Pumpkin Ale
Badger Brewery (Hall & Woodhouse) in Blandford Forum, Dorset, England 🏴
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.82
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
My first Pumpkin Ale of any sort and certainly the first I’ve ever heard of brewed in the UK. Brown 500ml bottle, best before July 2008, drank Sept 2007. Poured into a pint sleeve glass. Cloudy and moody looking, dirty brown, rusty colour. Large off-white foaming head. It doesn’t look very appertizing at all. The bottle claimed it was a golden amber ale, golden it is not. The aroma it is claimed will be of roasted veg and peaty malt, I got bad apples and yeast smells. It is "supernaturally spiced" with hints of roast pumpkin, cloves and peat. The label goes on to say I should find a fruity, sweet, herbal and bitter taste. It made me burp! The taste was of fizzy, old, off cider and a used towel. Not very beery at all. A nasty sweetness arrives as the beer warms up in the mouth, apple pie without the cream. This bottle was either off, or I have missed the boat and don’t understand the beer at all. This can’t be the same type of beer so many Americans crave for, or am I out of step with my RB’s and BA’s over the pond?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Amber with an off-white head; the aroma is of cloves, very like a weissbier, not trace of pumpkin; rather oily texture with more spice and some roasted vegetables; yet more peppery spice on the finish. Drinakable but rather boring.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home ... Nice golden orange ... pungent almostspicy belgian triple like hop, barest hing of pumpkin in nose... sweet , definite pumpkin tones... quite fruity with a little spice. Nice enough but gets a wearing
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
500ml bottle from Tesco. Amber colour with thin white head. Kind of a gingery spicy beer. Actually not too bad at all. I kinda like the spice. I shouldn’t, but I do and I don’t care. 3.5/5.0 Re-rate Sainsbury bottle 20th September 2008. Awful. Yeasty and spice aroma, nothing much in the body, poor finish
Fin (18365) reviewed Pumpkin Ale from Badger Brewery (Hall & Woodhouse) 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
[i] Bottle from Tesco Abingdon, brought along to Towersey Festival from Bev, Oxford City CAMRA, cheers Bev[/i] Has a spicey smell definately cloves in there, little bit too sweet for me, quite tasty but not one I would rush out to look for again.