Enlightenment Series Great Punkin
Renaissance Brewing in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Series|
Score
6.65
|
|
Sign up to add a tick or review
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.