Pumpkin Ale
The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly Beer) in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular|
Score
7.21
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A full-bodied, deep reddish amber beer made with pumpkin and butternut squash and spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon. Celebrate the bounty of harvest with this rich, malty ale and invoke the season of plenty.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
courtesy of tilley4 This one belongs up there with the best of pumpkin beers, and certainly is in my top 5 for the pumpkin style. Pours copper - orange with white head. Aroma is of course of pumpkin with a blend of other spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, clove) with light caramel. Overall everything, it left a nice sweet nose. Taste, not flooded with pumpkin but really well balanced with the other spices so none really come more across than the other. The mouthfeel was amazing with a light dough / butter cream palate enhanced by the spices, mostly cinnamon. Medium carbonation with nice tingly palate and a warming after taste.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2009
at 10:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear orange-red body, thin cream head. Pumpkin spice nose, sweet and sugary. Body with potent cinnamon, caked nutmeg and pumpkin. Robust and rich without being syrupy. Good.
Tried
on 27 Oct 2008
at 17:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours with small head that quickly recedes into a halo lacing. Color is clear dark orange-copper. Aroma is rather hefty with at first a hit of allspice. Then comes a little bit of a candied Christmas tree. Some light biscuit/pie crust in there as well. Taste is more of an even flow with the pie crust and allspice. Long aftertaste of spices (clove very vibrant). Mouthfeel is average but I with all the pie crust I would like a fuller body to go with the beer. With 8% I would have liked a slightly less attenuated brew.
12oz bottled on 9/10/08, New Belgium Snifter/Goblet glass.
12oz bottled on 9/10/08, New Belgium Snifter/Goblet glass.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Oct 2008
at 23:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at Schlafly Bottleworks. Very dark amber/brown color with a beige/off-white head that clung to the glass. Strong pumpkin pie spice aroma. Full bodied with creamy carbonation. It’s pumpkin pie flavor. Finishes with spice all over the mouth. My chardonnay drinking spouse loved it.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Sep 2008
at 08:37
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle from acknud! Nose of pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves; not as heavily spiced to the nose as some other pumpkin ales are; clear copper with a small straw head; flavor has some spices, light sweetness, pumpkin, and a dry pumpkiny finish. Excellent pumpkin ale!
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2008
at 22:57
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft sample at Schlafly Bottleworks. Aieeee! Pumpkin beer time again! This one is darker than the usual pumpkin color. Just a small edge of foam. Pie spices pretty clear in the nose and in the taste. Some sweetness here that does indeed suggest roast pumpkin in evidence.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2007
at 09:22
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
2006 Hop in the city Festival beer. Pour is a dark copper with a huge white head. Aroma is a very strong cinnamon with some cloves in there. Flavor is pretty good. Lots of cinnamon and spice with some cloves and maybe honey. Don’t get much pumpkin in this but the other flavors are strong enough to carry this over the top. A very decent attempt. I’m getting to like these pumpkin beers.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2006
at 14:20