6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Ann Arbor Eisenhower, 3/20/16. Clear amber with fine floating particles, thin fizzy white head, fair retention. Aroma of squashy pumpkin and a bit of spice. The taste is pumpkin, vanilla, toasted malts, spice. Medium bodied, mild lingering spice.

6.5

Decent. Mild

5.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, Ca. Pours gold with a white head. Pie spice aroma. Near med body. Flavor is pie spice with a rather unpleasant undertone of veg. Yuck! Does anyone really think squash is an appealing flavor? I grant this is a pumpkin ale - probably the most true to the concept I’ve experienced. But pie spice is one thing, veg is another.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Sampled from the bottle. Pours a clear golden orange with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of pumpkin spice with sweet grain and a touch of earthiness. Flavor has a nice bread and pumpkin note with a hint of spice supporting.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12oz bottle. A really well balanced pumpkin ale. There is some spice, but nothing overboard. There is a pleasant hop bite too, which gives it more depth. The real pumpkin is there too, complementing the medium dark malts. Really solid offering. Clean enough that you’d want to go back for another. Fresh, well brewed.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

12 oz bottle from a six pack bought at the supermarket. Aroma is pumpkin pie spices with clove sticking out in particular; also, wet stone. Pours slightly hazy orange with a medium bone-white head that falls after a minute into a ring. Flavor is pumpkin pie laced brown ale. Taste is sweet followed by a mild bitterness. Creamy mouthfeel, somewhat thin. Average pumpkin beer, but it’s not bad.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 1/26/2016. Pours slightly hazy orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, brown sugar, light caramel, toasted bread, light smoke, and herbal/spice earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of pumpkin/spices, bready malt, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, brown sugar, light caramel, toasted bread, light smoke, and herbal/spice earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spice bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, brown sugar, toasted bread, and herbal/spice earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Moderate dryness after the finish. Good complexity, robustness, and balance of pumpkin/spices, bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitter/spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, lightly creamy/bready, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice pumpkin ale. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of pumpkin/spices, bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Best before February 10th 2016.

Served near room temp, it pours a clear 24 karat gold. Nice one finger head of foam that leaves a lot of nice lacing behind.

The smell is of Pumpkin and spices and are up to snuff when I compare it to other pumpkin beers that I have had.
Nutmeg seems to be the most prevalent spice that I can pull out of this beer.

The taste is true to the smell. Nutmeg dominant with the usual spices that give you the impression that you’re tasting real pumpkin. Caveat, I really don’t know if they use real pumpkin in this beer.

It has a creamy smooth mouth feel and is very drinkable.

This is not my favorite style of beer but this is pretty good.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Hangar on the wharf.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy golden orange color with a bar pour’s kind of slim white head. Little lacing followed from the dieing head.
The smell had a decent pumpkin pie aroma gently arranging itself around a swirl of vanilla pie crust.
The taste copied the smell and allowed a nice settling spice overcoating my taste buds.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but still good. There’s a slight sticky sweet pumpkin aftertaste.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good pumpkin ale I could do again.