$2.30 can, Wine Warehouse. Pours murky burnt orange with a soft beige head. Aroma is cinnamon, nutmeg, rum, pumpkin goo, vanilla. Flavor is lighter than the nose: pumpkin puree, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, light rum notes, black pepper. Not overly spiced and focuses on the actual pumpkin, but this is not an unspiced brew. Drinks smooth and creamy.

Snallygaster 2017. Just sour pumpkin. Light spice, light sour earth. Thick. Meh.Dullsville, USA. 737315

Pumpkin, allspice aroma. Clear copper, medium head. Pumpkin, allspice. Medium body, easy carbonation. No rum character.

Golden-amber. Sweetish, light bodied, with a spicy, woody note and some vanilla. On the palate, similar character. Balanced, though wouldn't know the barrel is rum, and it really doesn't come across as anything other than a pumpkin beer.

Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Pours cloudy orange brown with a lasting creamy off-white head. Aroma of pumpkin, orange, vanilla, light spice and metallic notes, caramel and biscuit. Moderate sweetness, light sour. Medium body, some stickiness to texture, with average to soft carbonation.

355ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, copper-ish, dark amber colour with average, frothy to creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Spicy pumpkin aroma, lots of clove, a touch of ginger, orange juice and cola. Taste is moderately sweet, has notes of pumpkin and clove, ginger, a mixture of orange juice and cola reminds of ’Spezi’ or ’Mezzo Mix’; a cautious touch of rum is present as well; lively and refreshing, likewise smooth and muted carbonation.

Crisp amber and copper coloured body with a thinnish, two centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of light squash, spices, grain and a bit of caramelised sugars. Medium-bodied; Strong rich squash flavours that show some light spicey flavours, a touch of grain and a little yeast flavours - but no real flavours of any barrel aging nor vanilla. Aftertaste shows some thinner malt flavours with no real squash finish, a touch of spices and sugars, but fairly mild, especially for the style. Overall, a pretty mediocre beer for the style, definitely less hearty and flavourful than expected. Not worth buying unless you like lightly spiced brown ales - since this didn’t have any real complexities from the squash or the aging process. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Beverage Warehouse in Winooski, Vermont on 19-September-2016 for US$2,30 sampled at home in Upstate (New Paltz), New York on 24-November-2016 - Thanksgiving!

Can pour into shaker pint glass from Greg & Jane’s Beer and Wine. Appearance is cloudy dark orange-brown with effervescent sparkle at the edges of the glass, finger-width beige fizzy head with fair retention and some nice sudsy, leggy lacing. Aroma is sweet pumpkin spices. Taste is lightly sour initially with middle strong burst of sweet pumpkin spice, faintest notes of oak. Sadly, not getting vanilla or rum. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with slippery texture, lively carbonation and mostly sweet finish. Overall, this is a pretty standard pumpkin brew, despite all of the extras that could have made it really something.