Southampton Pumpkin Ale

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

Bottled. Amber coloured. Aroma of cinnamon and bread/cake. Sweet soft Christmas cake flavour. Medium bodied. Pleasant.

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)

On tap from Half Time: Dry pumpkin seeds impart nutmeg-y spiciness and join a few earthy, bitter hops in the fun...Subtle toastiness is perceived amidst the unfiltering...Easy drinking, flavorful and probably as good as it can get for a plain pumpkin ale...

Bottle. Pours amber with a small white head. Smells of amber malt and pumpkin pie spices with a splash of hops. I wish it had as much flavor. Tastes light and watery with lots of amber ale qualities, but next to nothing I’d associate with a good pumpkin beer. Tea like hops and some sweet malt is present, but where are the pumpkin pie spices? This is supposed to be a pumpkin ale. Wait a minute...as the beer starts to warm, some hints of spice pops out only to fade back away. Great as a session ale but a big disappointment as a pumpkin ale. Finishes semi sweet with some ginger aftertaste when the beer’s gone.

22 oz bottle. Deep golden/orange colour with a thick and lasting off-white head. Aroma of allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove but the spices are bright and clean. I don’t get a whole lot of pumpkin in the nose. Flavour is quite good, beautiful balance of spices over a clean bready malt base. Warming brings out some nuttiness as well that helps add a bit of complexity.

Bottle. Clear - filtered. Copper burnt amber color with a patchy off-white head. Decent creamed pumpkin nose, mildly spicy, with a mild caramel malt note as well. Fresh first taste, a little waterey, or thin, but flvor-wise it’s mild pumpkin spice, more pumpkin pulp than spice. Finishes a little thin and empty, actually.

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@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.