Flying Dog Brewery The Gourd Standard

The Gourd Standard

 

Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn
Score
6.36
ABV: 6.7% IBU: - Ticks: 48
Pumpkin IPA in honor of Thanksgiving.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Pours clouded orange from bottle. Pumpkin cinnamon blending to citrus hops finish. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:28


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at home. Aroma is tons of pumpkin ale spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, ginger, grainy malt, leaves. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Body is medium. Not much of an IPA, pretty much straight up pumpkin ale with a little more bitterness in the flavour.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2025 at 15:33


3.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5

330ml bottle at home. Pours lightly hazed amber with a beige head. Aroma: sweet-ish, pumpkin, cloves, cinnamon buns. Taste: light to moderate sweet, light bitter, cloves, cinnamon & yet more cinnamon, herbal, a little pine. Bittersweet finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Spices overdone, it's an unbalanced mess

Tried from Bottle on 27 Apr 2019 at 10:15


6

Tried from Growler on 16 Jan 2019 at 10:45


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle (thanks marduk). Pours amber, somewhat gusher. Aroma is clove, pumpkin, , some sugar. Flavor is sweet and bitter, spices, clove, sugar, citrus. Finish is sugary and bitter. Overall: drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2017 at 14:08


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at Brewdog Shepherds Bush, London. A hazy amber coloured pour with a medium off white head on top. Pumpkin, spice, caramel on the nose. Tastes similar, pumpkin, spice, caramel.

Tried on 28 Jan 2017 at 18:13



7

Tried on 28 Dec 2016 at 20:14


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

A dark orange, a head is big and blond. Aroma has strong spicyness, ginger, sour orange, also some citrus and caramel. Quite balanced even the strong spicyness. Taste has same spices than in the aroma, some fruitness, pumpkin, strong body, nice bitterness to balancing. Medium+ bodied, nicely smooth. Good beer, dominating spicyness but that’s not all.

Tried on 16 Dec 2016 at 08:57


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle 12fl.oz. [ As Flying Dog The Gourd Standard ].Clear medium yellow - orange amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, pumpkin - pumpkin spices, moderate hoppy, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, pumpkin - pumpkin spices, caramel, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. Must admit that the combination IPA and pumpkin (spices) did not do the job for me at all :( [20161112] 5-3-5-3-7

Tried from Bottle on 08 Dec 2016 at 09:57