JosephsBrau Howling Gourds
Trader Joe's in Monrovia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Gordon Biersch Brewing CompanySpiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn
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Score
6.22
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Amber in hue, with spice a’plenty,
Sev’n percent ABV, IBU four and twenty.
The pumpkin flav’r plentiful,
Vanilla makes things round.
You’ll smile with every sip or two,
And listen for the sound.
The sound of Howling Gourds is heard
Above the Autumn din.
Carved into Jack O’Lantern smiles,
Their screams will guide you in.
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stevoj (18327) reviewed JosephsBrau Howling Gourds from Trader Joe's 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz can from Trader Joe's. Golden pour with thin white head, lacing. Aroma features light pumpkin pie spice. Taste switches gears to pumpkin flesh, squash notes. Pretty solid outing.
dwest (2949) reviewed JosephsBrau Howling Gourds from Trader Joe's 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottles, shared with friend. Pretty wild how much it tasted and smelled like a pumpkin. cool to try, not sure i would ever seek this out though.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed JosephsBrau Howling Gourds from Trader Joe's 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Deep copper coloured body with a very nice, three to four centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of tons of allspice, canella, nutmeg and coriander seed with a bunch of malt notes in the scent as well. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong spice flavours dominate with the nutmeg front and centre along with a dry grainy profile from the malts with a lot of complexity from the spices and seemingly a bunch of brown sugars to balance out the spice notes nicely. Aftertaste shows predominately the spices with a lot of flavours throughout with a lot of sugars, a lot of spices and a bunch of malts - this is balanced nicely and despite there not being much squash richness or body, the rest of this is great! Overall, a very nice spiced beer that reeks with nutmeg and canella and the sugars support nicely, as do the malts. A great beer and much better than I expected from Trader Joe's! Definitely worth buying for the price and probably for how readily available it is! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Trader Joe's in Glen Allen/Short Pump (Richmond), Virginia on 26-September-2022 for US$1,34 sampled in my hotel room here in Novi, Michigan with two of my kids on 21-October-2022.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the source. Hazy cloudy bright lemon yellow color with a tightly bubbled white head. Earthy spicy pine and citrus countered with a sweet bready maltiness. Pretty nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
This beer smells of pumpkin and pie spices. The flavor is somewhat sweet with spices, pumpkin, malt, alcohol, and mild hops bitterness. Fairly good.
trapped (8300) reviewed JosephsBrau Howling Gourds from Trader Joe's 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, from Trader Joes. Pours clear light amber with small foamy whitish head, medium carbonation, mildly sweet pumpkin flavored malty taste, thin body, long finish with prevailing pumpkin flavor. Not bad for the style,
radagast83 (13490) reviewed JosephsBrau Howling Gourds from Trader Joe's 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
12oz bottle. Bought a six pack, d'oh. Just a touch too thin. Spices are actually pleasant for the most part, but it's missing a thicker body that could help pull this pumpkin beer off. Clove, cinnamon.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
355ml bottle, drank on 15th Dec 2019 while in California. Clear and clean amber body, plenty of carbonation bubbles rising through but no head what so ever. Sweet pumpkin aroma and taste. I am no expert on Pumpkin ales, but this is by far the worst I have come across; just awful. Too sweet even for my sweet tooth.
bb (18428) reviewed JosephsBrau Howling Gourds from Trader Joe's 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Amber beer with a dark cream head. Pumpkin pie spice and light vegetal aroma. Nutmeg and pumpkin pie spice flavor with caramel. Medium bodied. Pumpkin pie spice and caramel linger with light vegetal notes.