Johnny Rails Pumpkin Ale
Erie Brewing Company in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Vegetable Regular|
Score
6.47
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Orange color. Medium head. Aroma is pumpkin pie spice. Taste is pumpkin pie flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12 ounce bottle. Amber orange pour. Frothy beige head settles to a creamy cap. Mild pumpkin pie spices in the nose. Light, bready malt flavor is accented by notes of cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. Light bodied and drinkable. Some spicy hops on backend.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of malt, cinnamon, and pumpkin. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, cinnamon, and pumpkin, leading to a bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cloudy yellow small white head. Aroma is malty flowery mild. Flavor is exotic fruity and malty
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is nutmeg, spiced and slight fruity. Mild spiced, fruity and toasted. Bitter and slight herbal finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at Kurtkeller 017: Pumpkin-tastic 02 on 10/13/2014. Clear copper-orange color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily. Spotty lacing. Aroma of pumpkin spices and toasted malt. Medium-bodied with flavors of biscuit malt, allspice and nutmeg. Slight floral hops in the background. The finish is sweet with a cinnamon aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle (NYE share), 12/31/25. Caramel orange, tan head. Caramel, grain, light spice. Herbal and clean enough. Sweater, much pumpkin spicy toward the later part of the mouthfeel. Smooth and clean.
7/7.5/7/8/7.5
Location: 12 oz bottle from Shop Rite, 11/17/13
Aroma: The nose is clean and malty, some nutmeg/pumpkin pie spice, yeast, and a little fruit
Appearance: It pours an unclear golden-orange color with a small head and some mild lace
Flavor: The flavor is light-medium sweet, with plenty of spice, and a mild bitterness too
Palate: The body is light-medium and the mouthfeel, especially the finish, is mostly tingly and spicy
Overall Impression: This isn't a top of style example, but it does feel like a nice start. I like the idea of making a blonde with pumpkin spice, it just wasn't quite executed as well as I think it could have been. Still, it is plenty quaffable.
6/6/7/8/6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled 8/6/2013. Pours lightly hazy golden orange color with a small off white head with solid retention, that reduces to a lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with some moderate streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, brown sugar, gingerbread, toast, floral, and herbal earthiness. Nice aromas with good complexity and decent balance of pumpkin, malt, and spice notes; with good strength. Taste of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread, brown sugar, toast, floral, and herbal earthiness. Lingering notes of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, gingerbread, toast, and herbal earthiness on the finish for a bit. Good balance and complexity of pumpkin, malt, and spice flavors; with moderately watery flavor robustness and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth and watery moutfeel that is ok. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present on the finish. Overall this is a decent pumpkin ale. Lacking robustness of flavors, but has good balance and is easy to drink. A fairly enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at whole food wexford. Very good experience, a nice pumpkin beer for once. ot sure if there is really punkin in ther but its a tad darker than pale ale. Very mild friendly aroma of spiced punkin pie. Yes, at least some punkin spice in tere fer sure. Probably one of the better punkin beers IMHO, its well behaved and never over the top. Good co2 too. Odd muted pumpkin flavor mixed with leather. Overall good beer, I’m pleasantly surprised.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a dark caramel color with a trace white head that faded instantly and left no lacing. The aroma was sweet with strong nutmeg, moderate caramel and cinnamon and faint clove. The flavor was sweetish and malty with notes of toffee, nutmeg, clove and cinnamon. Medium finish and medium body. Ok.