Pumpkick
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn Out of Production|
Score
6.43
|
|
What’s that bite of tartness doing in a pumpkin beer? Adding the unexpected kick of cranberry juice to brighten this traditionally spiced seasonal ale. Pumpkick is brewed with plenty of pumpkin juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, but it's the cranberries and touch of lemongrass that send your taste buds sailing.
Sign up to add a tick or review
6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This review was imported from my RateBeer ratings.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy, golden, tan with a white frothy head that dissipates slowly. Strong pumpkin, nutmeg, and allspice aromas. Taste is medium sweet with strong flavors of pumpkin, nutmeg, and allspice. There are lemon and citrus undertones too. Body is medium, texture is a little thin and sticky, carbonation is average, and the finish is slightly sour (lemony).
Overall, an okay beer whose aroma is slightly better than its taste. I’m not sure if I would buy it again, but I’m not unhappy that I bought a 6-pack to try.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy, golden, tan with a white frothy head that dissipates slowly. Strong pumpkin, nutmeg, and allspice aromas. Taste is medium sweet with strong flavors of pumpkin, nutmeg, and allspice. There are lemon and citrus undertones too. Body is medium, texture is a little thin and sticky, carbonation is average, and the finish is slightly sour (lemony).
Overall, an okay beer whose aroma is slightly better than its taste. I’m not sure if I would buy it again, but I’m not unhappy that I bought a 6-pack to try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2016
at 16:48
6.6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aroma is mainly pumpkin pie spices. Flavor is like news slightly tart a touch sweet and a bit thin. Overall it’s okay.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2016
at 23:33
5.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Cloudy golden color. Pumpkin pie aroma, dry-ish mouthfeel, mild cinnamon flavor, some apple touch.
At least it’s not heavy…
Cloudy golden color. Pumpkin pie aroma, dry-ish mouthfeel, mild cinnamon flavor, some apple touch.
At least it’s not heavy…
Tried
on 01 Sep 2016
at 12:32
6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy amber, thin head. Spicy, any pumpkin? This has a fair bit of sweetness, sugary, fairly spicy. Clean, basic pumpkin beer.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2016
at 00:42
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft - Spiced pumpkin pie notes. Cloudy amber with a small beige head. Pumpkin and light spice. Not too sweet or spicy but not getting any of the cranberries or lemongrass. Not bad for a pumpkin beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Aug 2016
at 22:13
6.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Normally I hate pumpkin beers (and August is still way too soon to release a fall seasonal). Anyway, I feel like NB had a good idea to add the cranberry juice, which to borrow from their commercial description, "brightens" it up. The little kick of acidity prevents this from being overly pumpkiny and the spicing is mercifully mild. Honestly they could probably drop the spices to make this just a little better. Light bodied, semi-sweet. Elements of all the ingredients are found in the aroma and flavor, with the pumpkin and cranberry more or less sharing equal footing.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2016
at 18:33
5.6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at St. Augustine's, pours a hazy orange amber with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of nutmeg and cinnamon upfront, with maybe a little pumpkin pur�e. Flavour is uninspired, with a lot of nutmeg and cinnamon. Not much actual pumpkin. A spice bomb. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Aug 2016
at 11:26
6.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
sour, malty with lots of cinammon. Not that great. Over spiced and not balanced
Tried
on 22 Dec 2015
at 07:00
5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Smells like slightly spiced pumpkin, not like pumpkin pie. Slight haze on a light brownish orange ale. Initially it does have a slight undesirable pumpkin spice to it but the cranberry tartness makes it a little more acceptable. Yes, almost makes me think it comes across a little wild. Just enough tartness to tart it up but not enough to make it artificial. Not too bad for a pumpkin beer. I’m not one to enjoy punky beers but this was not too unacceptable.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2015
at 12:37
7.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled at the brewery, 11/24/15. Clear orange color with an off white head. Lots of pumpkin pie type spice here with some underlying malt notes as well. Nice pumpkin overall.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2015
at 20:39