Amber, small white head. Pumpkin Pie spice nose, subdued in palate. Poor carbonation

473ml can. As Crooked Tooth Nitro Pumpkin Ale. (7.0% abv). Pours a clear amber copper with a large, creamy, cascading, beige head that leaves soapy curtains of lace. Sweet, spicy aroma of bready pale malt, pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. Sweet, spicy flavour of caramel malt, pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon and grassy hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Medium body with a smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. A tasty pumpkin ale.

Bottle - Aroma is all pumpkin, cinnamon and nutmeg. Clear gold with a fluffy white head. Pumpkin is there although a bit artificial tasting. Nutmeg and cinnamon are in good balance if you like the pumpkin to shine. Absolutely no bitterness, which I would have liked just for some depth. Not bad, with a bit of tweaking could be very good. I will try this next year and see how they do.

Bottle from Comfort Inn Cold Beer and Wine Store, Richmond
Hazy copper color, beautiful, with small head. Aroma and flavor are mild; thanks to the brewer, it has more character of vegetables, hay and grass and very little from spices
(some dusty cinnamon and light aniseed though); it acquires a light feeling of heather, but overall it’s quite refreshing. Low bitterness.
A correct take at the style.

650mL bottle, pours dark orange with a small white head. Aroma of deep pumpkin, nutmeg and cinnamon. Flavour is essentially the same, with a lingering spicy pumpkin finish, although quite muted and generic. Decent.

Bomber from Brewery Creek
Orangey-beige colour, a bit dull, with a sparse head. I basically had to re-write my rating after it started to warm up. Initially, the aroma was all rotting pumpkin, but the taste was nicely balanced. But I’ll say this definitively - LET THIS BEER WARM UP BEFORE YOU DRINK IT!

The unpleasant notes in the aroma blow off with warmth and the beer emerges with a fine balance between malt, pumpkin and cinnamon. On the palate, there is a bit of a thick creaminess to the body when cold that thins out with warmth. This allows the impeccable sense of balance to show through just that little bit more. The pumpkin takes the lead, balanced with nutmeg and cinnamon, and rounded off by sweet, slightly doughy pale malts like a Portuguese roll. The finish gets a little flat on the palate, but that’s a minor quibble in the overall context of the beer. One of the better pumpkin ales I’ve had.