aroma (at first). Flavor is sweet, cinnamon, and nutmeg with a pumpkin aftertaste.

Bottle thanks to Cletus. Orange body with a white head. Aroma of pie spice, wheat, pumpkin, and vanilla. Taste is sweet, vegital, light wheat astringency. A bit watery thin.

12oz bottle. Pours clear, reddish-orange color. Off-white\ Light tan colored foam. The color of a slice of pumpkin pie. Aroma is a bit on the sweet side, very pumpkin pie-esque. Definite nutmeg and other P-Pie spices in the note. Flavor has the spice character as the aroma along with a sweet malt. Nice squash bitterness on top of a bit of pale malt. Light bodied. Overall, standard for a holiday brew. Much better than most others’.

Bottle. Pours clear amber body with no head and little lacing. Aroma is sweet pumkin candy. Taste is sweeter than other pumkin ales, with notes of sweet nutmeg, and cinnamon.

On draft at Flat Rock Saloon. Poured clear orange with a skim of tan head. Clean and crisp. Lager-esque with a mildly spicy finish. Nutmeg, pumpkin, and a touch of cinnamon. A bit thin bodied. Fairly standard pumpkin ale.

Thanks 17thfloor! Pours a copper amber color with a small white head. Aroma is very spicy, cinnamon, nutmeg, fresh pumpkin pie and a nice bitter of floral hoppiness backing it up. Flavor starts with a pronounced spice bread character, again very much the traditional cinnamon and nutmeg. Kind of gets a softer in the middle as a lot of the sweet pumpkin and caramel becomes dominant. Finishes sharp and spicy again with a light grainy character that lingers behind the spice. Nice medium body and a soft fizzy carbonation. Nice easy drinking pumpkin ale that doesn’t get too heavy handed

clear amber with a few very small particles, large smooth offwhite head with nice lacing. sweet aroma like marzipan, but not *that* sweet, almonds, pumpkin, yeaty spicy base below that, like if it was belgian. the 6% alc works well in the aroma, bittering it up a little. nice. flavor is herbal, watermelon, faint sweetish note that is a little flowery, alc bitterness. not much hops if any. sort of tasty but quite herbal.

Enjoyed from a 12oz bottle in a pub glass. The beer pours a nice medium amber color with a small white head that quickly disappears. The nose brings what could be quantified as a more intense version of the spices found in a pumpkin pie mix. Cinnamon, hazelnut, and a bit of clove. The palate begins with those same spices up front, however, they seem to fade relatively quickly. The palate is thin, but short of being insipid. The finish is clean. There is a slight touch of malt in the mid-palate, but I think the beer would be improved by adding more of a Munich-type malt character. Overall, a nicely brewed seasonal that has all of the qualities of a good spiced beer, but lacks that extra something that is needed for greatness.