Trick Or Treat
Evil Genius Beer Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn|
Score
6.53
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Hey! This beer is haunted! Don’t drink it! Yes, I know it’s a dark, roasty porter with cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and chocolate, and it tastes amazing, but don’t drink it! It’s! Haunted! Fine. But don’t run to me when the walls of your fridge start bleeding.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to tulip.
Appearance: dark brown close to black with a thin off white foamy head. This head didn't stick around long as once it dissipated barely any lace was left.
Aroma: milk chocolate, some pumpkin flavoring, light vanilla sweetness, muted woody spices
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas together initially to a sweet quality but it does add in the spicy tone as it warms; slight pumpkin/chocolate finish
Texture: light bodied, sessionable, between being mobile and watery along the tongue - maybe a touch closer to mobile
Overall: an okay-ish beer, I think this body needs "beefed" up, and maybe some vanilla beans need to be used instead of in the back of my mind I was thinking the vanilla might be extract and also needs the spices of cinnamon and possibly nutmeg be allowed to be more expressive in this beer, just my thoughts.
Bottle to tulip.
Appearance: dark brown close to black with a thin off white foamy head. This head didn't stick around long as once it dissipated barely any lace was left.
Aroma: milk chocolate, some pumpkin flavoring, light vanilla sweetness, muted woody spices
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas together initially to a sweet quality but it does add in the spicy tone as it warms; slight pumpkin/chocolate finish
Texture: light bodied, sessionable, between being mobile and watery along the tongue - maybe a touch closer to mobile
Overall: an okay-ish beer, I think this body needs "beefed" up, and maybe some vanilla beans need to be used instead of in the back of my mind I was thinking the vanilla might be extract and also needs the spices of cinnamon and possibly nutmeg be allowed to be more expressive in this beer, just my thoughts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2026
at 12:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours dark deep brown to black. Beige head. Deep cocoa powder aroma. Pumpkin and cinnamon. Well done.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:23
8/10
It’s good but it just melts away…
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:05
6/10
Pretty thin on flavor.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Nov 2023
at 21:25
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can: Poured a dark mahogany brown with a tan head. Aroma is rich roasted malts, spicy, chocolate, pumpkin. Taste is pumpkin, coffee bean, chocolate, spices, bitter, rich roasted malts.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2022
at 02:33
7/10
Light pumpkin flavor with subdued roasted notes.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Nov 2021
at 19:53
7/10
Dark black bod sml creamy tan head. Spicy choc pumpkin roast arma. Spicy choc toffee pumpkin arma. Med bod mod carb. 7/4/7/3/15 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2018
at 18:09
6/10
Tried
on 11 Oct 2017
at 20:19
8/10
This is delicious. Slightest of pumpkin taste. Chocolate porter is wonderful.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2015
at 22:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, two centimetre tall light brown head. Aroma of rich allspice, coriander seed, cloves, anise, peat, earth and bunches of nutmeg. Medium to Full-bodied; Very rich and earthy flavour with a big toffee and caramelised sugar component and a lot of squash in this one - the body is way up there, and so is the earthiness and vegetable flavours at the beginning. Aftertaste shows a nice blend of spices, sweetness, earthiness, richness all with a pleasant alcohol flavour and complex sweetness. Overall, a beer fitting for the style and is plenty good, just not perhaps world-class. I sampled this thirty-two ounce growler fill from Whole Foods in Fair Lakes (Fairfax), Virginia on 18-October-2015 for a great price of US$5,00 sampled at home in Washington after my final training run for the USMC Marathon 2015 on 18-October-2015.
Tried
from Growler
on 19 Oct 2015
at 00:48