Enlightenment Series Great Punkin
Renaissance Brewing in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Series|
Score
6.65
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"Great Punkin" Brewed with roasted pumpkin and a blend of spices to yield ’pumpkin pie’ notes and a deep red/orange colour. Lightly hopped with NZ Fuggle and fermented with ale yeast; medium body and moderate bitterness allow the flavour of pumpkin, spice and caramelized malts to shine through.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. A hazy red beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruits, pumpkin, and cinnamon. The flavor is sweet with notes of cinnamon and other spices, combined with malt, and caramel, leading to a dry spicy finish. A bit too much pumpkin for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2014
at 06:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
50 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden amber with a small white head. Aroma is spiced, roasted and caramelish. Caramelosh, toffee and toasted malty and spiced. Biscuity. Dark malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2014
at 05:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours reddish brown without much head or lacing, some sediment floating around on bottom. Opens with explosive carbonation - sprayed all over the place. Clove and pumpkin with some trace of malt. Finishes a little sweet. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2013
at 19:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours ruddy amber with a transient beige head. Aroma is rather strong pie spice; cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice and nutmeg - one or more is strong. Full bodied or nearly. Flavor is clove/nutmeg among other things. Sort of roasty brown malt. Quite smooth. Somehow it’s not as wow as many, but much more so than many others. Finishes less than dry with a little bitter, but more spice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2013
at 17:04
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Poured from 500mL bottle. Clear copper colour with foamy beige head. Burnt sugar and malt with mild pumpkin and spice aroma. Same flavour. The burnt taste didn’t really sit well with me - stood out a little too much and didn’t blend. Light body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2013
at 21:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle - Lots of pumpkin, a little nutmeg and grain. Muddy brown and a think brown head. Mellow pumpkin, a bit of spice and a bit of bitterness. As this warms, the spice becomes more pronounced and the bitterness fades. Overall decent, but no better or worse than most.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2013
at 12:55