Pumpkin Ale
Blue Point Brewing in Patchogue, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Vegetable Regular|
Score
6.08
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 8/10/2012. Pours fairly crystal clear orange amber color with a nice 2 finger dense cream colored head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Good foamy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, caramel, toast, and graham cracker. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and decent strength. Taste of biscuit, caramel, graham cracker, toast; with light amounts of cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin, and other spices. Lingering notes of caramel, graham cracker, biscuit, toast, pumpkin, and spices on the finish for a short bit. Solid flavor balance with a decent amount of spices. Fairly dry on the finish with no cloying flavors. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly creamy mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with only a small warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very solid pumpkin ale. Some well balanced flavors, but it definitely could use more pumpkin and spices in my opinion. They took the safe route on this one to make sure it wasn’t overly cloying on the spices. As a result, this is very easy to drink and quite enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2012
at 18:18
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Uninspired pumpkin beer, light pumpkin pie nose and flavor, thin body, cream soda color, modest head.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2012
at 11:28
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle. Pours a crystal clear amber color with a large fizzy off-white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of pumpkin spice, pumpkin and a malty finish. The taste is slightly tart pumpkins, a significant dose of spice and a mild hop finish. Medium bodied, well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2012
at 21:50
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
On tap at a Scottish bar in NYC close to Times SQ. Thin white head. Slightly hazy amber pour. Some spiciness
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Dec 2011
at 12:29
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
from a screw top 12 oz bottle. drank directly from the bottle so i am assuming it is the color of any other punky beer. smells a little like pumpkin, just barely, of course wit spices. yes, a little bitter and medicinal like man punky beers, probably a style that rates up there with ipa as far as i am concerned. yes a beer but polluted with pumpkin and spices, like so many other punk beers. ok for t his type but not really anything special. i wish these punk beers tasted more like pumpkin pie. you know, so many breweries feel they have to fill that profitable pumpkin niche, i just wish they would focus on making good beer, not popular beer. overall, about average for the pumpkin style, on the finish there are no real negative ale attributes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2011
at 11:33
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Pours clear amber color with off white head. Aromas of cinnamon and nutmeg. Cinnamon and nutmeg flavor with a strange aftertaste. Medium body with average carbonation. Initial taste is good but I can’t get past the weird aftertaste.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Nov 2011
at 17:52
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
like something a macro would make, overly carbonated, synthetic taste and aroma. thank god i bought a single.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2011
at 16:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Good Beer NYC. An amber/orange coloured pour with a small white head on top. Aroma of pumpkin and spice. Tastes of pumpkin, spice, caramel, slight sweetness. OK for a pumpkin beer but give me the Southern Tier any day.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Oct 2011
at 16:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a medium caramel color with a huge foamy orange-cream head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was dryish and dusty with fairly strong cinnamon and nutmeg. The flavor was dryish and bitter with a strong cinnamon and nutmeg presence but little else of note. Medium length dry and spicy finish. Medium body. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2011
at 14:05
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Copper with a white head. Vegetal pumpking and light malt in the aroma. Medium body. Flavor is similar to aroma. The vegetal bit throws me off. Easy going but kinda boring.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2011
at 07:34