Magic Hat Brewing Company Wilhelm Scream Pumpkin Ale

Wilhelm Scream Pumpkin Ale

 

Magic Hat Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular
Score
6.13
ABV: 5.4% IBU: 20 Ticks: 37
The call from fall. Wilhelm Scream is ripe with fall flavors of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg and caramel malts. Medium-bodied and the color of orange setting suns, it finishes similar to the way we finish summer: with just a hint of bitterness.
 

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5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle. Orange amber color with a really nice head that quickly disappears. Aroma is pleasant nutmeg cinnamon. Taste is kind Of weak. Not bad but not one of the best pumpkin ales out there.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 06:53


7

I was expecting better. Pretty flat.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:53


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

Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a cup. Clear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is pumpkin, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is pumpkin and spice (nutmeg and cinnamon).

Tried from Bottle on 14 Sep 2018 at 00:07


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Slightly hazy deep copper and bronze coloured body with a hint of a brown tint and a thin, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of cloves, allspice, coriander seed, light canella and a dash of funky yeast and perhaps the slightest nugget of squash in the mix. Light-bodied; Slightly funky and almost soured flavour at first with a big dash of spice showing allspice and then canella right at first with some earthier and nuttier flavours right afterwards and the tiniest bit of squash noticeable at the end. Aftertaste shows the funky and soured yeast flavours at first with a light body (no squash), minor spices and mellow sweetness at the very tail end. Overall, a pretty poor squash-based beer with more spices than anything else, but a funky yeast and soured flavour that was not great, but interesting at least, especially for the style. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from GlenRo Spirit Shoppe in Monroe, Connecticut on 10-March-2018 for US$1,00 sampled at home in Washington on 08-April-2018.

Tried from Can on 09 Apr 2018 at 06:59


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Bland orangy brown pour. Nosenis faintnpumpkin spice. Tastes of minor pumpkin, malt, leaves, faint nutmeg. This is bland for a pumpkin but not offensive.

Tried on 19 Nov 2016 at 14:30


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Part of their Night of the Living Dead variety 12-pak purchased in Vermont. Pours a clean amber colour with a beige head, average retention and minimal lacing. Aromas of nutmeg and light cinnamon. The toasted pumpkin is felt in the taste at first, with some bitterness in the middle and mild spices lingering. Not a bad pumpkin spiced ale with more hop than usual, taking over the pumpkin.

Tried on 12 Oct 2016 at 23:56


4.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Another fakey pumpkin ale from a brewer that should know better. Lots of spice, not picking up any pumpkin. But shame on me for drinking a pumpkin ale in January.

---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tried on 13 Jan 2016 at 21:42


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Not very good. Dark copper color. Cinnamon and nutmeg nose, a hint of pumpkin. Flavor less spicy, vaguely tinged with graham cracker, dry. Its alright.

Tried on 03 Dec 2015 at 18:28


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

Draft @ DAS BEST Oktoberfest, Baltimore. Pours a slightly hazy golden pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy pumpkin aroma. fruity malty spicy pumpkin and caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy pumpkin finish.

Tried from Draft on 01 Nov 2015 at 05:46


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

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark caramel color with a large foamy tan head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was sweet, tangy and bready with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove notes. The flavor was bready and malty with fairly strong nutmeg followed by clove and a touch of cinnamon. Long finish. Medium body. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2015 at 11:19