Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Murky orange-brown with a thin tan quickly fading topper leaving a ring of lace. Aroma of pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, sweet malt – basically like a spiced pumpkin. Taste of sweet malt, pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon and cream. Smooth and decent, tastes like liquid pumpkin pie. A step above most in the genre.

Draught at Pony Bar, New York
Amber color. It has the obvious cinnamon aroma, wax, perfumy, lightly soapy. Medium body strength (less than the alcohol content and the name let expect); light caramel flavor and evident cinnamon; ordinary bitterness; dry finish, still with some cinnamon. I’m bored by cinnamon beers.
Guys, next year try something else than cinnamon with pumpkin, maybe bitter almonds…

12oz Bottle: Pours rusty amber w/ a small biege head. Aroma has quite a bit of nutmeg. Basically, surprise, pumpkin pie spices. Flavor is rather disappointing compared to previous years. Very, very spicy w/ just a little pumpkin flavor. Not very well balanced, the spice overwhelms. The finish is quite dry & once again...spicy. Bummer...

Somewhat hazy, rusty amber with fizz and fluffy head. Nutmeg and cardamon jump out in the aroma, zesty and herbaceous. Tastes very spiced, a bit cloying but with a honeyed malt back. Touch of alcohol warmth on the way down.

12oz bottle. Pours a slightly hazy glowing auburn orange with a dense fine off-white cream froth 3.5. Aroma is a but peppery, spicy, spices are a bit diluted and somewhat melded together, hard to pick out individually, a bit sour malty. Flavor follows exactly, sharp spicy black pepper upfront, then sourish grains, a bit of pumpkin pie, that is about it, finishing with a little alcohol kick. Nice fluffy medium body just a slight hint of syrupiness, medium sharp even fluffy carbonation. Not as cool as I was expecting, but very drinkable and tasty at 8%.

Pours amber. Nose is cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper and sweet malts. flavor is weak pumpkin pie and big cinnamon spice. Not my bag. Not meaty enough in my opinion.

Straight from the 12oz. bottle, at Juno Beach: Nose of inflamed pumpkin, solid, traditional spice, and perhaps some sharpie pen... is sick. But the overall flavor pales in comparison. Needs more hops for balance, and also for fading the alcohol presence a bit. However, you’re drinking what Weybach wanted- an Imperial. Drinkability: Would pair extremely well with food, but standalone it’s just ok. Rebuy: Next year. #196 on 14112009, DG.

From dmac via trade. Poured a fairly attractive rich copper color that was clear with a solid off-white head that was about one-finger tall with average lacing. The aroma was loaded with clove and cinnamon and light citrus. The flavor was more cinnamon and clove over thin citrus hops. The malt that held it together was hard to find. These pumpkin beers all pretty much taste the same to me. Thin to medium in body.