Punkuccino Coffee Pumpkin Ale
Elysian Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn|
Score
7.20
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours golden brown with a thin white head. Aroma of pumpkin, cinnamon, coffee. Taste has sweetened coffee, some spices, nutmeg. Palate has much of the same, lingering spice on the body. Good.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy, bright, dark amber brown color with a small beige head; aroma of coffee, milk chocolate; creamy palate, balanced flavor with a long, light bitter finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark brown almost black with a two-finger tan head. Aroma is pumpkin spice and coffee. Taste is pumpkin spice and coffee.
Good. Strong on coffee. Good mix.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz. bottle. Pours black, with an average, foamy, tan head. The aroma is mellow coffee, walnut, nutmeg, and syrup. Sweet and sugary, with a nice, earthy, savory bitterness. Medium body, thick, and nicely grainy. Quite good, with good balance and pleasant coffee notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
a: dark brown body | velvety thin off-white head
a: roasted malt | allspice | vanilla extract
f: bitter | nutty | brewed coffee
t: squash body | chocolate | rich spices
o: enjoyable | great-for-season | complex, even for style!
12 ounce bottle | Glen-Ro Spirit Shoppe: Monroe, Conncticut | 24-November-2023 | US$$1,13 (part of a mixed six pack) | sampled: 25-October-2024
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
(Thanks, Jim! Ozzy70) Bottle. A- Pumpkin spice, coffee, slightly earthy. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, beige head. T- Pumpkin spice, cocoa, roasty, bitter, black coffee. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, dry bitter finish. O- This was better than Dark O the Moon, but still weird. I think if I have a pumpkin beer that has to be the start of the show. This was fun and it was definitely a pumpkin and coffee beer but hard to love the flavors together. Loads of spice and some bitter coffee grounds. Just a lot to take in.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Single bottle from Binny's. Deep brown pour, persistent tan head. Smell of pumpkin and pie spice, comes up in nice proportion. Taste offers more pie spice, which overwhelms any coffee character. The coffee does turn up on the palate after a few sips. I'm actually getting a note of jalapeño pepper as well. Would have preferred some actual pumpkin to balance out the spice, which starts to get overdone further down the bottle.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Coffee helps to add a layer of complexity to the usual pumpkin beer spicing, but this is still a cinnamon and nutmeg bomb. Eh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. For some reason I was expecting a black or super dark brown beer. This is not. Lighter than that but darker than pale. Olfactory is a typical pumkin spice nose, similar of most other punky beers. Can't really smell the coffee. Taste is much more mellow than I was expecting, for some reason I was thinking it would be a pumpkin spice alky bomb with lots of bitter black coffee, it is not. It does have some pumpkin spice and it does have a tad of coffee but overall it seems to be balanced for a pumpkin beer. Yeah, I can stomach this stuff when I usually quite abhor a pumpkin beer session. I was just going for tick on this one but it turned out to be somewhat decent.