So when you find a beer you don't like, what do you do? You buy a bottle from Wine Warehouse of a variant of that beer. Pours mostly clear orange with a small head. Aroma is gourd, light spice, light coffee. Flavor is heavy cinnamon and nutmeg, a little gourd, some coffee. You know, this isn't bad, and from what I remember better than the original. Finishes bitter on the back end.

Lesson one in how to take a great beer and turn it into a mediocre beer. +++ Sampled on draft at the Pittsburgh brewpub this beer poured a dark copper color with a huge foamy orange-white head that lingered and left great lacing. The aroma was brewed coffee, dust, cinnamon and clove. The flavor was brewed coffee, clove cinnamon, a bit of and had some toasted caramel. Very long finish. Moderately full bodied. Disappointing.

On draft at Ice Cold Beer Here 2 in Milford. The pour is the same as regular Pumking. Burnt orange with an off white head. The aroma has heavy pumpkin pie spices with some coffee. The flavor follows suit with a lower coffee flavor than I expected. The spices still seem to dominate. Actually, the coffee seems to muddle things even more. Oh well... a little bit of a disappointment, but it was a fun beer to try.