Southern Tier Pumking

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Lakewood, New York USA

Pours a deep orange caramel color with medium off-white head, minimal lacing. Aroma of pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, and multiple other spices. Flavor matches well, but just doesn’t come together right. It ends up tasting lot a thin mess of a beer that doesn’t blend well. Not the biggest pumpkin beer fan, but this isn’t much of a pumpkin beer either.

Caramel pour with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet pumpkin pie, perhaps with the whipped cream included. There’s some nice ginger spice in there too. The flavor is sweet, which you’d expect from Southern Tier, but there’s plenty of cinnamon and nutmeg spice in there too. It’s not too overly sweet though, which is a bonus. Finish is with some pumpkin spice. A little thin is the biggest shortcoming. Otherwise, a good beer.

The Pumking is absoutely THE best pumpkin beer I have ever sampled! From start to finish, this beer provides it all. It tastes just like a slice of pumpkin pie. The beer pours a dark amber color with a very small white head. The sample that I had left no lacing around the glass. The nose was full of pumpkin and spices. The flavor was absoutely delicious, like I said, tasting just like a pumpkin pie. A lot of brewers use the pumpkin as a seasonal speciality, but none have come close to capturing the flavor and the character like Southern Tier did with beer. This was literally like drinking a slice of pumpkin pie. Absoutely outstanding!

On tap at Mahars. This is liquid carrot cake, there’s no way to say it’s anything else. No hops or malt, just carrots and spice, alcohol is well hidden.

Bottle. Pours clear tanned orange with a medium to large white head. Aromas of warm pie crust, pecans, pie spices – ginger, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon Flavors follow the nose, but lean a little more towards the spices, picking up a little meaty pumpkin flavor and heavy on the nuttiness and nutmeg. Finishes with a bit of a spicy feel on the gums, and some lingering pie spice. ABV is really well hidden.

Call me crazy, but after breathing this in for a good 2-3 minutes, I figured out the strange twist in the aroma...it’s butternut squash! Fresh bomber pours a light orange with a thick, creamy off-white head that lasts and laces well. The requisite pumpkin rind and nutmeg aromas are there, with cinnamon taking a very distant back seat. The caramel malt is quite obvious in the flavor, as is the roasted pumpkin (a bit different than the pumpkin in most brews). Hops make an appearance, but are blended in with nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, ginger, and that crazy squash flavor! This was my fourth and final pumpkin of the night, and it takes the cake as expected. Paired the "angel’s share" of the bomber with a fudge brownie, and it got even better! After "Pumpkin Night" at the homestead, it’s obvious that this style really fits the weather in Kansas City right now, and you can officially call me a fan.

The pumking is the perfect beer for this fall! or for that matter anytime (although its a seasonal) it had a very small head and the color of the beer was perfect! the smell was great...it pays off when u smell most of ur beers but when u smell the pumking ur in for a real treat....this was definatly a beer that also has a punch 2 it as well...Enjoy.

Bomber. Pours a hazy orange with thin white head which goes quickly. Pumpkin pie with cinnamon in the nose, almost candy like. Flavor is an explosion of pumpkin and cinnamon with other spice and a touch of caramel, slightly malty base, could not really realize the hops at all. Very thin on the palate, but still needs to be taken slowly. Decent