Rumpkin
(has 6 batches)
Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular|
Score
7.49
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We wondered what would happen if a monstrous pumpkin ale, plump full of spicy gourdiness, were aged in fine fresh rum barrels to add suggestions of delicate oak and candied molasses. Rumpkin is what happened! This first member of the Annual Barrel-Aged Series was brewed with roasted pumpkins from a local Boulder County farm, and spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared in London - many thanks to Bruce. Pours unclear amber-copper with a bubbly off-white head. The nose has ripe pumpkin, caramel, some wood, orange. Medium sweet flavor with boozy kick, rich pumpkin syrup, some autumnal spices. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Hot finish, caramel, sugar syrup, rich pumpkin, bread. Heavy-hitting stuff but pretty tasty. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2014
at 09:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to Bruce? It pours deep mahogany brown with minimal head. The nose is wood, soft fruits, pumpkin, earth, spice, vanilla, butter squash, and candy. The taste is bitter-sweet, wood, squash, pumpkin, spice, vanilla, wood, light alcohol with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation, a big pumpkin bastard, but decent enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2014
at 08:59
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 2013 thanks to OKBeerFan! Pours hazy chestnut amber with a small quickly dissipating tan head that leaves a ring and some lacing. Aroma is rummy for sure, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, light funkiness, toffee, orange zest. Lots of pumpkin flesh present. Flavor has all of the above, fairly spiced, quite boozy. Sweet and sticky, only a bit of bitterness. Very rummy. A bit too sweet and spiced for me to really get into. Nothing even remotely subtle about this beer. Holy cow. Updated with a 2014 bottle thanks to Brian - same impression, but a bit more balanced perhaps.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2014
at 19:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty spicy woody pumpkin aroma. Sweetish malty spicy woody caramel and pumpkin flavor with hints of rum. Has a sweetish malty spicy woody pumpkin and rum finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2014
at 01:48
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
18.12.2013, 0,35l bottle sampled @ BBGTC Christmas tasting:
Small bubbly mediumlasting head. Aroma is spiced and boozy, caramel malts, dark sugar, alcohol, pumpkin, gingerbread, grass, oak, spices. Taste is sweet, caramel malts, dark sugar, oak, citrus peel, vanilla, toffee, pumpkin, gingerbread, alcohol. Longlasting bitterness, slightly dry mouthfeel. Very nice.
Small bubbly mediumlasting head. Aroma is spiced and boozy, caramel malts, dark sugar, alcohol, pumpkin, gingerbread, grass, oak, spices. Taste is sweet, caramel malts, dark sugar, oak, citrus peel, vanilla, toffee, pumpkin, gingerbread, alcohol. Longlasting bitterness, slightly dry mouthfeel. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2013
at 14:53
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sample at Kurtkeller 001: Pumpkin-tastic 01 on 11/22/2013. Hazy ruby-amber color with a medium frothy light brown head that diminishes steadily. Partial rings of lacing. The aroma consists of ginger, pumpkin and rum. Full-bodied sipper with flavors of pumpkins, charred marshmallow, vanilla and rum. The finish is boozy rum with a lingering baked pumpkin and vanilla aftertaste. Good beer all around.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2013
at 09:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a snifter. Pours tranlucent orange with no head, no lacing, and carbonation. Aroma is pumpkin and medium body. Taste is pumpkin, rum, oak, and a hint of alcohol. Not easy to drink, but if you sip it, it is pretty good. The alcohol is well covered for 18%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2013
at 17:35