Thirsty Dog Spiced Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Thirsty Dog Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Akron, Ohio USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Bottle. Pours orangeish with a little head. Sweet pumpkin dominates this. Better than most pumpkin beers. I hate pumpkin beers.

Bestway Greensburo - pours clear orange with a white head. Aroma is nutmeg pumpkin. Taste is sweetish. Palate is dry. Overall, solid, but not the best pumpkin ale I’ve had this season.

Smooth, a bit warming, nice ginger flavor/scent up front. This is a good pumpkin beer, doesn’t try to go all pumpkin pie on ya, Keeps the flavors clean and good.

12oz bottle thanks to JStax, thanks! Pours a clear copper with a thin white head and no lacing, aroma seems heavy on the spices but has a decent amount of sweetness as well, the flavor has a good amount of spices on the front end, not bad by any means, just not blown away by pumpkin beers anymore.

Poured from a 12 ounce bottle. Pours a lighter copper color with a nice translucency and a whitish head of foam. The aroma is fairly heavy on the spices with lots of ginger and cinnamon coming through. The ginger in particular is quite strong in this beer, and it makes it rather lively in the aroma. Some doughy, biscuity, pie crusty aromas make it in with the spices as well. For such a lively aroma, the taste is kind of out of touch...disconnected even. The aspects of the aroma that I really love, are quite muted on the tongue. It’s unfortunate, really. Had the aroma translated better to the taste and palate, this would be a world class beer, for sure.

Bottle. Pours dark amber with a small white head. Aromas of pumpkin and nutmeg. Tastes as good as it smells

Bottle. Pumpkin malt, honey, and light spice aroma. Slightly hazy light copper with a moderate creamy off-white head, nice lacing. Malty pumpkin, light honey sweetness, ginger flavor. Medium body and carbonation. Very nice malt forward pumpkin beer with well balanced sweetness and spice. One of the better pumpkin beers I’ve tried.

Bottle. Pours a hazy amber color with almost no head. Definitely heavily spiced in the nose. Taste is a little sweet underneath all the spices. Not my thing.

12oz bottle. Clear orange color, some bubbles on the side of the glass. Good thin white head. Smooth, lighter carbonation, medium body. Decent spice aroma - cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar. Hint of honey! Good spice taste, lightly sweet. As far as pumpkin beers at the 5% ABV level, I think this is soundly above-average. Definitely interesting.

Bottle at Carrboro bev. Hazy orange golden with light white lace. Nose is more pumpkin flesh than most, spice is more restrained, light honey sweetness. Flavor is similar. Surprisingly easy drinking, but I had just gotten off work. Will have to revisit a full bottle- a rarity for a pumpkin beer for me.