Pumpkin Ale
F.X. Matt Brewing Company (Saranac) in Utica, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Vegetable Regular|
Score
5.84
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
pours amber and clear, fading white foam. smell is VERY spicy, soft carbo, puimpkin, very , very much spices, herbal. refreshing, sweet. i bought this for a very , very nice price at ’t waagstuk, but this was expired. not a problem with most beers? maybe it was with this one... i dont know how this tastes fresh, but old? wanst very good ... if i is was 2-3 year old vintage
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
355 ml. bottle kindly shared by Kraddel. There was quite a bit of discussion about what precisely the BBF date of this beer is because the final and most important digit of the year had been only half printed on the bottle. To me it looked like this beer was BBF 08/2010 which both the taste & origin story appeared to confirm to me, although this might have been due to predisposition bias because I saw as “0” as the final digit. Kraddel on the other hand firmly believed that this beer was BBF 08/2014. I did feel like I perceived degradation. Either way this beer poured a burned brown sugar amber with an off-white head. Smell carried oxidation for me personally, also picking up burned sugar, sweet malts, syrup, brown sugar, caramel, strong “old” cinnamon & cloves pumpkin spices. Tasted of sweet burned sugar blended with cola, cloves, cinnamon, sweet herbs, malts, grains & pumpkin spices mixed with burned sugar, half raw, half pumpkin pie filling, bit old, bitter herb body. Bit thinned, slightly richer on the carb. Quite peculiar, I attribute this to the age – I do appear to have a weakness for pumpkin beers & tacky, horror / Halloween imagery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours dark amber with a fading head.Nose shows authentic pumpkin, very vegetable-like. Cinnamon too, and nutmeg.Sweet flavours, the spices are pretty full-on with pumpkin taking the back seat. Could use some more bitterness.Nice moderate carbonation as body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Orange amber with a thin beige head. Smells sweet with cloves, nutmeg and brown sugar. Indistinct sweet flavours with what could be pumpkin (but precious little), pleasant spices (except the vanilla which is poor) and balancing bitterness. A little watery. Pretty basic stuff, comes across as a mildly spiced amber ale. But this is my first pumpkin ale drunk solely in the spirit of cross cultural understanding - I expected to really hate it but it was OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Yamaichi. Spicy nose, cinnamon, pumpkin, nutmeg. Not as rich as remembered. Slightly thin and mineral. Amber-orange color, low head. Spicy pumpkin flavor, somewhatnthin, though tasty. Body is way too light. Ok, but I think it used to be better.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
24th March 2010
Clear dark amber beer. Creamy malt and spice on the nose. Neutral palate. Pumpkin of course! Important thing here is it is not over spiced. Finishes smooth and a little dry. A reasonable example.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
355ml bottle. Clear reddish amber colour with small fading white head. Slightly sweet spicy typical Pumpkin Ale aroma with a touch of cinnamon and bubblegum. Taste is slightly sweet only in the beginning and changes to explicitly dry with continious spicy padding. OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home ... amber ... no head ... soft thin spiced pumkin nose... thin body ... mostly spiced dominated ... light pumpkin ... really not much too it .. and totally fails to keep up with the cigar city ... thiner and one dimensional
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
355ml bottle. Pours a copper/amber colour with a nicely proportioned head which does fall away though. The nose has roasted spicy vegetables - parsnip, or pumpkin, I presume - against a creamy malt background. The taste has more of the spicy vegetable but this time it’s all within a big toffee body. The palate is medium bodied in structure, with a creamy middle section texture and the finish is ok, cleaning reasonably well. Overall, this is good fun!